Time period definitions

[Mike Neimoyer]

Good morning, all.

This'll be my first post here, and I'm a new Nagios user having 
inherited a setup, so be gentle ;-) I've been reading books (Barth's, 
Turnbull's, Kocjan's, and Josephsen's), and am slowly getting an 
understanding of how things work.

One issue that I am having problems with is how to set up the 
timeperiods for a rotating on-call staff. I've been reading sites
(http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/oncallrotation.html)
(http://tech.ebusinessjuncture.com/2009/10/nagios-example-of-how-to-make-an-oncall-rotation/) 
I think I understand it, but since none of the books I have seem to 
detail this I figured I would ask here.

To set up a rotation for three admins to be on-call one week each, I 
would need to define the timeperiods for each admin as such:
<<example date>> / 21                00:00-24:00

Then I specify out a full week's worth of entries, with the "/ 21" after 
it to specify that it repeats every 21 days, correct?  I think I then 
would specify the other two admins' timeperiods to follow this, 
specifying appropriate start dates and the "/ 21" modifier.

I think that's right.

I am sure my search terms for this were incorrect, but if someone 
wouldn't mind pointing me in the direction of some good resources for 
this, I would greatly appreciate it!  And now, back to the books.

Thanks!
~~Mike



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