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Scheduling a maintenance window
A maintenance window records planned work — its timing, what it affects, and any failover notes — so everyone knows what's happening and when.
Scheduling a window
- Select Maintenance in the sidebar.
- Select Schedule maintenance.
- Complete the form:
| Field | Notes |
|---|---|
| Title | e.g. Network switch firmware upgrade |
| Start / End | The scheduled window |
| Status | Planned (default), In Progress, Completed, or Cancelled |
| Description | What work will be performed |
| Redundancy / Failover Notes | e.g. Traffic fails over to the backup link |
- Select the affected sites, devices, servers, and services from the checklists.
- Select Schedule.
Previewing impact
Before saving, select Preview impact. JOATOS follows your dependency map and shows any additional items that would be affected downstream — so you can see the full blast radius of the work. When you save, that expanded scope is recorded on the window.
Managing a window
Maintenance windows are grouped into Upcoming and Past. Each card shows the title, status, timing, duration, and affected-item counts. On a window's detail page you can:
- Start it (Planned → In Progress)
- Complete it (In Progress → Completed)
- Edit or Delete it
The detail page also lists every affected site, device, server, and service, each linking to its page.
What a maintenance window does
A window is a scheduling and communication record: it documents planned downtime, its scope, and failover arrangements, and surfaces on the Status page's scheduled view. It doesn't automatically silence alerts — to pause monitoring on a specific device during work, set that device's status to Maintenance (see Adding a device).
Notes & tips
- Use Preview impact on anything non-trivial — dependency expansion often reveals services you didn't realise were downstream.
- Record failover notes so on-call staff know what should happen if something doesn't come back cleanly.