WARP Software

• The WARP MSP (Multi- Service Platform) provides support for all three WARP services
• The WARP FWA (Filtered Warnings Application) is a software application that supports the Filtered Warnings Service and can be run on the WARP operator’s own platform

The WARP Multi- Service Platform (MSP)

The WARP Multi Service Platform (WARP-MSP) allows a new WARP to support a web-based community with ease. Access to the MSP software is via the WARP Operators Forum. A licence fee will be required for the FWA software but the Advice Brokering and Trusted Sharing software is free.

Supports all three WARP services

The WARP-MSP integrates the unique WARP Filtered Warnings Application with Microsoft SharePoint® services. Summary filtered warnings are presented to WARP members on their homepage, with links to full articles, provided by their WARP operator. Advice brokering is facilitated via a searchable Good Practice knowledge base. Discussion groups also support Advice Brokering, along with a shared document repository. There is an online Trusted Sharing reporting form, which supports workflow to allow controlled publication of information.

For further details, please contact us.

Further information on the WARP-MSP is also available from these downloads:

WARP-MSP Guide

The WARP-MSP User Quick Start guide can be distributed by a WARP operator to the members, telling them how to configure their account to ensure they get the best from the system:

WARP-MSP Member's Quick Start Guide

FWA Software

A software package called the Filtered Warnings Application (FWA) has been produced that can be deployed by WARPs to assist in the operation of the Filtered Warnings Service. The user interface of the Filtered Warnings Application is very simple for WARP members, who complete and maintain their subscription profiles, and for WARP operators, who create the warnings and advisories. The subscription lists are provided as “tick-lists” in a tree structure which enables the member to easily select a whole branch or individual items - as shown.

The application provides a default tick-list, complete with entries found to be useful to other WARPs. The subscription tree can easily be modified to include any categories, to reflect the needs of each WARP community.

The Filtered Warnings Application (FWA) software is only available to registered WARPs (i.e. approved by CPNI under the WARP registration process) who have paid the appropriate fee and agreed to the end user software licence agreement. To obtain the software and licence key please contact us

FWA General information

This document describes the format used to represent notifications within FWA, and may be useful to those that wish to interface data feeds with the application. A full Application Program Interface (API) that allows integration with the FWA peer-to-peer interface is available on request, please contact us for further details.

Filtered Warnings Application - Data Fields

It is a good idea to organise a controlled trial of all the WARP services prior to announcing the system is live. The following document describes a suitable trial plan for a WARP deploying the Filtered Warnings Application, but the phased approach described could be applied to any WARP service.

Trial plan for a WARP Filtered Warnings Service

FWA download and support

An external development company, Avius Experience, provide a download facility for the FWA software together the FWA guidance material (Video clips, Handbook etc). This is presently only available to registered WARPs. The company is also offering a support contract to WARPs using FWA. For further details contact . NB. CPNI do not favour one supplier over another and encourage other suppliers who may want to support FWA to offer similar services.

FWA v5.0

FWA V5.0 is an important step in the development of FWA as it reduces the cost of ownership considerably by providing the capability to run multiple instances of FWA on the same PC operating system (Windows Server 2003) while at the same time being compatible with the Microsoft SQL Server free edition (Express). The system requirements for FWA v5.0 are described in the following document.

Software and system requirements for FWA v5.0

A powerpoint presentation describing the features of FWA v5.0 is available below:

FWAv5.0 features overview

A comprehensive Operations Guide for FWA v5.0 is available below:

Filtered Warnings Application v5.0 Operations Guide

FWA v5.1

This FWA v5.1 release further improves the functionality of FWA v5.0 with features such as an RSS feed, PDF attachments, tree mapping in peer to peer and an authentication API to help integrate FWA with other applications. This is available as a free upgrade to v5.0.

To better understand the service which uses this software, read about Filtered Warnings.

FWA v5.2

This FWA v5.2 release add capability for windows 2008 server. It is available as a free upgrade.