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User Guide
This page provides a brief overview of and links to some
important pages. They contain basic information to allow starting to use the
Ozeki NG - SMS Gateway software for SMS messaging as soon as you have
downloaded and installed it.
Once you have successfully finished
installing
Ozeki NG - SMS Gateway, you need to configure it. To
start the configuration, you need to log in.
Essential information about the login process and the basic
configuration steps is provided in
QuickStart Guide. A helpful
video tutorial is also included.
Both the login and the configuration can be performed
using the graphical user interface (GUI) of the software.
For details about the components of the GUI, check out the
Graphical User Interface (GUI) page,
as well as the links you can find there. Of course, you can also find further
information on the Graphical User Interface by studying the
QuickStart Guide
If you should have difficulty logging in, check out the
Login Problems page.
Under Graphical user
interface you will find the following pages:
- Menu: This page enlists
all the available menu functions in Ozeki NG SMS Gateway.
- Toolbar: On this page you will
find detailed introduction on the toolbar buttons of GUI in Ozeki NG
SMS Gateway.
- Service provider connectivity:
Learn how to add a new service provider connection in Ozeki NG SMS
Gateway on this page.
- Users and applications: Read
this article about how to add new users or applications in Ozeki NG
SMS Gateway.
- Export messages to Excel: This
page demonstrates how to export SMS messages to Excel.
- Addressbook: On this page you
can learn how to use the addressbook of Ozeki NG SMS Gateway.
- Import/Export addressbook: This guide
provides you a detailed explanation on how to import and export contacts in
the addressbook of Ozeki NG SMS Gateway.
- Separate addressbook for each user: Find
an example on how users can receive messages with the sender's name to make
identification of the sender easier. Since each user has a separate addressbook
in Ozeki NG SMS Gateway, you need to create a new account for new contacts in
all of the addressbooks of users.
- Ozeki SMS Client: This guide
enlists the possible message statuses in Ozeki SMS client.
- Sound and alerts: This section
introduces sounds and alerts on incoming and outgoing messages in
Ozeki NG SMS Gateway.
- Schedule SMS sending: Learn how to schedule
SMS messages for later sending.
- Send SMS to multiple recipients: On this
page you can find a brief overview about how you can send the same SMS text
message to more than one recipient using one of the various sending methods.
- Send SMS to contact groups: On this page
you will find solutions on how to send SMS text messages to contact groups using
the various sending methods with Ozeki NG SMS Gateway.
The Configuration
Page offers further links on the available users and applications
and service provider connections in Ozeki NG SMS Gateway. Under
Configuration menu you will find the follows:
- Inbound routing: This article
explains how to configure inbound routing for SMS sending in Ozeki
NG SMS Gateway.
- Multiple keywords:
On this page multiple keywords for inbound routing are
listed.
- SQL routing:
Learn how to control which service provider connection or GSM modem
will be used to send out SMS messages at the SQL level.
- Outbound routing: Learn how
to configure outbound routing for SMS sending in Ozeki NG SMS
Gateway. Further information:
- Least cost
routing: This page offers information on the
configuration of least cost routing in Ozeki NG SMS
Gateway.
- Backup routing: In
this article you can read about how to configure backup
routing for SMS sending in Ozeki NG SMS Gateway.
- Multi provider: On
this page you can find information on how to configure
more than one service provider connection in Ozeki NG
SMS Gateway.
- Regular expressions:
This page provides detailed information on regular
expressions with "AND" and "OR".
- Convert local phone numbers into international
ones: On this page you will find a an outbound route condition that will
allow to convert local phone numbers into international form.
- SQL logging: Ozeki NG allows you
to maintain a log of every incoming and outgoing SMS in a database. On
this page you will find detailed information on this option.
- SQL templates page
offers SQL commands to be used to log incoming and outgoing
messages into the database.
- SQL log tracking: Learn
how you can save a copy of SQL commands on this page.
- MySQL table layout: On this
page you can find the database connection information and the
database layout to setup SQL reporting in a MySQL database server.
- Keywords: This page includes
the following keywords that can be used in the SQL templates used
for logging outgoing and incoming SMS messages.
- Outlook spy: This guide gives you
the steps you should take to specify a custom phone number field to be
used in the Outlook SMS plugin.
- Source routing: On this page you
will find information on how to select which service provider connection
should be used to send out an SMS message in Ozeki NG SMS Gateway.
- Sender address: This article
demonstrates how you can specify the sender's address in outgoing
messages.
