4 Managing Blackout Periods

You can create blackout periods in Oracle Communications Billing and Revenue Management (BRM) Business Operations Center. During a blackout period, you cannot schedule one-time jobs, and any instances of recurring jobs won't run. You might create a blackout period, for example, for planned system maintenance.

To manage blackout periods, see the following topics:

• Creating a Blackout Period

• Deleting a Blackout Period

Creating a Blackout Period

To create a blackout period:

1. Click the Jobs icon.

   The Jobs page appears.

2. Click the Other Actions icon at the top right and then select Schedule Blackout Period.

   The Schedule Blackout Period dialog box appears.

3. In the Title field, enter a name for the blackout period.

4. Specify the date and time range of the blackout period.

5. (Optional) In the Description field, enter information about the blackout period.

6. Click Create.

   The blackout period is displayed as a gray bar at the bottom of the timeline.

   For more information, see "Viewing the Timeline from the Job Details Page".

Deleting a Blackout Period

You can delete a blackout period scheduled for the future. Afterwards, all occurrences of a job in a blackout period run as scheduled.

To delete a blackout period:

1. Click the Jobs icon.

   The Jobs page appears.

2. Click the Job Timeline icon:

   

   The job timeline appears.

3. Right-click the blackout period and then select Delete.

4. Click Confirm.