West Coast/Alaska Tsunami Warning
Center
Operations Manual
NOAA/NWS/WCATWC
910 South Felton Street
Palmer, Alaska 99645
http://wcatwc.arh.noaa.gov
Section
4.1.12 – page_alarm
Date Written: 1/2001
Development Language: MicroSoft C/C++ v7.0
Necessary Rings:
Input Ring - ALARM_RING;
reads TYPE_ALARM format messages
Necessary Data Files:
AlarmTextFile – Text to
send over cel phones
AlarmFile – Cell
phones to call
AlarmBatFile – Batch
file to send cell phone messages
PagerFile – Text to
send to pagers.
Initialization File:
page_alarm.d
- read on module start-up
Module Description:
This module takes a message from an ALARM_RING, and if the message is a
valid alarm message, it will send it out to different output devices dependent
on flag settings. Alarm messages can:
·
Be sent out a serial port (to activate a pager
system - the serial port baud rate, etc., are set up in the initialization file),
·
Activate a .wav file which is broadcast over the
computers speakers, or
·
In conjunction with an email sending program, send
cell phone text messages.
Filtering of alarm messages to send over the various options must be
performed by the modules sending the alarms.
Graphical Interface:
This module has no graphical interface. Pager messages are logged to the
Windows console, if created.