on-call pager rotation

[8lb4fmllhm001 at sneakemail.com]

Perhaps this is the wrong list to submit this to, but maybe someone already has a solution/workaround....

In an environment where you have one (or more) administrative groups, where all admins have their own pager (ie, instead of a 'floater' which gets handed off to the on-call admin), it would be handy for one of the admins to either 'hand off' the virtual pager to someone else in his group, or to 'take' the virtual pager from someone else in his group.

For example, let's say there's an admininstrative group called linuxadmin, with admins rob, sue and stef.  As rob finishes his 1 week (for example) with the virtual pager, either he would reassign it to sue, or sue would reassign it to herself.  After sue is done with her week, she passes the buck to terry (or stef assigns it to himself), etc etc and so on.

The crude way of doing this would, of course, to be editing escalations.cfg once a week, changing who gets to be the primary on-call.  But I'd like to think there's a better way of doing this, preferably web-based.

Thoughts?  Suggestions?

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