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Re: Maintenance Window(s) Procedures
From: "Foerst, Daniel P." <FOERST () CUA EDU>
Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2008 13:59:32 -0400
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 -----Original Message----- From: The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of Eric Case Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2008 12:39 PM To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU 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 -- BEGIN-ANTISPAM-VOTING-LINKS ------------------------------------------------------ Teach CanIt if this mail (ID 197979797) is spam: Spam: http://canit.cua.edu/b.php?c=s&i=197979797&m=5666cb18a1cf Not spam: http://canit.cua.edu/b.php?c=n&i=197979797&m=5666cb18a1cf Forget vote: http://canit.cua.edu/b.php?c=f&i=197979797&m=5666cb18a1cf ------------------------------------------------------ END-ANTISPAM-VOTING-LINKS
Current thread:
- Re: Maintenance Window(s) Procedures, (continued)
- Re: Maintenance Window(s) Procedures Brian Paige (Jun 04)
- Re: Maintenance Window(s) Procedures Daniel Bennett (Jun 04)
- Re: Maintenance Window(s) Procedures Basgen, Brian (Jun 04)
- Re: Maintenance Window(s) Procedures Ray Bruder (Jun 04)
- Re: Maintenance Window(s) Procedures Cal Frye (Jun 04)
- Re: Maintenance Window(s) Procedures Don Nightingale (Jun 05)
- Re: Maintenance Window(s) Procedures Buz Dale (Jun 05)
- Re: Maintenance Window(s) Procedures Cal Frye (Jun 05)
- Re: Maintenance Window(s) Procedures Eric Case (Jun 05)
- Re: Maintenance Window(s) Procedures Todd Clementz (Jun 05)
- Re: Maintenance Window(s) Procedures Foerst, Daniel P. (Jun 05)
- Re: Maintenance Window(s) Procedures Buz Dale (Jun 05)
- Re: Maintenance Window(s) Procedures Cal Frye (Jun 05)
- Re: Maintenance Window(s) Procedures David Gillett (Jun 05)
- Re: Maintenance Window(s) Procedures Cal Frye (Jun 06)