How does the data_coding field work

2011-06-23 Thread brett skinner
Hi I have read through the SMPP v3.4 spec, the Kannel user guide and some other PDFs from the SMS Forum but I am still a little in the dark about this field. Please correct me where I am wrong: It seems that the data_coding field is made up of 2 distinct sections. Firstly, coding scheme, bits 3

Re: Why does Kannel not use sar_total_segments and sar_segment_seqnum when sending concatenated sms?

2011-01-18 Thread brett skinner
Hi guys. Does anyone have an ideas to my question below? Thanks, On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 11:35 AM, brett skinner wrote: > Hi > > I was looking through the logs and saw that Kannel sends concatenated SMSs > using UDH in the Short Message fields. From reading the SMPP spec I was

Why does Kannel not use sar_total_segments and sar_segment_seqnum when sending concatenated sms?

2011-01-13 Thread brett skinner
Hi I was looking through the logs and saw that Kannel sends concatenated SMSs using UDH in the Short Message fields. From reading the SMPP spec I was under the impression that the same thing could be achieved by using sar_total_segments and sar_segment_seqnum. Did I misinterpret the spec or does K

Re: Rerouting SMSs

2010-10-11 Thread brett skinner
; > > BR, > Nikos > - Original Message - From: brett skinner > To: Users > Sent: Monday, October 11, 2010 11:13 AM > Subject: Re: Rerouting SMSs > > > > Hi Nikos > > > Yes, you are correct. Terribly sorry for leaving out that vital piece of > information

Re: Rerouting SMSs

2010-10-11 Thread brett skinner
R, > Nikos > ----- Original Message - From: brett skinner > To: Users > Sent: Monday, October 11, 2010 10:45 AM > Subject: Rerouting SMSs > > > > Hi > > > We have had a couple of scenarios where a smsc that we are sending to > suddenly goes offline. We don

Rerouting SMSs

2010-10-11 Thread brett skinner
Hi We have had a couple of scenarios where a smsc that we are sending to suddenly goes offline. We don't want to flood our bearerbox with SMS so we only give it up to 400. When the smsc goes down we continue to try send to that bind until the bearerbox queue is at about 400 then it stops and we no

Re: Weird binding issue that causes queues to build up.

2010-09-23 Thread brett skinner
958.html > > Regards > -- > Abdulmnem Benaiad > Almontaha CTO > www.almontaha.ly > Tripoli-Libya > > > > On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 2:58 PM, brett skinner > wrote: > >> Hi >> >> We are using transmitter and receiver because apparently there are >>

Weird binding issue that causes queues to build up.

2010-09-23 Thread brett skinner
gt; I beleave that there is another workaround for this by defining two smsc > groups one for Tx and the other for Rx. > > Regards > > -- > Benaiad > > > > On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 11:21 AM, brett skinner > wrote: > >> Hi guys >> >> We have just hit th

Fwd: Weird binding issue that causes queues to build up.

2010-09-23 Thread brett skinner
-- From: brett skinner Date: Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 2:16 PM Subject: Re: Weird binding issue that causes queues to build up. To: Users Hi We have experienced this problem again. A couple of our binds to one particular smsc (the rest were okay) had connectivity issues last night at 12 AM. The binds

Re: Weird binding issue that causes queues to build up.

2010-09-17 Thread brett skinner
transceiver. Regards, On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 3:42 PM, brett skinner wrote: > Thanks Alvaro for your response. > > I am running a build from SVN from about a 2 weeks ago. I am bit weary of > turning the loggers to debug mode because we are doing a lot of traffic and > debug mode

Fwd: Weird binding issue that causes queues to build up.

2010-09-09 Thread brett skinner
2 vias via > SMS y GPRS online > Visitenos en www.perusms.NET www.smsglobal.com.mx y > www.pravcom.com > > > > On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 2:42 AM, brett skinner > wrote: > > Hi everyone > > Just wondering if anyone has had a chance to look at this yet? > > Th

Fwd: Weird binding issue that causes queues to build up.

2010-09-09 Thread brett skinner
Hi everyone Just wondering if anyone has had a chance to look at this yet? Thanks and appreciate any help. -- Forwarded message -- From: brett skinner Date: Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 10:47 AM Subject: Weird binding issue that causes queues to build up. To: Users Hi We are

Weird binding issue that causes queues to build up.

