Escalation-Policy defines all possible scenarios when an event can be termed as escalated. An Escalation-Policy object defines various aspects of Escalation-Policy such as event types a given escalation policy is applicable to, course of action to be taken during an escalation etc.
An Escalation-Policy object schema looks like this:-
object defines policy for unassigned incidents violation
EscalationSettings.StartThresholdSettings
object
object defines policy for start-time violation
ThresholdSettings
Key
Type
Value
L{#}
String(key)
escalation level; can be 0,1,2,3
Action
String
action id
Recipients
list
recipients of post-escalation actions
TimeAfter
number of seconds
number of seconds since last escalation (for L1 means time since L0; not applicable for L0 since L0 gets applicable right at the time of Incident reporting.)