Two admins – John and Bob – are responsible for responding to BLËSK alerts. John receives all notifications for weekdays (with 24 hour days), excluding holidays; Bob handles notifications during the weekends and holidays. Lucky Bob. Here’s how you can define this type of rotation using timeperiods…
1 . First, define 3 timeperiods that contains time ranges for holidays, weekdays, and weekends:
define timeperiod{
name weekdays
timeperiod_name weekdays
monday 00:00-24:00
tuesday 00:00-24:00
wednesday 00:00-24:00
thursday 00:00-24:00
friday 00:00-24:00
}
define timeperiod{
name weekends
timeperiod_name weekends
saturday 00:00-24:00
sunday 00:00-24:00
}
define timeperiod{
name holidays
timeperiod_name holidays
january 1 00:00-24:00 ; New Year's Day
2008-03-23 00:00-24:00 ; Easter (2008)
2009-04-12 00:00-24:00 ; Easter (2009)
monday -1 may 00:00-24:00 ; Memorial Day (Last Monday in May)
july 4 00:00-24:00 ; Independence Day
monday 1 september 00:00-24:00 ; Labor Day (1st Monday in September)
thursday 4 november 00:00-24:00 ; Thanksgiving (4th Thursday in November)
december 25 00:00-24:00 ; Christmas
december 31 17:00-24:00 ; New Year's Eve (5pm onwards)
}
2 . Next, define a timeperiod for John’s on-call times that include weekdays, but excludes the dates/times defined in the holidays timeperiod above:
define timeperiod{
timeperiod_name john-oncall
use weekdays ; Include weekdays
exclude holidays ; Exclude holiday dates/times
}
3 . You can now reference this timeperiod in John’s contact definition:
4 . Define a new timeperiod for Bob’s on-call times that include weekends and the dates/times defined in the holidays timeperiod above:
define timeperiod{
timeperiod_name bob-oncall
use weekends,holidays ; Include weekend and holiday
}
5 . You can now reference this timeperiod in Bob’s contact definition:
