[apnic-announce] APNIC - Maintenance Schedule
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NAME
APNIC - Maintenance Schedule, 1.4, Release
SYNOPSIS
This document describes the maintenance schedule in use by
APNIC, and the procedure for notifying membership of an upcoming
service outage, due to maintenance.
DESCRIPTION
To ensure high availablity and continued quality service, APNIC
has specified a fixed maintenance window, in which to perform
scheduled maintenance. Maintenance includes, but is not limited
to such activities as Add/remove/replace hardware on servers,
bring new servers online, patch servers/workstations, and
install new/updated software on servers/workstations.
MAINTENANCE WINDOW
* Saturday 8:00 to 12:00 UTC +1000
* Saturday 12:00 to 16:00 UTC +1000
Please note, that these times are when APNIC will try to
schedule any service outages. External services are potentially
unavailable during this time.
NOTIFICATION
If a maintenance window is going to be used, a notice will be
sent to the apnic-announce mailing list, at least one week
prior, detailing what external services will be affected while
maintenance is performed and approximately for how long. We
advise members to subscribe to the apnic-announce mailing list
for this reason.
The http://www.apnic.net/maintenance/ web page will also be
updated to reflect any upcoming maintenance, so please refer to
this page for the latest information.
After a maintenance window has been used, an additional notice
will be sent to apnic-announce, confirming what maintenance has
occurred and detailing any further outages that may be required.
CANCELLATION/RESCHEDULING
If a maintenance window has been scheduled for use, but will not
be used due to unforseen circumstances, then a notice will be
sent to the apnic-announce mailing list, and the
http://www.apnic.net/maintenance/ web page will be updated.
TESTING
APNIC will endeavour, when possible, to ensure that all software
and hardware modifications made during a maintenance window have
been fully tested on our development network prior to roll-out
onto our production network.
FILES
http://www.apnic.net/maintenance/ will be updated with
information of any upcoming maintenance periods, and the
timetable for standing maintenance windows
SEE ALSO
Information about upcoming maintenance will be e-mailed to
apnic-announce several days in advance when possible.
NOTES
For periods of extended outage APNIC will attempt to configure a
temporary server to ensure continued service during this time.
RESTRICTIONS
Some maintenance is time critical, in particular security
related upgrades. In those instances when system security may be
comprised by not acting immediately APNIC will perform
maintenance without prior notification.
In the event of unscheduled maintenance, a notice will be sent
to the apnic-announce mailing list after completion detailing
what tasks have been performed. If possible I notice will also
be sent to the apnic-announce mailing list during the
unscheduled maintenance.
AUTHOR
paulg, Paul Gampe, <paulg at apnic dot net>.
HISTORY
maintenance.pod,v 1.4 1998/10/19 05:47:32 paulg Release
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