Managing blackout periods
You can establish time periods during which Change Owners must be cautious in implementing Changes. You use the Blackout Periods application to create, modify, and delete these time periods.
About this task
When you create a blackout period, you can associate one or more approvers or approver groups with the blackout period. If a Change is scheduled during the blackout period, the Change Owner is notified, and approval records are routed to the specified approvers or approver groups. Changes that are scheduled during a blackout period must be approved before they can be carried out.
In addition to specifying approvers or approver groups for a blackout period, you can specify that the blackout period applies to all of the configuration items (CIs) that are defined in your database, or to a specified group of one or more CIs.