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Plan your
AtHoc
 IWA system

All use cases for
AtHoc
 IWA require some planning and use of different
BlackBerry AtHoc
 features such as creating weather alert rules and alert templates.
Begin planning by answering the following questions and gathering the information required for configuration. Take into consideration that you will need to create weather alert templates and rules for each organization in your
BlackBerry AtHoc
 system.
Define alert conditions
  • Locations to monitor
    What US states/territories and counties do you want to monitor weather events for? Enable geo-targeting to further refine the weather alerts received by targeted users.
    IWA supports all territories covered by the NWS.
  • Weather events to monitor
    What types of weather events do you want to monitor? Examples include floods, thunderstorms, and hurricanes.
  • Event severity
    What is the severity of weather events that you want to monitor? You can select to monitor minor, moderate, severe, extreme, and unknown weather events. You can also select to monitor weather events of any severity, or any combination of levels of severity.
    IWA supports all severity levels provided by the NWS.
  • Message type
    What type of messages do you want to monitor? You can select to monitor for advisory, alert, danger, outlook, statement, warning, and watch message types. You can monitor all message types, which is the default. You can select any combination of message types to monitor.
Select alert rule actions
What alert templates do you want to trigger when specific weather conditions are met? You can create weather alert rules that trigger sending predefined alert templates. The operator can then select the alert template, and then decide if they want the map in the alert template to be overridden by the map in the weather feed. For more information, see Enable geofence targeting.
Incoming weather events that affect the selected counties are delivered to targeted recipients using selected delivery devices such as PCs, mobile phones, and sirens. You can create multiple rules. Each rule can be for a specific location or type of event. For example, you can create one rule for San Mateo county that monitors for tsunamis, and a separate rule for San Francisco county that monitors for earthquakes.
Configure
AtHoc
 IWA
The general procedure to configure IWA is:
  1. Enable IWA for each organization in your
    BlackBerry AtHoc
     system.
  2. Create alert templates for each organization that has enabled weather alert rules.
  3. Create alert rules for each organization that specify the weather event severity, type, message type, and location.
  4. Enable the feed poller and feed processor jobs on your
    BlackBerry AtHoc
     system.