Outage avoidance for connected devices

Abstract

An approach for outage avoidance. The approach receives a scheduled task, wherein the scheduled task is completed at a scheduled time by a device. The approach receives an outage time of a service disruption, wherein the service disruption occurs at the outage time. The approach determines whether the service disruption conflicts with the scheduled task, based on the outage time and the scheduled time. Responsive to a determination that the service disruption conflicts with the scheduled task, the approach modifies the scheduled task to be completed at a modified time, wherein the outage time does not conflict with the modified time.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . A computer-implemented method for outage avoidance comprising:
 receiving a scheduled task to be completed at a scheduled time by a device;   receiving an outage time of a service disruption, wherein the service disruption occurs at the outage time;   determining whether the service disruption conflicts with the scheduled task based on the outage time and the scheduled task;   responsive to a determination that the service disruption conflicts with the scheduled task, modifying the scheduled task to be completed at a modified time, wherein the outage time does not conflict with the modified time;   determining whether to schedule a mitigation action, wherein the mitigation action reduces an effect of the service disruption;   responsive to a determination to schedule the mitigation action, determining the mitigation action, wherein the mitigation action is to be completed at a mitigation time by the device; and   scheduling the mitigation action to be completed at the mitigation time by the device.