Blackout Policies (SETTINGS menu > Alert Center Libraries - Blackout Policies) enable you to designate specific personnel and periods where alerting is muted. It enables you to override/pivot notification schedules between teams, designate on-call or shifts of responsibility, combine blackout period with chains of notification, and more.

Managing Blackout Policies:

From the Notification Policies Library in the WhatsUp Gold Alert Center Libraries view, you can perform the following Blackout Policies operations.

  • Add. Create new Blackout Policies.
  • Edit. Adjust, tune, and configure existing Blackout Policies.
  • Copy. Create policy cloned from the configuration of existing Blackout Policies.
  • Delete. Remove Blackout Policies from library.

Example Blackout Policy (Mute or 'Blackout' All but Second Shift SMS Texts)