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| Andrew New member Username: Xserver1 Post Number: 1 Registered: 06-2010 |
I am currently testing the trial version of NowSMS and it is working as per the expectations. But i would like to know that does NowSMS offers any Web Administration SDK by which i can write down an application to talk to NowSMS configs directly ? It will make my life real easy as i never want to give access of the NowSMS Server to my support team. Regards Andrew | |||
| Des - NowSMS Support Board Administrator Username: Desosms Post Number: 2273 Registered: 08-2008 |
Hi Andrew, There are a couple of web APIs, but they don't give you full access to the server configuration. (For example, adding/deleting/modifying SMSC connections ... for that you need to use VNC or Remote Desktop.) User account provisioning is described here: http://www.nowsms.com/support/bulletins/tb-nowsms-013.htm And a status/statistics for monitoring is described here: http://blog.nowsms.com/search/label/statistics There is also a limited web interface for user account provisioning, statistics and accessing log files. It is enabled with with a setting on the "Web" page of the NowSMS configuration dialog, and it is accessed by adding "/admin" to the NowSMS URL. -- Des NowSMS Support | |||
| Des - NowSMS Support Board Administrator Username: Desosms Post Number: 2275 Registered: 08-2008 |
Hi Andrew, There are a couple of web APIs, but they don't give you full access to the server configuration. (For example, adding/deleting/modifying SMSC connections ... for that you need to use VNC or Remote Desktop.) User account provisioning is described here: http://www.nowsms.com/support/bulletins/tb-nowsms-013.htm And a status/statistics for monitoring is described here: http://blog.nowsms.com/search/label/statistics There is also a limited web interface for user account provisioning, statistics and accessing log files. It is enabled with with a setting on the "Web" page of the NowSMS configuration dialog, and it is accessed by adding "/admin" to the NowSMS URL. -- Des NowSMS Support | |||
| Andrew New member Username: Xserver1 Post Number: 2 Registered: 06-2010 |
Any provision to add / edit SMSC connection , stop / start NowSMS Service and do more advances stuff over Web ? | |||
| Andrew New member Username: Xserver1 Post Number: 3 Registered: 06-2010 |
i will add all my queries to this respective post. 1. How can we route a SMPP Client to a specific upstream SMPP gateway. I already have the idea to route numbers to specific gateway but what if i want to route all traffic of a #SMPPCLIENT1 to #1.SMPPGW and #SMPPCLIENT2 through #2.SMPPGW | |||
| Des - NowSMS Support Board Administrator Username: Desosms Post Number: 2279 Registered: 08-2008 |
No. There are some customers who do their own direct modification of the SMSGW.INI file. If the service needs to restart, it can update ConfigurationUpdateTriggerRestart= under the [SMSGW] header of SMSGW.INI. Normally, you just set this value to local time YYYYMMDDHHMMSS. If NowSMS sees that this value has changed to a larger value it triggers the service to restart. (Adding/deleting SMSC connections requires a service restart at this time.)
