Maintenance Windows for Networks Spanning Multiple Time Zones
bmanning at vacation.karoshi.com
bmanning at vacation.karoshi.com
Thu Jan 25 00:37:06 UTC 2001
> > 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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