Pause Bandwidth Changes with Blackout Windows

Sometimes you don't want bandwidth changing automatically, for example during a maintenance window or a year-end change freeze. Blackout windows are periods when Apptifi's bandwidth scheduling is suppressed. Each window shows its label, what it applies to, and its start and end. A Weekly badge means the window repeats every week.

A window can cover all circuits, a single circuit group, or one specific circuit. Here, the holiday freeze covers everything, Sunday maintenance covers one group, and the Dallas power work only affects the Dallas circuit. To create a new window, click the Add Blackout button at the top right. A short form opens.

Start with a clear label, so anyone reading the audit log later knows why changes were paused. Next, choose the scope. Leave it blank to cover all circuits, or pick a circuit group or an individual circuit from the list. Then set the start date and time, and the end date and time, for the window.

Tick Repeat weekly if this should happen every week, on the same day and at the same times. Click Add Window. The form closes, and your new blackout window joins the list straight away. To remove a window, hover over it and click the delete icon.

It changes to Confirm, so click once more to remove it for good. While a blackout is active, any change the scheduler would have made is skipped, and the skip is recorded in the Audit Log. That's where we're heading next.