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When

This varies according to the maintenance.

  • Minor upgrades where no outage is expected may be conducted at any time

  • Major upgrades where an outage is expected will be Wednesday evening

Time

Wednesday evening 6:00 p.m. until 10:00 p.m. Melbourne, Australia (convert timezone)

Impact

  • All upgrades conducted during business hours will have no downtime.

  • The majority of our maintenance within the maintenance window is conducted with zero downtime.

  • Some maintenance during the maintenance window may have a small amount of downtime, typically measured in a few minutes during this period.

How to opt in or out of email notifications

Crisisworks Users can opt in and out of the following alerts from their user profile:

  • Software Upgrades & System Maintenance: provides email notification of any upgrade or system maintenance, whether or not an outage is expected

  • Outages: provides email notification of planned or unplanned outages

To change your email subscription preferences:

  1. Sign into your Crisisworks site

  2. Expand the user menu at the top right of the screen, and click “Edit Profile

  3. At the bottom of the profile form, find “Email Subscriptions” and select or de-select the subscriptions you would like

  4. Click “Save”

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Holdback Arrangement

During extreme high pressure events, some customers wish to remain on a previous version rather than be upgraded, in which case they can request to be put onto our holdback arrangement.

Under this arrangement, only critical maintenance is carried out, and major releases are withheld for a short period of time. This is useful if a major version is planned for release at a time when a customer is involved in a high-pressure event.

  • The holdback arrangement is an exceptional, temporary arrangement that will last only a few days.

  • Datalink will work with you to seek a better time to upgrade your site out of the normal maintenance windows.

To request your site be placed onto the holdback arrangement, please email our Service Desk.

Email notifications on updates

You can Opt In or Opt Out of email notifications on these updates to keep informed of our update schedule as well as impacts to your service.