Maintenance Window

The Maintenance Window tab allows you to schedule maintenance activities such as updates, patches, and OS patching at a specified date and time without disrupting productive hours.

To edit the schedule, click the edit button next to it. This takes you to the Settings tab, where you can configure the start day, start time, and duration.

Below this, you see the upcoming maintenance schedule and any scheduled activities.

1. Click a maintenance schedule to view:

   • A search bar to find specific maintenance activities

   • Filters by status or scheduled by

   • Maintenance activity — Can be system actions such as patching or OS updates, or user-initiated actions such as parameter profile update, compute resize, storage/IOPS resize, or switch over/switch back.

   • Task status — Possible values are SUCCESS, IN_PROGRESS, QUEUED, FAILED, ABORTED.

   • Impact — Displays whether there is service downtime due to the maintenance activity, and the estimated downtime duration.

   • Scheduled By — Displays whether the maintenance activity was initiated by Tessell or by the user.

2. Click the ellipsis (⋮) icon on the maintenance schedule for additional options:

   • Reschedule — A confirmation dialog box opens. Specify the new date and time, then click Confirm.

   • Start Now — A confirmation dialog box appears. Click Start to begin immediately.

   • Cancel — Click to cancel the existing maintenance schedule.

Past Maintenance Window

The past maintenance window section displays maintenance activities that have already occurred.

Use the search bar to find a specific past maintenance activity. You can also filter by Task status using the dropdown list.

The following information is displayed:

• Maintenance date — Displays the dates on which maintenance was performed.

• Task status — Displays whether tasks were skipped or successful, and the number of successful tasks.

  • A maintenance window run is skipped if there are no tasks scheduled for it.

  • If an action on the database service runs for the entire duration of the maintenance window, the run is skipped.

• Runtime — Displays the duration of a successful maintenance activity. Skipped or canceled activities are reflected by their respective statuses.

• Scheduled By — Displays whether the maintenance activity was initiated by Tessell or by the user.

Figure 1: Maintenance Window tab