It depends on your requirements. For simple requirements, you can force a sender address to be applied to all messages from a user account, and use sender based routing. For more advanced requirements, there are the AllowedUser settings. There's a simple example that explains them here: http://support.nowsms.com/discus/messages/1/24836.html(search on AllowedUserOnly for more). For even more advanced configurations, it is possible to implement an HTTP based routing callback. Basically, when a message is submitted, we ask you how to route it. If you are implementing accounting callbacks for user charging, you may want to consider this, because it happens in one of the accounting callbacks, so it doesn't add any additional overhead. The process is described here: http://blog.nowsms.com/2009/01/dynamic-sms-message-routing-with-http.html -- Des NowSMS Support | |||
| Andrew New member Username: Xserver1 Post Number: 4 Registered: 06-2010 |
I am working on Dynamic Sender ID's. A Single SMPP User Account will pass multiple sender id. which is out of my control. So what will be useful is to route the entire SMPP user to a specific upstream gateway. ( maybe i can add route string in SMSGW.INI ? ) As of now i am not using NowSMS for accounting callbacks. | |||
| Des - NowSMS Support Board Administrator Username: Desosms Post Number: 2280 Registered: 08-2008 |
The limitation of the AllowedUser settings is that you mark an SMSC connection as "AllowedUserOnly=Yes". This means that a user can only have messages routed to that connection if they are explicitly allowed. It works well for a system with a few outbound SMSC links, and a manageable number of user accounts. However, the logic is that the SMSC connection is restricted until one or more users are allowed to use it. This works for a lot of scenarios. But it seems to be the inverse of what you are asking for. You're looking at each user, and applying route restrictions to each user. By contrast, we're looking at each connection and applying user restrictions to the route. You can accomplish most of the same restrictions either way. The links from that other discussion thread have a better description. -- Des NowSMS Support | |||
| Andrew New member Username: Xserver1 Post Number: 5 Registered: 06-2010 |
I tried restriction the user to a particular SMSC . But it seems that the user is sending msg through the uplink SMPP which have "support any outbound traffic" [SMSGW] WebAuth=Yes WebMenu=Yes WebPort=8800 IPAddress=99.99.99.99 SMPPPort=9999 Modem1=SMPP - 111.111.111.111:111 Debug=Yes AdminUser=admin AdminPassword=admin ReceiveSMS=No ReceiveMMS=No Modem2=SMPP - 123.123.123:123 [SMPP - 111.111.111.111:111] SMPPVersion=v3.4 UserName=smpp1 Password=pwd1 SenderAddressOverride=Yes Receive=Yes ReceiveMMS=No UseSSL=No LongSMSAlt=Yes WindowSize=20 RetryDelay=30 RetryDelayMultiplier=0 RetryDelayAfterAttempts=1 RetryMaxAttempts=1 [SMPP - 123.123.123.123:123] SMPPVersion=v3.4 UserName=smpp2 Password=pwd2 SenderAddressOverride=Yes Receive=Yes ReceiveMMS=No UseSSL=No LongSMSAlt=Yes WindowSize=20 RetryDelay=30 RetryDelayMultiplier=0 RetryDelayAfterAttempts=1 RetryMaxAttempts=1 AllowedUserOnly=Yes AllowedUser1=user1; user1 is in NowSMS user list but the messages are sent via SMPP - 111.111.111.111 Any Idea ? | |||
| Des - NowSMS Support Board Administrator Username: Desosms Post Number: 2288 Registered: 08-2008 |
Remove the ";" after user1. If multiple users need to be specified, they are specified like this: AllowedUser1=usera AllowedUser2=userb | |||
| Andrew New member Username: Xserver1 Post Number: 6 Registered: 06-2010 |
I tried without ";" but result is still the same. Do i need to restrict all the SMPP connection and explicitly allow users to use the SMPP ? What i mean to say is NowSMS logic looks for "Support Any Outbound Message Traffic" and then checks for the "AlloweduserOnly" or vice versa ? | |||
| Des - NowSMS Support Board Administrator Username: Desosms Post Number: 2299 Registered: 08-2008 |
Sorry Andrew, I forgot how this setting works. You're right the "AllowedUser" is evaluated secondary, after other routing logic is evaluated. If other routes are do not have AllowedUserOnly=Yes, then an "AllowedUser" on one connection could also be routed via any unrestricted routes. This is different from how the "preferred" recipient address masks work ... and different from the "sender" matching. I was definitely wrong in suggesting these settings. Unless you can apply AllowedUserOnly=Yes to the other connections, and list allowed users for those other connections, this will not work. I need to go back and discuss this with some other members of our team. Maybe there is some other alternative that I am forgetting. Or maybe we need to figure out how to add a new configuration setting to simply force a user to a particular route, without requiring all routes to have user restrictions. -- Des NowSMS Support | |||
