We want to create an escalation policy and add an exclusion at a specific time for the same escalation policy.
For example, we want to create a specific escalation policy applied to all alarms, but excluding a certain period from the schedule.
How can we ensure that the escalation policies are excluded during specific business hours?
SOI 2.4
Guidance
The techdoc below have the steps to create policies and schedule them:
Define Escalation Policy (broadcom.com)
So there isn't any exclusion possible. But it is possible to add an "Escalation Schedule". You can create a schedule (business hours) for the period you would like the schedule to be active. On those periods where is not a active (outside defined business hours), it won't work so the alarms won't be ticketed into Service Desk during "non-business-hours".
Practical example:
• Add exclusion to an escalation policy for Saturdays between 8:00 and 18:00 (10h)
1. Create a Schedule That covers from Sunday to Friday, 24hs:
8am to 8am every day
2. That covers Only Saturday from 18.00 to 8.00AM sunday
This way all week will be schedule to work, except from 8.am to 6.00pm on Saturdays.
Schedule 1:
24h Sunday 8.00am to Monday 8.00am
24h Monday 8.00am to Tuesday 8.00am
24h Tuesday 8.00am to Wednesday 8.00am
24h Wednesday 8.00am to Thursday 8.00am
24h Thursday 8.00am to Friday 8.00am
24h Friday 8.00am to Saturday 8.00am
Schedule 2:
14h Saturday 18.00am to Sunday 8.00am
Time not covered by the 2 schedules:
Saturday between 8:00 and 18:00 (10h)