Maintenance windows

About

Maintenance window items are used in patch management process to define time slots (schedules) when security patch installations are allowed at managed computers. This way security patch installations can be scheduled to take place outside business hours. If any maintenance window has not been defined, then patch installations are done according to the settings configured with the scheduled task profiles in "Administration > System settings > Clients > General > Built-in scheduled tasks > Windows > Patch scan and install".

Maintenance windows don't have affect to security patch inventory scan interval. Security patch inventory scans are always run according to the settings configured with the scheduled task profiles.

About items

Maintenance window item

Maintenance window item attributes

Location in navigation menu

Administration > Feature settings > Patch management > Maintenance windows

View content

Section

Available attributes

Catalog columns

Name, Schedule, Status, Next scheduled run date

Summary dimensions

Status

View filters

Name, Schedule, Status

Note! this may not be the full list of available attributes

View tools and actions

Task

Description

Create new

Creates a new Maintenance window item.

Export

By default, this task exports all the view contents in the selected file format. However, you can use the check boxes in the view to export selected rows only. You can select rows for the export from one page of the view at a time.

The supported file formats for the data export are CSV, Excel, and PDF. In some views, configuration items can be also exported to a group distribution.

Print

Prints the view contents.

Related processes

Patch management

Additional information

How to export data?

How to work with the views?