[EAS] CAP Test (RWT logs)

[Ed Czarnecki]

Hi Dave - here's what we captured in the logs from DASDECs at our offices in
upstate NY and Utah.  It does not look like an IPAWS RWT was coded for Idaho
on Monday.

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Server: 'DASDEC-1F EAS' @ 192.0.0.81
DASDEC-1EN '/dasdec_cap_eas_decoded_events/' Alert Report at 'Tue Dec 13
16:49:09 2011 EST'
>From 'Mon Dec 12 00:00:00 2011 EST' to 'Wed Dec 14 00:00:00 2011 EST'
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2:	RWT	REQUIRED WEEKLY TEST		'CAP1'(IPAWSCAP)
ORG=CIV 
		'Mon Dec 12 10:05:00 2011 EST' to 'Mon Dec 12 11:05:00 2011
EST' 
	Decoded : 'Mon Dec 12 10:05:56 2011 EST' 
		 Puerto Rico(072000)	 Virgin Islands Of The United
States(078000)	

3:	RWT	REQUIRED WEEKLY TEST		'CAP1'(IPAWSCAP)
ORG=CIV 
		'Mon Dec 12 14:05:00 2011 EST' to 'Mon Dec 12 15:05:00 2011
EST' 
	Decoded : 'Mon Dec 12 14:06:16 2011 EST' 
		 California(006000)	 Nevada(032000)	
		 (014000)	 Washington(053000)	

4:	RWT	REQUIRED WEEKLY TEST		'CAP1'(IPAWSCAP)
ORG=CIV 
		'Mon Dec 12 16:05:00 2011 EST' to 'Mon Dec 12 17:05:00 2011
EST' 
	Decoded : 'Mon Dec 12 16:05:35 2011 EST' 
		 Hawaii(015000)	

3 events for this time period.

-----Original Message-----
From: eas-bounces at radiolists.net [mailto:eas-bounces at radiolists.net] On
Behalf Of Dave Turnmire

I also didn't get any alerts for Idaho.  Is that because they didn't get
sent?  Or were they flagged differently this time?  There was some
discussion after the earlier RWTs about whether to code the RWTs as "actual"
or something else... such as test or exercise.  Did that change?  Perhaps
that is the issue on my end.

Perhaps someone from Monroe could clarify... my DASDEC has two "test mode"
check boxes (currently unchecked), one says "Process Test CAP Messages as
Actual" and the other is similar except for "Exercise" CAP messages.  Can we
get some clarification on what exactly "process" means in this context?  I'd
still like to have a test or exercise message show up in my log
(otherwise... how do I know I "passed" the test?).  As long as it doesn't
get forwarded, I'm happy.  But my DASDEC didn't even get the messages that
David Mulford indicated he got for Guam, etc.  After I configured FIPS code
filtering last week, I was still seeing the other alerts in the "Ops Log"...
just listed as "blocked".  But I haven't seen ANY IPAWS alerts this week,
even in the Ops Log.  Just wondering if that might be a side affect of
changing the coding on the alerts to "test" or "Exercise".

Speaking of which... what is the difference between "test" and "Exercise"?

Thanks

Dave

On 12/12/2011 12:44 PM, Mulford, David wrote:
> Wayne,
> I got several alerts but not any for Virginia.
>
> My DASDEC box reports the following:
>
> Sun Dec 11 20:05:00 2011 EST - RWT from IPAWS OPEN CAP EAS Feed 
> Configuration Test Message
> - Guam (066000) Northern Mariana Islands (069000)
> ZCZC-CIV-RWT-066000-069000+0100-3460105-IPAWSCAP-
>
> Mon Dec 12 10:05:00 2011 EST - RWT from IPAWS OPEN CAP EAS Feed 
> Configuration Test Message
> - Puerto Rico (072000) Virgin Islands Of The United States (078000)
>
> ZCZC-CIV-RWT-072000-078000+0100-3461505-IPAWSCAP-
>
> Mon Dec 12 14:05:00 2011 EST - RWT from IPAWS OPEN CAP EAS Feed 
> Configuration Test Message
> - California (006000) Nevada (032000) Washington (053000)
> ZCZC-CIV-RWT-006000-032000-014000-053000+0100-3461905-IPAWSCAP-
>
> My box did not pick up any IPAWS/CAP tests for the Eastern, Central or 
> Mountain timezones.
> Several things may have happened IMHO - FEMA's servers were overtaxed, 
> my EAS box wouldn't poll/connect due to network issues on my end 
> and/or was configured incorrectly, FEMA didn't issue a test message 
> for my timezone at 11AM EST.
>
> Mr. David Mulford
> Engineer WRKE-LP Salem VA.
>

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