Configuring weather alerts

You configure weather alerts based on weather conditions and zones affected in the Configure Weather Alerts application.

Procedure

  1. In the Configure Weather Alerts tool, open the Service Configuration page.
  2. Add weather perils to your organization in the Weather Perils table. You can add up to 22 weather perils. (The perils can be downloaded and sent to create your weather subscription).
  3. Click Alert Endpoint.
  4. Create endpoints for the weather alerts. Enter the URL, user name, and password for each endpoint.
  5. Register the endpoints with the weather service by clicking Register All. Save your changes.
  6. On the Weather Zone page, enter the Service Address or the longitude and latitude of the center of each weather zone, and specify the radius of the zone.
  7. Register each weather zone with the weather service by clicking the Register icon. Save your changes.

What to do next

For the weather alerts to appear in Maximo® Asset Management Scheduler applications, you must enable the POPULATEWOWEATHERALERT cron task.

Note:

If you are using Weblogic and are not using application server security (for instance, you are using LDAP in Maximo), you need to bypass Weblogic basic authentication, which can be done with the following configuration change:

To set the enforce-valid-basic-auth-credentials flag, perform the following steps:
  1. Add the <enforce-valid-basic-auth-credentials> element to config.xml within the <security-configuration> element as follows:

    <enforce-valid-basic-auth-credentials>false</enforce-valid-basic-auth-credentials>

    </security-configuration>
  2. Start or restart all of the servers in the domain.