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Bryce Norwood - NowSMS Support Board Administrator Username: Bryce Post Number: 8451 Registered: 10-2002 |
The process of configuring the NowSMS MMSC to use Diameter to interface with a charging system is described here: https://nowsms.com/mmsc-diameter-mm9-implementation This document explains how to adapt the above instructions to configure NowSMS NextGen to use Diameter for MMS charging. Step 1: Refer to the section titled "MM9Test Program". There is a link to a ZIP file (https://nowsms.com/download/mm9test.zip) which contains mm9test.exe, which is a command-line program for Windows that is used to test and configure how the MMSC will interface with your charging system. mm9test.exe is only available for Windows at this time. Use mm9test.exe to determine what parameters and formats are required to interface with your charging system. The ZIP file includes two XML files that are used to define the format of the Diameter packets generated by the MMSC. diameter-capabilities-exchange.xml defines the capabilities exchange request that is used to initiate the connection and diameter-credit-control.xml defines the charging packet format. Diameter is not an XML-based protocol, but the MMSC uses these templates to define what AVPs (attribute-value pairs) are included in Diameter requests. Some of the AVPs in the XML are conditionally included based on whether a particular “extension set” is required. Based on our experience, different servers require different AVPs. In our default XML, we grouped these parameters as “extension sets”. Parameters marked with an extensionset attribute in the XML are enabled only if the corresponding extension set is enabled. Our experience is that most customers will be able to successfully use Diameter with either the SCAP or 3GPP extension set enabled. When you have successfully completed a charge, and MM9 reports a successful "Diameter Result Code 2001", you are then ready to configure the MMSC for Diameter charging. Step 2: Configure the MMSC to enable Diameter charging.
Adding the [MM9Diameter] section is what enables Diameter charging. It will activate within about 60 seconds of adding the [MM9Diameter] section to the MMSC.INI file. All client MM1 submissions will see a Diameter charge, and MMS messages will be rejected if a 2001 status is not received. If you need to remove Diameter charging, remove the [MM9Diameter] section from the MMSC.INI file. Known bugs and issues that exist in versions prior to 2021.06.24:
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