Kannel Installation and Configuration as SMS gateway Server

Kannel is an open source WAP gateway and  SMS gateway for GSM networks.  The main use for Kannel is to link HTTP based services to various SMS centers using obscure protocols.Kannel is mainly being developed on Linux systems, and should be fairly easy to port to other Unix-like systems. However, kannel don't yet support other platforms.

Kannel Installation and Configuration as SMS gateway Server

Installation

1 Before installing kannel you will need to install libxml. Download the source and follow the next steps for installation.We can download it from following link. ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/pub/libxml/
2 Unzip it into some directory
3 Cd into directory where libxml is unzipped and then type the following commands
4 Type ./configure
5 Type make
6 Type make install
   now you have libxml

7 Download latest version of Kannel http://www.kannel.org/download.shtml and Unzip it into some      directory  or use   
svn co https://svn.kannel.org/gateway/trunk  to download latest version of gateway
8 cd into directory where Kannel is unzipped and then type the following commands
9 Type  ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/kannel-1.5.0 --enable-start-stop-daemon --with-mysql
10 Type make
11 Type make install

 Now kannel is ready

Next step is to add configuration

Kannel consists of three programs, usually run as  daemons:  bearerbox, wapbox, and smsbox. They implement the connection to the phone (SMS or UDP), the WAP protocol stack, and the SMS based services, respectively.

We will need only  bearerbox and smsbox as we are going to setup it as SMS gateway server. Bearerbox is the main queue and smsbox handles the smscs.

Create a file named kannel.conf and add following configuration

#---------------------------------------------
# CORE
#
# There is only one core group and it sets all basic settings of the bearerbox (and system).

group = core
admin-port = 13000
admin-password = passwd##
smsbox-port = 13010
log-file = "/var/log/kannel/kannel.log"
# Log level is DEBUG
log-level = 0
access-log = "/var/log/kannel/access.log"
store-type = spool
# Let no SMS be lost as far as possible
store-location = "/var/spool/kannel"
# Acceptable retries for temporary failures in sending SMS
sms-resend-retry = 3

#---------------------------------------------
# SMSBOX SETUP
#
# Smsbox(es) do higher-level SMS handling after they have been received from SMS centers by #bearerbox, or before they are given to bearerbox for delivery

group = smsbox
bearerbox-host = localhost
sendsms-port = 13020
log-file = "/var/log/kannel/smsbox.log"
# Log level is DEBUG
log-level = 0
access-log = "/var/log/kannel/access.log"

#---------------------------------------------
# SEND-SMS USERS
# These users are used when Kannel smsbox sendsms interface is used
#to  send PUSH sms messages

group = sendsms-user
username = tester
password = foobar
concatenation = true
max-messages = 4

#---------------------------------------------
# SMSC CONNECTIONS
#
# SMSC connections are created in bearerbox and they handle SMSC specific
# protocol and message relying.


# Example complete configuration
 group = smsc
 smsc = smpp
 smsc-id = PROMO-SERVICE-MESSAGE
 allowed-smsc-id = PROMO-SERVICE-MESSAGE
 host = X.X.X.X
 port = XXXX
 transceiver-mode = true
 smsc-username = promouser
 smsc-password = promopasswd
 source-addr-ton = 0
 source-addr-npi = 1
 dest-addr-ton = 0
 dest-addr-npi = 1
 system-type = ""
 address-range = ""


Now start smsbox and bearerbox using commands

sudo /usr/local/kannel-1.5.0/sbin/bearerbox /home/shaiju/kannel/kannel.conf

sudo /usr/local/kannel-1.5.0/sbin/smsbox /home/shaiju/kannel/kannel.conf

To see running process use

sudo ps -ef | grep kannel 

To stop the kannel service

/etc/init.d/kannel stop

To see kannel logs

tail -f /var/log/kannel/kannel.log 

Now you can send sms using send sms url

http://kannel.machine.ip:13010/cgi-bin/sendsms?username=tester&password=foobar&from=SENDERID&to=9999999999&text=test sms &smsc=PROMO-SERVICE-MESSAGE

If you are keen to learn more about this , Refer Here
For Sample kannel configuration, check Here