Configuring Chief Messaging

Chief Messaging supports receiving messages by SNPP and SMTP. As a result, we can configure PageGate to use the better and more direct SNPP method first and fail over to SMTP if something goes wrong.

Special Notes:

•Port 444 will need to be open for SNPP traffic.

•To configure the SMTP failover, you will need to know your SMTP server address, port to connect on and required authentication credentials.

Step 1: Configure ChiefMessaging-PRIMARY as a delivery method

1)Run PG Admin.

2)Right click Carriers, select Add

3)Specify the following and click Apply:

4)Go to Carriers - ChiefMessaging-PRIMARY - Advanced

5)Set Priority to: 1

6)Click Apply

Step 2: Configure ChiefMessaging-BACKUP as a delivery method

1)Right click Carriers, select Add

2)Specify the following:

3)Go to Carriers - ChiefMessaging-BACKUP - Advanced

4)Specify the following:

Select the 'Deliver through outgoing mail server' option and enter your SMTP server address in the 'Relay Server' field.

For example, if you use Office365, you would use smtp.office365.com as the relay server address.

Specify the required username and password.

Set 'Priority' to: 1

5)Click Apply

6)Go to Carriers - ChiefMessaging-BACKUP - Template

7)Specify the following in the 'Settings' section:

8)Click Apply.

Step 3: Configure the failover

1)Go to Carriers - ChiefMessaging-PRIMARY - Advanced

2)Click the dropdown arrow next to 'Failover' and select: ChiefMessaging-BACKUP

3)Click Apply

Step 4: Create Recipients tied to the Chief Messaging method of delivery

1) Right click Recipients, select Add.

2)Specify the following:

Full Name: Describe the agency being messaged

Recipient: This field is auto-populated and may need to be edited. When integrating with a CAD system, this field will need to reflect CAD's name.

For example, if CAD is going to dispatch 'Palentine Fire District 2' by calling on the name pfd2, that is the value you would use in this field.

Type: Normal

Carrier: ChiefMessaging-PRIMARY

Failover: See Failover Scenarios

ID/PIN: The Chief Messaging messaging ID.

Typically speaking, Chief Messaging will give you an email address per group you want to send to. The prefix of the email address, the part before the @, is what you'll use in the ID/PIN field.

As an example, if your Chief Messaging address is uxW900@chiefcadpage.com, you would use uxW900 in the ID/PIN field.

Max Chars: 6000

3)Click Apply.