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NowSMS Support Forums ⬆ NowSMS Support - SMS Issues ⬆ Archive through July 28, 2010 ⬆ |
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| Chris New member Username: Chrisc Post Number: 26 Registered: 12-2008 |
Hi guys We'd like to know if it is possible to Poll NowSMS for the statistics that appears on the Service tab of the interface. What we'd prefer is to have the stats talk to Windows perfmon because it hardly impacts the server. If not, any other means is also acceptable. The main reason for this is to measure current performance such as current message throughput, queued messages, sent messages, failures and retries. If this is at all possible, we'd like to have stats on an overall and on a per SMPP-bind level. Is this something you can perhaps look into? Thanks Chris | |||
| Des - NowSMS Support Board Administrator Username: Desosms Post Number: 1784 Registered: 08-2008 |
Hi Chris, There is a polling interface that returns an XML format status report. You can find details here: http://blog.nowsms.com/2009/02/xml-status-query-for-smsc-connection.html And we just recently posted an XML Schema that can also assist in interpreting the information: http://blog.nowsms.com/2010/02/xml-status-query-for-smsc-connection.html -- Des NowSMS Support | |||
| Chris New member Username: Chrisc Post Number: 28 Registered: 12-2008 |
Hi Des Thanks for providing us this, this will help us a lot in managing our SMPP users. However, what we are after is some way of having realtime monitoring in place for the NowSMS queues. The reasons we're suggesting Windows Perfmon is because of the fact that perfmon hardly uses any server overhead, is easy to integrate with, and offers realtime monitoring. When looking at the NowSMS service tab, realtime monitoring already seems to be the case with NowSMS, but our we think that because the application is already Windows based, integration into perfmon should be possible? We're basically looking for queued messages, sent messages, failures and retries. Is there any way you can look into this? | |||
| Des - NowSMS Support Board Administrator Username: Desosms Post Number: 1795 Registered: 08-2008 |
Hi Chris, I had a talk with a couple of our engineers about this, and they don't have any familiarity with the APIs for interfacing with PerfMon. You wouldn't happen to have any pointers would you? -- Des NowSMS Support | |||
| Chris New member Username: Chrisc Post Number: 31 Registered: 12-2008 |
Hi Des Further to the discussion in the other post, getting NowSMS to interact with perfmon will greatly help us diagnose any issues when things get a bit rough I've spoken to our IT director who is a perfmon guru and we can point you guys in the right direction. Have a look at: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.diagnostics.performancecountertyp e.aspx http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.diagnostics.performancecounter.as px http://www.codeproject.com/KB/cs/PerfCounterCreation.aspx These should provide a good explanation of what we're on about. We've got a specific list of counters we would like to see from you guys, but I'm not able to paste in here without messing it up. Is there any way of me emailing the list of counters we'd like to you? Thanks Chris | |||
| Des - NowSMS Support Board Administrator Username: Desosms Post Number: 1864 Registered: 08-2008 |
Hi Chris, We have been looking into this a little further, and have found the information on MSDN that describes how to create and implement your own performance counters. It's still a bit overwhelming, as the interfaces for creating the performance counters are a bit unusual. We haven't gotten as far as any proof of concept yet, which would tell us how much effort would be involved in a full implementation. But let me ask you this ... since your IT director is something of a perfmon guru. Is there any way to monitor perfmon data via SNMP? We periodically get requests for monitoring via SNMP, and perfmon does look like it would be easier to implement than direct SNMP. -- Des NowSMS Support | |||
| Chris New member Username: Chrisc Post Number: 33 Registered: 12-2008 |
Hi Des It does seem to be possible to do, but since we do not know the ins and outs of your software it would be best if you guys take a look into it and decide on your own interpretation of what can be done. I also had a chat with our Infrastructure Manager and he's also saying monitoring via SNMP will be of a great help. Does Google provide you with any help?  Regards Chris | |||
| Chris New member Username: Chrisc Post Number: 39 Registered: 12-2008 |
Hi Des Thought I'd chase this up and perhaps get an update to how you guys are doing with integrating performance counters into NowSMS? We have been able to create a form of monitoring using the XML posts and that has helped to a degree, including our overall message throughput rate. However, we'd still to view these statistics in a real-time environment and with a few more specific counters in place. If you can provide an update to us regarding this it will be highly appreciated. Regards Chris | |||
| Des - NowSMS Support Board Administrator Username: Desosms Post Number: 2058 Registered: 08-2008 |
Hi Chris, I'm sorry, but no progress has been made in this area. Our primary focus over the last two months has been on significant performance improvements when there are large message queues (especially when combined with a large number of outbound SMSC connections). We may be able to revisit this issue after that work is complete. -- Des NowSMS Support | |||
| Frank Danielson New member Username: Fdanielson Post Number: 7 Registered: 02-2006 |
FWIW- If you're considering adding monitoring capabilities to the software SNMP would be much more useful to us than Windows PerfMon. | |||
