InformaCast
Use InformaCast to make an announcement over the PA for each drill/action alert/caution alert in CatapultEMS.
Instructions
In InformaCast
- In the left pane, choose Notifications > Command Center > Sites. Review and align with CatapultEMS sites. In InformaCast each site can be global or local. Choose the same level as the Distribution Lists and Device Groups they need to contain.
- In the left pane, choose Notifications > Command Center > Scenarios. Review and align with CatapultEMS actions. For example, if you have an evacuate, lockdown, and shelter-in-place in CatapultEMS, you need to set up the same scenarios in InformaCast.
- In the left pane, choose Integrations > Service Accounts. Create a "CatapultEMS" user and set up a permanent token. Copy the bearer token for use below.
- User > Securities tab > Global Permissions
- Users > User Tokens > Create, View, and Delete
- Notifications > Command Center > Sites > View
- Notifications > Command Center > Scenario Notifications > Create
- Enable view scenario permissions (?)
- User > Securities tab > Global Permissions
In CatapultEMS, choose District Settings > Integrations > Add Integration. Fill in the following:
- Name: PA (InformaCast)
- Authentication: bearer token (get token from client)
- Request Method: POST
- URL to send the payload: https://api.icmobile.singlewire.com/api/v1/scenario-notifications (the first part of the address changes per client)
- Monitoring URL: https://api.icmobile.singlewire.com/api/v1/sites
- Monitoring response should include: "data"
- Monitoring Email: [your email address]
- Content of payload
{ "scenarioId": "$$MAPPED_ACTION_TYPE_ID$$", "location": {"site": {"id": "$$MAPPED_SITE_ID$$"}} }
- Event trigger: select all except incident
Initiate caution alert
Initiate action alert
Initiate drill
Resolve incident
Resolve caution alert
Resolve action alert
Resolve drill
- Action types: select all
- MAPPED_SITE_ID fields. Get Site IDs using Postman.
- GET https://api.icmobile.singlewire.com/api/v1/sites
- Authorization: use bearer token from above.
- MAPPED_ACTION_TYPE_ID fields. Get Scenario IDs using Postman.
- GET https://api.icmobile.singlewire.com/api/v1/scenarios
- Authorization: use bearer token from above.