[EAS] FW: Cap logging

[Clay Freinwald]

Dave (or Clay);

I'm out of town for the holiday and don't have access to something that will
send from my sage address, and therefore can't send to the eas list
directly.  Can you pass this along to the thread for me?  Thanks.

Sage ENDEC logging.
Alerts received via RF or CAP.

If you have a filter says all locations and all events then any alert will
match that filter.  

Otherwise, assuming the alert event matches the filter event, then:

If you have a filter that says all of state, that tells the ENDEC you are
interested in any alert issued for any county in that state, and an alert
for any country in the state will match that filter.

If you receive an alert that says all of state, and you have a filter that
specifies a county in that state, then the alert will match that filter.

If you only want a match for county c in state s, then have a filter that
specifies county c.  Only alerts that include county c, or all of state s,
will match.

The log file will tell you which filter was matched.  If you get an alert
you don't think should have matched, look at the locations in the filter and
take the above into account.  We'll be happy to help you at
support at sagealertingystems.com.

In general, you usually don't want to have all of state in a filter, unless
you do in fact want to carry alerts for any location in your state.

You will get a match if the alert says all of your state, however.

Now, the special cases.  The blue 3644 ENDEC will mark alerts that match one
of your filters as "received".  If you receive a legacy alert over the RF,
and don't have a filter for it, the ENDEC will show the alert on the log as
"ignored".  You don't get an email for ignored alerts. An ignored alert is
never relayed.

If an ignored alert is received from CAP, then the ENDEC does not log it at
all.  This is to keep you from logging hundreds of alerts per day once the
NWS makes its CAP alerts visible on the IPAWS public feed.  The much much
smaller number of over the air legacy alerts are logged as ignored.

I hope this clears up some of the questions.

Harold Price
Sage Alerting Systems