Maintenance Window Scheduling

Last Modified

Wed Nov 01 03:46 GMT 2017

Description

some clarification before updating our maintenance windows.
Sometimes you may want to push patches to a select group of devices on 1 day and then push to the remaining devices the next day.

Environment

  • N-able N-central

Solution

  • This is not an issue if you set up your Maintenance windows to be weekly.
  • If you are running them monthly this can be trickier.
  • If you select the first group to run on the Saturday for the third week of the month, it will run on the third Saturday every month
  • If for the second group you select Sunday and the third week of the month, it will run on the third Sunday of every month.
  • In most cases these will run Saturday and then the Sunday after it.
  • However if the month begins on a Sunday then the third Sunday will actually fall a week before the third Saturday.
  • For an example of this look at October 2017 in your calendar.
  • To avoid this from occurring you could set the first group to run on the third Saturday every month and the second group to run on the forth Sunday every month.
  • This way the Saturday group would always be run first. Some months the Sunday group would be the day after some months it would be a week after.