2010-09-07 Thread brett skinner
Hi We are experiencing a rather weird occasional issue with Kannel. We have two different boxes each with a Kannel installation. Every now and then one of the boxes stops processing SMS queues and the queues just build up. This happens to both boxes (just not at the same time) When we have a look

Re: Kannel with vb6

2010-08-30 Thread brett skinner
VB 6 is no longer supported and is definitely not VB.net. In any event, if you want to use Kannel on Windows the recommendation is that you use something like Cygwin. Another option is to use Mono to run .Net applications on a Linux box. Not sure if the Mono project compiles VB.Net but I am sure yo

Re: How does Kannel handle DLRs from multiple binds to the same SMSC

2010-08-26 Thread brett skinner
7;t find it. > > > > See the external DB DLR storage options here: > > > http://www.kannel.org/download/kannel-userguide-snapshot/userguide.html#AEN3170 > > > > > > On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 5:09 PM, brett skinner > > wrote: > >> Hi > >> > &g

How does Kannel handle DLRs from multiple binds to the same SMSC

2010-08-25 Thread brett skinner
Hi In an effort to increase through put our SMSC suggested that we created another bind to them with the exact same details. I.e. username, password, IP address and port. In our configuration file I have created a second bind with a different ID but have set both SMPP connections to use the same a

Re: Kannel restart command

2010-08-24 Thread brett skinner
our configuration, while bb is running. Then, from the > admin page choose: > > add-smsc > > Let me know how it works. > > BR, > Nikos > - Original Message - From: brett skinner > To: Users > Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2010 12:17 PM > > Subject: Re: Kann

Re: Kannel restart command

2010-08-24 Thread brett skinner
art bearerbox. > > BR, > Nikos > - Original Message - From: "Alvaro Cornejo" < > cornejo.alv...@gmail.com> > To: "brett skinner" > Cc: "Users" > Sent: Monday, August 23, 2010 5:57 PM > Subject: Re: Kannel restart command &

Kannel restart command

2010-08-23 Thread brett skinner
Hi Users We had a situation on Saturday where one of our SMSC experienced connection difficulties with their ISP. When they came back 2 of the 3 binds were re-established correctly. The 3rd bind reported being connected but all messages to that bind were getting queued to the bearerbox. I looked a

Re: Queue Size from status page

2010-08-18 Thread brett skinner
10 at 10:07 AM, brett skinner wrote: > Hi Nikos > > We already have all of messages load balanced by an upstream application. > When the messages hit Kannel we are forcing them to go via a certain smsc > using the smsc flag and the allowed-smsc-id in the config file. We have >

Re: Queue Size from status page

2010-08-18 Thread brett skinner
e been able to send 5 messages in 5 seconds which 1 msg/sec and I set it to 0.05. I could be missing the obvious. Regards, 2010/8/18 Nikos Balkanas > Don't worry, > > bearerbox does smsc load balance, and everything else been equal it will > send through SMSc with mallest

Re: Queue Size from status page

2010-08-17 Thread brett skinner
t; > > You will end up with the figure you probably want to. > > > > == Rene > > > > > > *From:* brett skinner [mailto:tatty.dishcl...@gmail.com] > *Sent:* Tuesday, 17 August, 2010 19:05 > *To:* Rene Kluwen > *Cc:* Users > *Subject:* Re: Queue Size fro

Re: Queue Size from status page

2010-08-17 Thread brett skinner
> > > *From:* users-boun...@kannel.org [mailto:users-boun...@kannel.org] *On > Behalf Of *brett skinner > *Sent:* Tuesday, 17 August, 2010 17:32 > *To:* Users > *Subject:* Queue Size from status page > > > > Hi > > > > I have looked through the user guide f

Fwd: Slow submission from Kannel

2010-08-13 Thread brett skinner
Hi Extra information which might be useful. We are running v1.4.3. Not the SVN version. Our smsc binds are using transceiver. Regards, -- Forwarded message -- From: brett skinner Date: Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 4:30 PM Subject: Slow submission from Kannel To: Users Hi users I am

Slow submission from Kannel

2010-08-13 Thread brett skinner
Hi users I am not sure what is going. Kannel seems to be running quite slowly. Before we submit a batch of SMS to Kannel we parse the status page for the queue size. From the status page I am using: *SMS: received 489 (0 queued), sent 0 (0 queued), store size -1* It seemed to me that the *sent 0

Re: How do i unsubscribe?

