Maintenance Page Overview

This article gives an overview of Datto Network Manager's Maintenance page.

Environment

  • Datto Network Manager
  • Datto Access Points

Description

The Maintenance page lets you:

  • Set automatic firmware upgrades for access points
  • Manually change access point firmware versions or upgrade access point firmware
  • Set maintenance windows by day of the week and time

NOTE  Auto Channel Optimization will run every night regardless of the maintenance window schedule on the Configure → Maintenance page.

Navigation

  1. In the Datto Partner Portal, click the Status tab, then select Networking Status from the drop-down menu.

  2. In the Navigation menu, click Configure, then select Maintenance from the drop-down menu.

     

Configuration

The follow device maintenance configurations are available for physical networking devices:

  • Automatic upgrades: When enabled, your access points will automatically upgrade to the latest firmware release version as new upgrades become available.
  • Firmware release: This option allows you to select if access points use the latest or stable firmware release. Latest contains our newest software updates and features available for beta testing. A Latest release will become Stable after one release cycle. Read our access point release notes for a list of latest and stable firmware releases.

Maintenance window

A maintenance window allows you to define a time window where Datto Networking performs services such as firmware upgrades and automatic channel optimization for access points. You can configure the following options when setting up your maintenance window:



  • Start Time: Allows you to define what hour of the day the maintenance window opens

  • Duration: Allows you to define how long the window is open
  • Timezone: Allows you to define what timezone the start time references
  • Active Days: Allows you to specify what days of the week the maintenance window opens