Scheduling Downtime
About this task
Scheduling downtime allows you to perform maintenance on an environment or related system. You can create downtime rules for project configurations that stop or suspend all enabled orchestration jobs in that project configuration for a specified duration of time. The project configuration does not have to be undeployed to create or edit a downtime rule. Downtime rules can occur once or repeat at specific intervals. You must have administrator or publisher permissions to create, edit, or delete a downtime rule.
By default, downtime rules are stored in GMT time zone. If an administrator modifies the system clock from GMT to another time zone, downtime rules are executed at the same absolute time. For example: You create a downtime rule to stop all orchestration between 4:00pm - 4:15pm GMT. The administrator then modifies the system clock to display PDT. Your downtime rule is modified to now stop all orchestration between 8:00am - 8:15am PDT. To execute the downtime rule at 4:00pm - 4:15pm PDT, you must edit the downtime rule. Times differences caused by daylight savings are automatically adjusted.
If the environment is offline when a downtime rule is scheduled to occur, all unexecuted rules are identified and executed in the appropriate order when the environment returns online. After all the backlogged downtime rules are executed, you regain control to modify the deployment state of a project configuration.
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Edit Downtime Rules
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Deleting Downtime Rules
Procedure
- From the Navigation pane, select . The Project Configurations page is displayed.
- Click the project configuration, which contains the downtime rule you want to work with. The Configuration Details page is displayed.
- In the Scheduled Downtime section, select the downtime rule you want to delete. The Delete Rules confirmation window is displayed.
- Click Yes.