2010-08-12 Thread brett skinner
Also you should receive once a month an automated email asking if you still want to be part of the mailing list. There are hyperlinks in that email to go to the website where you unsubscribe. It really shouldn't be that hard unless the system is broken which I doubt. Does this email look familiar

How does Kannel handle DLR for concatenated sms

2010-08-10 Thread brett skinner
Hi I have sent through a couple of long messages. Looking through the logs I can see multiple messages submitted to the SMSC via submit_sm PDUs. However these is only one deliver_sm coming back from the SMSC (at least according to the logs). Is the number of deliver_sm PDUs implementation specific

Re: Kannel performance benchmarking

2010-08-10 Thread brett skinner
do a lot of profiling and find the > bottlenecks either on the DB and the rest of your platform. > > Regards, > > Alex > > On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 11:15 AM, brett skinner > wrote: > >> Hi Alex >> >> That is why I have chosen Innodb for the tables we use f

Re: Kannel performance benchmarking

2010-08-10 Thread brett skinner
ures I gave were sustained rates simulated with a 1-SMS batch. >> Count was sufficient to reach sustainability and reproducibility, yet short >> enough to get results fast. >> >> When i submitted fakesmpp, I also released similar data from a 64bit >> Solaris 10 ser

Re: Kannel performance benchmarking

2010-08-10 Thread brett skinner
sangpr...@gmail.com > http://www.petitiononline.com/froyo/ > > > On Aug 9, 2010, at 11:19 PM, Nikos Balkanas wrote: > > No memory problems. It is reasonable that kannel will use more memory in >> higher traffic, since all queues are in memory, as long as it drops to >&g

Re: Kannel performance benchmarking

2010-08-09 Thread brett skinner
Hi Nikos Out of curiosity can you go into more detail regarding what hardware you were running and your setup for MySql? Were you using Innodb or MyIsam. If you were using Innodb did you make any other configuration changes to MySql to accommodate Innodb. >From the user guide it is implied that t

Fwd: Large and growing number of queued DLR

2010-08-06 Thread brett skinner
Hi Sorry forgot to add that I am using mysql storage -- Forwarded message -- From: brett skinner Date: Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 4:06 PM Subject: Large and growing number of queued DLR To: Users Hi We have been sending sms successfully and receiving the DLRs. As far as I can tell

Large and growing number of queued DLR

2010-08-06 Thread brett skinner
Hi We have been sending sms successfully and receiving the DLRs. As far as I can tell we have been processing them correctly and all the logs in the web application point to no failures. I had a look at the logs for smsbox and there were a couple of URLs that it could not fetch but those have alre

Fwd: SendSMS - HTTP 400 response from Java application but works through Lynx

2010-07-30 Thread brett skinner
Sorry all Please disregard the previous mail. I was being an idiot. The text parameter was not URL encoded. I think lynx will take care of that for you. Apologies. It has been a long week! Regards, -- Forwarded message -- From: brett skinner Date: Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 4:40 PM

SendSMS - HTTP 400 response from Java application but works through Lynx

2010-07-30 Thread brett skinner
Hi All Sorry to ask here but I am not sure where I should be looking for answer. I have message that I am submitting to an SMSC, it is WAP push message SI SMS. We are not going to handle any WAP, we are just sending it from our system. Someone else has handled that part. I have created a java appl

Re: Sending SMS from HTTP

2010-07-27 Thread brett skinner
[3] DEBUG: Status: 202 Answer: > 2010-07-27 14:54:08 [5677] [3] DEBUG: Delayed reply - wait for bearerbox > 2010-07-27 14:54:08 [5677] [0] DEBUG: Got ACK (1) of > b2114636-c178-433f-891d-4f76a2c568e3 > 2010-07-27 14:54:08 [5677] [0] DEBUG: HTTP: Resetting HTTPClient for > `127.0.0.

