Alertus Desktop Notification

Truly effective mass emergency notification should effectively reach your users through multiple channels. Alertus Desktop Notification grabs the attention of your computer users immediately with a full screen (or optional partial screen) pop-up alert. When an emergency occurs and you activate a warning, a full-screen alert will appear on all or select PCs and Macs across your facilities. Alertus Desktop Notification can be activated through the Alertus Activation Software or your existing third-party personal recipient notification software.

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Alertus’ optional enhanced desktop notification solution also allows organizations to send non-emergency notifications using partial screen or ticker alerts that provide less intrusive but equally effective methods for communicating company-wide messages.

Key Features

• Highly Customizable: Alert text, logos, template, behavior, and context menu text can be tailored to suit your organization’s needs

• Flexible Display Modes: In addition to full-screen notification, quarter/partial screen and scrolling ticker notifications supported

• Audio & Image Options: Automatically enunciate the alert message with text-to-speech or initiate sound files when a notification is received. Images can be easily embedded in the pop-up alert, or select from the provided library of useful emergency and informational icon images

• Auditing/Reporting: Detailed real-time reports track who receives/acknowledges each message and the current status of each client

• User Restrictions: Advanced permissions to partition and restrict user access to groups, nodes, alert settings, and preset alerts. Multiple permission levels can be designated according to organizational role

• Map Interface: Displays the locations of all alert nodes with geographic location data on interactive aerial map, whereby alerts can be initiated to recipients in a circular or polygonal geographic area

• ThreatWatcher: Retrieves and processes alert data from multiple external sources including NOAA weather alerts, general CAP and EDXL-DE alerts

• Outbound Distributed Recipient/Outcall: Utilize the Alertus Console as your one-step activation of third-party personal recipient notification services

• International Language Support: Bilingual and non-English messages

*Some features require enhanced support and are not included as part of the basic desktop notification option.

Specs

Technical Details

• Communication: Clients pull alerts using standard HTTP or HTTPS

• WAN Accessible: Configurable to allow off-site users to receive alerts, if desired

• Secure: Pull based method does not require open listening ports. Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) verifies the integrity and authenticity of messages.

• Installer: MSI (Windows), MPKG (Mac)

Client Computer Requirements

• OS: Windows XP, Vista or 7 with the .NET 2.0 Framework (or greater) installed or Windows 8 - 10 with .NET 4.5+ installed and 20 MB of free hard disk space 
  OSX 10.5+ including 10.11 ‘El Capitan’ and 1 MB of free hard disk space

• Network connectivity to the Alertus Server

• Access to a user account with administrative rights that will be used to install the application

Alertus Server Minimum Requirements

• OS: 64-bit Windows 2008, 2008 R2, 2012, or 2012 R2

• Min. Hardware: 2.4 Ghz dual core processor or equivalent, 3 - 4 GB memory, 20 GB free disk space

• LAN Connectivity: 10/100 MB typical, 1 GB recommended

• Other: Virtual server e.g., VMWare) installations suitable; Port 443 must be unbound