On Thu, 2002-04-04 at 22:23, Mauricio Ramos wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> I'm testing the Kannel 1.1.x CVS Cygwin Port for Win32 and the variable
> "account" (SendSMS-User group) in the kannel configuration file doesn't work
> accordingly to the Userguide. I configured this variable like this:
>
> group = sendsms-user
> username = telemig
> password = foobar
> forced-smsc = TELCO
> faked-sender = 25100
> account = 25100
> #user-deny-ip = ""
> #user-allow-ip = ""
>
> When I use it, the Bearerbox doesn't load raising these errors in the
> console:
>
> 2002-04-03 00:14:43 [0] INFO: Debug_lvl = -1, log_file = <none>, log_lvl = 0
> 2002-04-03 00:14:43 [0] ERROR: Group 'sendsms-user' may not contain field
> 'account'.
> 2002-04-03 00:14:43 [0] ERROR: Error found on 83 of file smskannel.conf.
> 2002-04-03 00:14:43 [0] PANIC: No configuration or bad configuration,
> aborting.
>
> I'm curious about this because it should work since it's in the Userguide
> ("Table 5-8. SendSMS-User Group Variables") and an empty field "[ACT:] "
> appeared in the kannel.access file, like this:
Thanks for noticing it. The documentation is wrong and I've commited
patch to fix it.
Account is a CGI variable that should be used to separate services for
billing.
For example, I have few services and I don't trust clients ;) and some
services should have fixed from numbers, so I have several sendsms-users
to recognize them. (using the name field in configuration)
But if you trust the clients, the sendsms-users are alike and you need
alot of them, it's painfull to have several sendsms-users.
Then, you can have just one sendsms-user and ask the client to fill the
&account=<something> with a keyword that you can, later, check in
bearerbox_access.log and do the billing.
>
> 2002-04-02 20:52:45 Log begins
> 2002-04-02 20:53:33 Sent SMS [SMSC:TELCO] [SVC:telemig] [ACT:] [from:25200]
> [to:3199910003] [flags:0:1:0:0:0] [msg:5:Hello] [udh:0:]
I'm doing statistics based on SVC (sendsms-user name or smsservice
name).
You can use AC(coun)t too for it.
BTW: People, how are your telco companies doing the billing using kannel
logs ? Are you generating CDR's with it ? and what about pre-paids ?
