How do periods in steps work?

[bashman]

I don't understand how periods in steps using escalations work.

I want to send a message to "tomcat admins" immediately, after 5 minutes I want to send a message to "responsible" if the problem still remains, after 30 minutes I want to send a message to "boss", and after two hours to "director".

You can see my solution in this post:

http://www.zabbix.com/forum/showthread.php?p=59805#post59805

[bashman]

It works fine for the previous solution.