- Content manipulation: Ozeki NG
SMS Gateway allows message content modification during routing. Read
more about this feature on this page.
- Charset handling: This guide gives you
informatino about message length and character set handling of SMS messages.
This is an important topic concerning costs. Please read through it to make
sure you are able to configure the system according to your preferences.
On Client software
page you can find further links on the possible client desktop software
products that are able to communicate with Ozeki NG SMS Gateway. These
are the follows:
- Outlook client: On this page
you can learn how to send SMS messages from MS Outlook with the help
of Ozeki NG SMS Gateway.
- Ozeki SMS client: This page details
the method of sending SMS messages from Ozeki SMS client.
- Import addressbook:
Learn how you can edit the addressbook of Ozeki NG SMS Gateway
effectively.
- Excel SMS client page provides a
step by step configuration that explains how to send SMS messages from
Excel with Ozeki NG SMS Gateway.
- Excel client macros:
Read an introduction about the Excel files you need to use,
Messages.xls spreadsheet, what each column is for, how to
configure the Excel macro connection and how to set the
appropriate security level in the Excel client file to allow
sending messages.
- Bulk messaging in Excel:
This page demonstrates an example on how to send great numbers of
SMS text messages from Excel easily and swiftly. In case of huge
numbers of SMS messages you need to export messages into CSV file
format before sending. In this way Ozeki NG SMS Gateway will send out
your messages seamless. Please follow the configuration steps and
check the screen shots and video tutorial to adopt this solution
properly.
- Command line client page explains how
you can send SMS messages with command line client executing a SendSMS.exe
file.
On Administrator's guide
page you can find further helpful links that lead to pages intended for
system administrators.
- Configuration files: This page
provides information about low level configuration by editing configuration
files as an alternative method to using the graphical user interface to
configure the Ozeki NG SMS Gateway.
- Global
environment: Be familiar with the directives that
control and affect the operation of SMS server.
- SMSC connections:
This page includes information on the possible SMSC
connections in Ozeki NG SMS Gateway with links
to SMPP, CIMD2, and UCP connections.
- User accounts: This
page enlists the available user accounts in Ozeki NG SMS
Gateway. Links to each of the connections are also
provided (standard, SMPP, UCP, CIMD2, SQL, HTTP client,
HTTP server user)
- Load balancing for SMPP: Learn how
to achieve load balancing feature of Ozeki NG SMS Gateway to join a
transmitter and a receiver connection from a GSM/CDMA service provider.
- Troubleshooting: On this page you
can find links to troubleshooting pages: login problems, full uninstall,
SMS sending error, ESM class, bypass proxy, IP SMS timeout, error codes.
- Backup: Please find information on
why you should back up the configuration and other data of the Ozeki NG
SMS Gateway and how to restore data from backup.
- Manual uninstallation: This guide
demonstrates how you can uninstall Ozeki NG SMS Gateway manually.
- Manual upgrade: The manual upgrade
of Ozeki NG SMS Gateway is explained on this page.
- Performance: Find information on how
to configure Ozeki NG SMS Gateway for high performance and for long term
operation.
- High volume SMS messaging page shows
how to build a high volume SMS messaging system.
- Ozeki Performance Tester: This article
demonstrates how to test performance of Ozeki NG SMS Gateway with Ozeki
Performance Tester tool.
- Recommended computer: This guide
gives details on the way Ozeki NG SMS Gateway uses the computer resources
and provides hardware configuration examples and recommends specific
computer models for certain usage.
- Bandwidth: On this page you can
learn what bandwidth requirements depend on.
- Bandwidth calculation example: Learn how to
calculate bandwidth in Ozeki NG SMS Gateway with the help of this example.
- Manual installation: This guide
demonstrates how to restore Ozeki NG SMS Gateway from a backup and how
to install it manually.
- Clustering: This article gives
information on how to build an Ozeki NG SMS Gateway cluster to have
a redundant SMS system.
- SNMP: Find information on how
to setup SNMP monitoring for Ozeki NG SMS Gateway on this page.
- Migration/Hardware Replacement:
This page provides detailed instructions on how you can keep your original
settings after you migrated your Ozeki NG SMS Gateway.
- Message priorities:
On this page you can learn how to affect message sending order. With this
solution you will be able to send out your high priority messages first, before
low priority messages.
- Message queues:
In Ozeki NG SMS Gateway message queues are used for scheduling messages coming
from users to being sent out. Therefore, it can be ensured that messages of each
user will be sent out even in cases when one user has a great number of messages
waiting for sending in its message queue.
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