Systems Outage Notification Policy

To be considered a scheduled outage, the user community must be notified of the need for a maintenance event window no less than 24 hours in advance of the outage (emergency fixes). Users will be notified of regularly scheduled maintenance in advance, on a schedule that provides sufficient notification, and no less than 72 hours prior to the event, and preferably as much as seven calendar days prior. If that regularly scheduled maintenance is not needed, users will be informed of the cancellation of that maintenance event in a timely manner. Any interruption of service that does not meet the minimum notification window is categorized as an unscheduled outage.