Had a nightmare of a task yesterday to configure SX for faster access over VPN. The only solution was to do it browser less , anyone who knows and / or has used ChrissXpress will agree , that its extremely slow and tightly bound around Java 1.3.1 .

The solution was to download all of the jar files from the framework and copy them over to JAVA_HOME/lib and create a small script to launch it by clicking.

Following is the script i slapped together for achieving this task , it automatically setups the $CLASSPATH & $PROPERTIES FILE which are required for SX to run. The properties file is project specific and needs to be collected from the platform it self.

set CLASSPATH=

for %%i in (*.jar) do call addpath.bat %%i

echo CLASSPATH : %CLASSPATH%

echo CLASSPATH : %CLASSPATH% >> SXClientLog.txt

rem   ————————————

rem   Call java

rem   ————————————

echo Starting…

java -classpath “%CLASSPATH%” -Xmx160m at.siemens.servicexpress.sxfw.capp.appbase.SxJApplet %PROPERTY_FILE% >> SXClientLog.txt 2>&1

echo Append CLASSPATH with %1 >> SXClientLog.txt

set CLASSPATH=%1;%CLASSPATH%

shift

:args

if “%1″==”" goto noargs

echo Append CLASSPATH with %1 >> SXClientLog.txt

set CLASSPATH=%1;%CLASSPATH%

shift

goto args

:noargs

access-list outside_nat extended permit ip [vpn client network] 255.255.255.0 any

global (outside) 1 interface

nat (outside) 1 access-list outside_nat

group-policy DfltGrpPolicy attributes

dns-server value [dns server]

nem enable

group-policy VPN attributes

split-tunnel-policy tunnelall

split-tunnel-network-list none

Mbuni consits of

1. MMS Relay
2. MMS Proxy
3. MMS From Email
4. MMSbox

For this sepecific purpose , only MMSBOX is required. I expect that you’re already familiar with either Kannel and / or Mbuni ‘s basic configuration.  So I’ll just focus on MMSBox MM7 integration.

group = mmsc

id = local

mmsc-url = http://username:password@ipaddr:port/mm7/mm7tomms.sh

incoming-username = incominguser

incoming-password = incomingpass

incoming-port = incomingport

allowed-prefix = Prefixes

type = soap

The “mmsc-url” bit is the most important one as it is used for submit_mms over mm7 , this piece of information is provided by the operator , the extra bit [ /mm7/mm7tomms.sh ] is specific to Jinny’s MMSC and your submit URL might be different [ pls. confirm this with your operator ].

The incoming user name , password & port are using to receive “MO-AT” messages over MM7 from the operator. This information will be provided by you to the operator for configuration on their side . Once a AT MMS is received by Mbuni , it can decide based on the service parameters  on exactly what to do with the mms.

The prefixes are the CC+NDC [ Country Code + National Dialing Codes ] that will be allowed for sending over this mm7 connection. Some samples can be +93;+92;+937;07;+923;03 . Make sure you define it in National [ 07X ] , International [ +937X] & Unknown [ 937X] in order to properly cater for the messages [ both incoming & outgoing  ] .

Fire up mmsbox , hit the url with http://ipaddr:port/cgi-bin/sendmms?username=X&password=Y&to=XXXX&from=YYYY&smil=<INSERT SMIL CONTENTS HERE>

Cheers!

I just realized that i posted the last post after 1.5 Years Everything has  been a roller coaster ride since i moved to Afghanistan to work full time at a mobile operator Just couldn’t get enough time to update the blog , but i promise to keep posting off and on now

Currently in Dubai for 2 weeks , hopefully will be in Pakistan for the weekend , India in 2 weeks and then off to Europe for 2 months in July.

Life’s Good Alhamdulillah !

Cheers!

I wanted a way to quickly pick , loadup and analyze tickets from our IN platform, ( we’re talking about 1.3 Mil + rows for one file in peak hours )  Waseem [ http://convergence.pk ] , was kind enough to spare some time for the setup and we ended up with infobright [ http://infobright.com ] community edition.

Infobright’s based on MySQL and uses knowledge base + vertical coloums , which end up making queries run ridiculously fast.

I’ve compared the results on 122 Million rows , running on oracle [ old setup ] & infobright  [ new setup ] and the results are amazing , a single query on oracle takes 15 minutes to get the results , whereas the same query takes around 2 minutes on infobright

I’ll share the details for the setup , once its finished

Cheers.

Looking forward to a roller coaster ride inshAllah!

1. Make sure gcc , gcc-c++ , bison , flex , make , openssl and openssl-devel are present

2. yum -y install boost-devel

3. export BOOST_ROOT=/usr/include/

4. Get ACE Here .

5. tar xvf ACE-5.5.tar.gz

6. cd ACE_wrappers

7. mkdir build

8. cd build

9. Patch the configure file

— configure.orig 2008-08-05 11:11:19.000000000 -0800
+++ configure 2008-08-05 11:13:30.000000000 -0800
…
@@ -10329,7 +10329,7 @@ _ACEOF
*)
{ echo “$as_me:$LINENO: enabling GNU G++ visibility attribute support” >&5
echo “$as_me: enabling GNU G++ visibility attribute support” >&6;}
- ACE_GXX_VISIBILITY_FLAGS=”-fvisibility=hidden -fvisibility-inlines-hidden”
+ ACE_GXX_VISIBILITY_FLAGS=”-fvisibility=hidden”
ACE_CXXFLAGS=”$ACE_CXXFLAGS $ACE_GXX_VISIBILITY_FLAGS”
cat >>confdefs.h <<\_ACEOF

10. cd build ; ../configure

11. make && make install

12. export ACE_ROOT=/usr/local/src/ACE_wrappers/

13. tar xvf opendiameter-1.0.7-i.tar.gz

14. cd opendiameter-1.0.7-i

15. ./configure

16. make

17. make install