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Maintenance window

Meaning in software engineering, with examples

nounCommon term

In software engineering, maintenance window means: An agreed period, usually at night or at the weekend, when engineers are allowed to make changes that may interrupt service, such as software upgrades and hardware swaps.

In Turkish: bakım penceresi, planlı bakım zamanı, bakım çalışması aralığı

How it is used

Used in change management and customer notices. Teams schedule, request, announce and extend maintenance windows; work must finish, or be rolled back, before the window closes. Operators notify customers about the maintenance window in advance.

Example sentences

  1. The core router upgrade is scheduled for Saturday's maintenance window, 01:00 to 05:00.

  2. We ran out of time in the maintenance window, so we rolled back the change.

Common collocations

  • schedule a maintenance window
  • overnight maintenance window
  • within the maintenance window
  • extend the maintenance window
  • downtimeThe amount of time a system or service is not available to users, either because of a failure or because of planned maintenance.
  • outageA period when a service, system or part of it is not working or cannot be reached by users.
  • configureTo set up a device or service by entering the settings it needs, such as addresses, passwords, VLANs and routing, so that it works the way the network requires.
  • NOCShort for network operations centre: the team and room, often staffed 24/7, that monitors a network, responds to alarms and coordinates the repair of faults and outages.

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