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In this scenario John and Bob alternate handling alerts every other day – regardless of whether its a weekend, weekday, or holiday.
1 . Define a timeperiod for when John should receive notifications. Assuming today’s date is August 1st, 2017 and John is handling notifications starting today, the definition would look like this:
define timeperiod{
timeperiod_name john-oncall
2017-08-01 / 2 00:00-24:00 ; Every two days, starting August 1st, 2017
}
2 . Now define a timeperiod for when Bob should receive notifications. Bob gets notifications on the days that John doesn’t, so his first on-call day starts tomorrow (August 2nd, 2017).
define timeperiod{
timeperiod_name bob-oncall
2017-08-02 / 2 00:00-24:00 ; Every two days, starting August 2nd, 2017
}
3 . Now you need to reference these timeperiod definitions in the contact definitions for John and Bob:
