Setup Amazon SimpleDB
for sending and receiving SMS
In this chapter you can learn about how to send and receive SMS messages using an Amazon SimpleDB database server with your Ozeki Phone System XE. In this guide you can get information about the installation steps, the database connection string, the database connection type and the database table layout for Amazon SimpleDB database server.
In order to send or receive SMS messages using an Amazon SimpleDB database server, you need to following the instructions.
During the configuration you should choose the following database connection type:
You should use the next database connection string:
The database connection string has to be modified to match your database.
The connection string and the connection type should be entered on the SQL SMS API configuration form.
Figure 5 - Specifying the connection string for the Amazon SimpleDB database
Figure 6 shows the SQL queries that will send the SMS messages from your database.
Figure 6 - SQL queries for receiving SMS messages
Under the SQL for receiving tab, you need to provide an SQL query that will store the incoming SMS messages. Figure 3 shows the SQL query that you need to use.
Figure 7 - SQL query for sending SMS messages
After the SQL SMS API has been configured in the Ozeki Phone System XE, you need to create the database tables for SQL SMS API. Use the following table layout:
- ozpbxmessageout table
| Name | Type |
| id | int (primary key, auto increment) |
| sender | varchar(30) |
| receiver | varchar(30) |
| msg | text |
| senttime | varchar(100) |
| receivedtime | varchar(100) |
| reference | varchar(100) |
| status | varchar(20) |
| msgtype | varchar(160) |
| operator | varchar(100) |
| errormsg | varchar(250) |
- ozpbxmessagein table
| Name | Type |
| id | int (primary key, auto increment) |
| sender | varchar(30) |
| receiver | varchar(30) |
| msg | text |
| senttime | varchar(100) |
| receivedtime | varchar(100) |
| extension | varchar(100) |
It is strongly recommended to maintain an index in the database for the 'id' field of the outgoing SMS table to support faster SQL updates.
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