Emergency Notification System

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Emergency Notification System
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Challenges

• Notify when and where?
• Main campus 1468 acres and 272 buildings
• Options
• Email
• SMS
• Phone
• Pixie dust and bullhorns
• Setting Expectations
• Text messages are instant
• Email is instant

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Solutions - IT Role

• CITES brought in to implement campus selection
• EEN system by Mutare
• Used by the Urbana and Springfield campuses
• Each campus system acts as the backup for the
  other
• Mutare is an asp based application with a MS SQL
  Server backend

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Last Minute Challenges

• System uses UIN for login
• System uses a 4 digit pin (argh!)
• System has no logging facility (argh! argh)
• System has no facility for modifying end-user
  interface (argh3)
• Hacked a Bluestem front-end
• Hide PIN from user
• Log access to our SEM and set alerts
• Directly manipulated end-user interface

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Status and Future Plans

• Preloaded 75,000 F/S/S email addresses
• Now seeing 6-800 logins / day to update info
• Please sign up messages on
• Express mail
• Illinois Compass
• www.uiuc.edu
• DI articles, Inside Illinois, WILL, etc
• Testing continues - 3000 users on Friday
• Whole campus test by end of year
• Continue to watch ENS market for supplemental or
  alternative solutions