Scheduled Maintenance
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A planned, pre-announced activity window during which an information system, component, or service undergoes upkeep tasks—such as patching, hardware servicing, configuration changes, or software updates—that are coordinated in advance and recorded. It is distinguished from unscheduled (emergency or reactive) maintenance by its predictable timing, which allows organizations to balance technical requirements (e.g., system upgrades) against operational constraints such as time-zone differences or mission-critical availability windows. In NIST SP 800-53 and its derivatives, scheduled maintenance is treated as a legitimate system-related requirement that organizations must weigh alongside mission and business requirements when managing access, account lifecycles, and availability. Within the NIST Maintenance (MA) control family, it is one component of the secure upkeep regime for system components—alongside emergency repairs and secure remote maintenance controls—governed by requirements for controlled execution, logging, and authorization.
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- plural
- scheduled maintenancesScheduled Maintenances
- possessive
- scheduled maintenance'sScheduled Maintenance's
- pluralpossessive
- scheduled maintenances'Scheduled Maintenances'
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- maintenance at a regularly scheduled time
- §1 · attested_usage_reviewer_confirmed
- No definition is given in NIST SP 800-171r3. The term is attested in use at 1 citation in that document; a definition is pending curation.Increment 2: attested in 800-171r3 without a glossary definition.
- §1 · legacy_primary
- maintenance at a regularly scheduled timeDR-088 backfill from the noun definition column