Re: Maintenance Windows for Networks Spanning Multiple Time Zones

[Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu]

On Mon, 22 Jan 2001 17:20:03 EST, "Brett L. Hawn" said:
> Pardon my intrusion, but common sense tells me: at a time where you will
> have the least amount of impact on the least amount of people.

I'll play devil's advocate here.  Do you want to minimize the impact on
the end users, or the number of phone calls generated to the NOC? ;)

And yes, we're alledgedly a one time zone shop.  But I've gotten complaints
from Europe when our 3AM window for Listserv updates impacted *their*
ability to post stuff *right now*.  Didn't I *understand* that this was
*important* and that it was already *10AM* there? ;)

And I believe the *original* question was (or at least intended to be)
"how do I *calculate/guess* when I'll have the least impact on least users".
And *that* is probably still in the realm of black magic....


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                                Valdis Kletnieks
                                Operating Systems Analyst
                                Virginia Tech

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