Re: Sending SMS from HTTP

2010-07-27 Thread brett skinner
Hi Can you also send the URL that you used and the logs from the bearerbox and the smsbox On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 1:01 PM, wrote: > Hi, > > Am new to this kannel business, was able to configure kannel to receive > sms but am having the following errors when sending out from a http call > > 2010

Re: Cannot upgrade Kannel

2010-07-27 Thread brett skinner
net/ > > kannel (1.4.3-0ubuntu2) [universe] >WAP and SMS gateway > kannel-docs (1.4.3-0ubuntu2) [universe] >WAP and SMS gateway documentation > kannel-extras (1.4.3-0ubuntu2) [universe] >WAP and SMS gateway extras > kannel-sqlbox (0.7.2-2) [universe] > > > O

Re: Cannot upgrade Kannel

2010-07-27 Thread brett skinner
Hi I would prefer to not have to compile but to get the package. Is what I have done look correct? On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 1:17 PM, seikath wrote: > its better to compile the cvs version for sure. > > http://kannel.org/download.shtml > > > > On 07/27/2010 02:11 PM, brett

Cannot upgrade Kannel

2010-07-27 Thread brett skinner
Hi This might not be the best place to ask this question. If it isn't then please just let me know. During testing I used Ubuntu 10.4 (Lucid Lynx). Our production servers are running Ubuntu Server 8.04 (Hardy Heron). It appears that the version of Kannel that comes with that version of Ubuntu is 1

Re: dlr table always empty

2010-07-23 Thread brett skinner
Sorry I forgot that second point which Alex made. If you want to do any sort of extra processing or storage then you need to create the other end of the dlr-url parameter. Use something like java servlet or a php script. Look in the userguide to see how to get those values again. Regards, On Fri,

SMS Push reply codes

2010-07-22 Thread brett skinner
Hi Is table 6-15 in the user guide an exhaustive list of the possible reply codes from Kannel? In essence either 0 or 3. Sent or enqueued. I recall seeing other messages such as "Authorization failed for sendsms" but there was no reply code in front. Is it then safe to assume that any response fro

What does Kannel do when an error occurs while requesting URLs

2010-07-16 Thread brett skinner
Hi I search through the documentation but I couldn't find an answer to my question. It might be there I just could not find. I would like to know what Kannel does when either: 1. Trying to do the HTTP get request for the DLR if you are using the dlr-mask and the dlr-url when sending an SMS via th

Re: Mysql Timestamp issue

2010-07-15 Thread brett skinner
d you find ts = 10? > 3) Fix your msg-id-type. Read User's guide about it. > > > BR, > Nikos > - Original Message - From: N'Gole Christian > To: brett skinner > Cc: Nikos Balkanas ; users@kannel.org > Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2010 2:57 PM > > Sub

Re: Mysql Timestamp issue

2010-07-15 Thread brett skinner
*Jeu 15.7.10, Nikos Balkanas * a > écrit : > > > De: Nikos Balkanas > > Objet: Re: Mysql Timestamp issue > À: "N'Gole Christian" , "brett skinner" < > tatty.dishcl...@gmail.com> > Cc: users@kannel.org > Date: Jeudi 15 juillet 2010,

Re: Mysql Timestamp issue

2010-07-15 Thread brett skinner
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Re: Mysql Timestamp issue

2010-07-15 Thread brett skinner
t; > *Cel* : +225 07 74 97 97 > > *Site Web* : www.smseco.com > > > --- En date de : *Jeu 15.7.10, brett skinner *a > écrit : > > > De: brett skinner > Objet: Re: Mysql Timestamp issue > À: "N'Golé Christian" > Cc: users@kannel.org > Date: Je

Re: Mysql Timestamp issue

2010-07-15 Thread brett skinner
Hi Are you using SMPP? If so then the ts field although it would seem is a timestamp but it acutally maps to the unique ID provided by the SMSC for that message. I asked this question a little while ago and that was the answer I got and it seems to be correct from my testing. The group can correct

Re: Preferred engine type for MySql DLR storage

2010-07-14 Thread brett skinner
> Yes, definitely. We tried both, MyISAM performs way better. > > > On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 9:58 AM, brett skinner > wrote: > >> Thanks for the feedback Alex. Are you suggesting that MyISAM is perhaps >> better? >> >> >> On Wed, Jul 14, 2010

Re: Preferred engine type for MySql DLR storage

2010-07-14 Thread brett skinner
xes: one on smsc + ts and the other one on > stamp (to be able to delete old records). > > Regards, > > Alex > > > On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 9:40 AM, brett skinner > wrote: > >> Hi Users >> >> I know this question is more to do with MySQL than Kannel but d

Preferred engine type for MySql DLR storage

2010-07-14 Thread brett skinner
Hi Users I know this question is more to do with MySQL than Kannel but does anyone here have a recommendation on the engine type for the MySQL table. Does Kannel have a preference? At the moment I am using innoDB. With regards to indexes on the table are there any recommendations? Looking at the

