CIMD2 to SMPP gateway

Ozeki SMPP gateway can be used by SMS service providers to serve multiple customer using CIMD2 SMS clients. In this guide, we show you how to setup an authentication provider to create CIMD2 client accounts automatically.

Step 1 - Add new connection

The first step is to connect to the SMPP service provider. To do this, you need to create an SMPP client connection. Click on the "Add new connection ..." as you can see on the Figure 1.

Step 2 - SMPP Client connection

Select the SMPP Client connection from the list and click Install (Figure 2).

Step 3 - SMPP client user data

Now enter the contact details like Host, port, username and password. And enter the phone number that the SMS Gateway uses to send the message. Finally click on the OK button (Figure 3).

Step 4 - Client Connected

Next step is to enable the connection. If the connection is established with the service provider you can see the green pipe ikon (Figure 4).

Step 5 - Open Control Panel

We then need to establish a database connection so that we can authenticate users through the database. Open the Control Panel from the Start menu (Figure 5).

Step 6 - Create new Connection

In the Control Panel click on the Create new Connection button and select the Application type (Figure 6).

Step 7 - Database conncetion

Then select the Database application type (Figure 7).

Step 8 - SQL queries type connection

Now select the SQL queries type (Figure 8).

Step 9 - Mysql connection

In this description we are now using a Mysql database so we choose the Mysql type but you choose the database in which your users are stored (Figure 9). The connection method is very similar for all database types.

Step 10 - Provide database connection details

In the Connection details page provide the server IP address, the port, the database name the UserID and the users Password then click on the OK button (Figure 10).

Step 11 - Database connected

In teh Connection page you can see if the database connection is established (Figure 11).

Step 12 - Open Advanced menu

The next step is to create an authentication provider for the users. To do this, click the Advanced button on the SMS gatway home page (Figure 12).

Step 13 - Create new Authentication povider

In the advanced menu, select the Authentication providers section and click the Create new Authentication provider button. Then select the Database option (Figure 13).

Step 14 - Specify SQL query

On the Authentication provider details page, select the previously created database connection and enter the SQL query what is used for authenticate the users (Figure 14).

Step 15 - User database table

In this example, we use the database table shown in Figure 15 to store users.

Step 16 - Create new Service

Now create the CIMD2 service that clients can connect to. In the advanced menu, select the Services section and click the Create new Service button (Figure 16).

Step 17 - Create SMS Service

Select SMS service option (Figure 17).

Step 18 - CIMD2 Service

And then the CIMD2 type (Figure 18).

Step 19 - Specify Connection details

On the CIMD2 Details page, enter the name of the service and the port you will use (Figure 19).

Step 20 - Set authentication method

Then, on the Advanced tab, in the User authentication section, select the database authentication mode you created earlier and click OK (Figure 20).

Step 21 - CIMD2 service created

In the service menu you can see that the CIMD2 service is created. Click the Details button (Figure 21).

Step 22 - CIMD2 clients connected

On the events tab, you can see that clients have successfully connected using database authentication (Figure 22).

Step 23 - Users created

On the main page of the SMS Gateway, it can be seen that a separate CIMD2 User has been created for each client (Figure 23).

Step 24 - Message received from CIMD2

When an SMS is received from a client, it is displayed on the corresponding user events tab (Figure 24).

Step 25 - Message sent in SMPP

The events tab of the SMPP connection shows that the sms was sent to the service provider using the SMPP protocol (Figure 25).

More information

• CIMD to SMPP protocol converter
• CIMD to SMPP gateway
• SMPP to CIMD2 protocol converter
• SMPP to CIMD gateway