North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Maintenance Windows for Networks Spanning Multiple Time Zones
> > 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? ;) > > > > One of doing this is to split into several zones. We have one for US work, > one for transatlantic and one for Europe. This increases the complexity > but tends to lower the impact per maintenace session. > > - kurtis - Too complex. Back in the Day... :) We scheduled our maintaince windows between 09:00 and 10:00 local time. Our techs were awake, we could get vendors on the phone and parts shipped if needed. --bill
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