Re: Query regarding validity period

2010-07-12 Thread brett skinner
Hi Thanks for the information. I did not know that. :) 2010/7/12 Nikos Balkanas > Nope, I meant what I said. Kannel, at least the smpp driver, sends seconds > to SMSc. > > > BR, > Nikos > - Original Message - From: brett skinner > To: Nikos Balkanas >

Re: Query regarding validity period

2010-07-12 Thread brett skinner
s to SMSc absolute GMT + > your input * 60. > > BR, > Nikos > - Original Message - From: brett skinner > To: users@kannel.org > Sent: Monday, July 12, 2010 11:39 AM > Subject: Query regarding validity period > > > > Hi All > > > I read the

Query regarding validity period

2010-07-12 Thread brett skinner
Hi All I read the following in the user guide regarding validity period *Optional. If given, Kannel will* *inform SMS Center that it should* *only try to send the message for* *this many minutes. If the* *destination mobile is off other* *situation that it cannot receive* *the sms, the smsc disca

Re: Processing reply messages/SMS messages sent from SMSC

2010-07-02 Thread brett skinner
my_smsc > > omit-empty = true > > accept-x-kannel-headers = true > > > > I guess there is more than one way to achieve what you want and one doesn’t > necessarily needs to be better than the other one. > > > > == Rene > > > > > > *From:*

Processing reply messages/SMS messages sent from SMSC

2010-07-02 Thread brett skinner
Hi Firstly I would like to thank the group for all the help that I have received. I really appreciate it. Secondly I have found usig Kannel to be a very pleasant experience so thanks for all the hard work. I unfortunately know absolutely nothing about C and I think my Java knowledge just won't cut

Re: Open DLRs

2010-07-01 Thread brett skinner
uch sense, but is difficult to say, > since you never submitted any logs. > > > BR, > Nikos > - Original Message - From: brett skinner > To: users@kannel.org > Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2010 10:26 AM > > Subject: Re: Open DLRs > > > Hi > > > I

Re: Open DLRs

2010-07-01 Thread brett skinner
submit_sm_resp as a DLR to say enqueued. Regards, 2010/6/30 Nikos Balkanas > Hi, > > How then did you get the submit_sm_resp from the SMSc? > > > BR, > Nikos > - Original Message - From: brett skinner > To: users@kannel.org > Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2010 12:37

Re: Open DLRs

2010-06-30 Thread brett skinner
y talking to your SMSc. > > > BR, > Nikos > ----- Original Message - From: brett skinner > To: users@kannel.org > Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2010 11:17 AM > Subject: Re: Open DLRs > > > > Hi Nikos > > > Thanks for your reply. That is the impression tha

Re: Open DLRs

2010-06-30 Thread brett skinner
on by specifying a dlr-url to your push SMS. You will have to > supply a msg-id to that dlr-url, unique for each MT, since msgid is internal > to kannel and not sent over the dlr-url. > > For more info read User's Guide. > > BR, > Nikos > > - Original Message

Open DLRs

2010-06-30 Thread brett skinner
Hi Reading through the documentation I came across this statement: This is problematic if bearerbox crashes or you take the process down in a controlled way, but there are still DLRs open. Therefore you may use external DLR storage places, i.e. a MySQL database. Does that mean that the MySQL is

Does Kannel always place the message_id from a submit_sm_resp into timestamp for a DLR using SMPP 3.4

2010-06-29 Thread brett skinner
Hi I was checking in the SMPP 3.4 spec and came across the submit_sm_resp PDU which specifies a message_id field. According to the spec: This field contains the SMSC message ID of the submitted message. It may be used at a later stage to query the status of a message, cancel or replace the messag

Re: Datatype for timestamp for mysql dlr storage

2010-06-29 Thread brett skinner
ou can have mysql >> initialize it to current time. >> >> BR, >> Nikos >> - Original Message - From: brett skinner >> To: users@kannel.org >> Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2010 12:12 PM >> Subject: Datatype for timestamp for mysql dlr storage >> &g

Datatype for timestamp for mysql dlr storage

2010-06-29 Thread brett skinner
Hi I am using the mysql dlr storage type. I have everything working except for the timestamp. This is the output from debug mode sql: INSERT INTO delivery_receipts (smsc, received, source, destination, service, url, mask, boxc, status) VALUES ('XXXYYYXXX', '50062911024679487', '+123123123', '+123