Re: Maintenance Window(s) Procedures

["Foerst, Daniel P." <FOERST () CUA EDU>]

We have had scheduled downtime for Thursday mornings and the third
Sunday of every month for at least 9 years. The Thursdays go back about
20 years I think. With more classes being offered on weekends and
distance learning, we are now faced with having to decrease our
maintenance time, perhaps abandon our Sunday maintenance. During these
periods we will apply patches if necessary, perform reboots, network
work, equipment installation and removal, etc. Only under dire
circumstances do we ever do anything outside of our maintenance periods.


Daniel Foerst
Manager, Networks & Security
The Catholic University of America
Washington, DC 20064 
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Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2008 12:39 PM
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Subject: Re: [SECURITY] Maintenance Window(s) Procedures

At 12:18 PM 6/5/2008 -0400, Cal Frye wrote:
> For purposes of this question, I guess I assumed "scheduled 
> maintenance" equals "scheduled downtime" -- items that don't result in 
> downtime don't have to be scheduled.

      Does anyone schedule routine maintenance that doesn't require
downtime but happens (or should/could happen) on a routine schedule?
I'm thinking of disk defrags, AV scans, etc.
-Eric



Eric Case, CISSP  <ecase () Arizona edu>
Information Security Officer
College of Engineering   <http://www.Engr.Arizona.edu>
1127 E James E. Rogers Way Room 200
Tucson, AZ 85721-0020
Mobile Phone 520-275-6436


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