- BlackBerry Alert set up and administration overview
- Manage organizations
- Configure BlackBerry Alert settings
- Configure basic settings
- Manage system settings
- Specify system settings options
- Add or remove a disclaimer for the BlackBerry Alert management system
- Security policy settings
- Define password rules
- Configure password complexity
- Enforce a system-wide password update
- Revoke operator permissions automatically
- Set session timeout and continue session values
- Limit active sessions
- Enable operator login using smart cards
- Require operator login using smart cards
- Enable SSO certificate revocation list checking
- Import a service provider certificate
- Enable CAPTCHA validation
- Monitor system health
- Overview of system health monitoring
- Review preconfigured health monitors
- View the list of system health monitors with errors
- Create a system health monitor
- Edit a health monitor
- Disable a system health monitor
- Enable a system health monitor
- Delete a system health monitor
- Refresh a system health monitor
- View the diagnostic log
- View geolocation transactions and logs
- Database archiving
- Organizations Manager
- Enable and disable features
- Manage the agents for integrated devices
- Provision applications that can call the web API
- Configure API throttling settings
- View the operator audit trail report
- Manage system jobs
- Purge ended alerts
- Manage SMS Opt-In
- Configure device gateways
- Configure devices overview
- Configure devices
- Enable and disable devices
- Set device delivery priority
- Add a device to the user details contact information
- Manage mass communication devices
- Mass device types and categories
- Create a mass device endpoint
- View and edit device details
- Configure Giant Voice devices
- Manage the Cloud Services Gateway
- Configure RSS feed information for RSS and Atom content feeds
- Configure XML feed information for mass communication devices
- Configure failover delivery gateways
- Manage a TTY/TDD phone device
- Manage a pager device
- Configure desktop app settings
- BlackBerry Alert Customer Support Portal
- Documentation feedback
- Legal notice
- BlackBerry Docs
- BlackBerry Alert
- BlackBerry Alert
- System Administrator Configuration Guide
- Manage system settings
- Security policy settings
- Require operator login using smart cards
Require operator login using smart cards
When smart card authentication is required, users can
only
access BlackBerry Alert
by inserting their smart card into a card reader and then entering a PIN. This is commonly used for Department of Defense systems.In order to use this option, you must set up Mapping IDs for each user through the Users manager.
- In the navigation bar, click
. - In theSystem Setupsection, clickSecurity Policy.
- In theSmart Card Authenticationfield, selectSmart Card Login.
- SelectRequire Smart Card.
- ClickSave.
Effects of requiring smart card-only authentication
If you choose to require operators to log in using smart cards, the following changes occur in the administrative side of the
BlackBerry Alert
system:- All sub organizations of the main organization inherit the smart card-only authentication method.
- The log in screen continues to display Username and Password fields because until a user attempts to log in, the system has no way of knowing what organization the user belongs to and what restrictions, if any, the user's organization has imposed on authentication.
- After the user attempts to log in with a username or password combination, the system returns an error message informing them that they must use their smart card for system authentication.