System Administrator’s Guide

Managing and configuring Shortcode mappings

The following section describes how to configure shortcode mappings for incoming messages to Network Gatekeeper.

Introduction

The Shortcode Mapper is shared between the following plug-ins:

The Shortcode mapper maps network-triggered messages (mobile originated) with a given destination address, the original destination address, to another destination address, the translated destination address.

The original destination address can be expressed as a pattern, that is, a regular expression, which means that a range, or set, of original destination addresses can be translated to one single translated destination address.

This is useful when having applications that are triggered by a range of phone numbers, for example, a range of phone numbers like 2345600 through 2345699.Using the functionality available in the Parlay X 2.1 Short Messaging interface the application would have to call startSmsNotification 100 times, while setting up a short code translation mapping where the original destination addresses are expressed as 23456?? and the translated destination address is set to 1234 means that only a single call to startSmsNotification using the address 1234 is required.

Configuration and Management

All configuration and management is performed in the managed object ShortCodeMapper.

The ShortCodeMapper OAM functionality is shared between the plug-ins: they reuse the same MBean. Rendering however is per plug-in (one instance is displayed per plug-in). It appears slightly differently depending how to the MBean is accessed:

Management operations

Management of shortcodes includes:

Operation: addShortCodeMapping

Operation: listShortCodeMappings

Operation: removeShortCodeMapping

Reference: Attributes and Operations for ShortCodeMapper

Managed object: ShortCodeMapper

MBean: com.bea.wlcp.wlng.shortcode.management.ShortCodeMapperMBean

Below is a list of operations for configuration:

Operation: addShortCodeMapping

Scope: Cluster

Translates the destination address of a network-triggered message to a translated destination address. The translated destination address is used when matching the message with notification registrations. This makes it possible for an application to register for a notification from a single shortcode and receive messages sent to a range of short codes (original destination addresses).

An identifier for the short code translation is returned.

Signature:

addShortCodeMapping(orig_dest_pattern: String, trans_dest_addr: String)

Operation: listShortCodeMappings

Scope: Cluster

Displays a list of shortcode mappings.

Signature:

listShortCodeMappings()

Operation: removeShortCodeMapping

Scope: Cluster

Removes a previously added shortcode mapping. Both fields must match.

Signature:

removeShortCodeMapping(OriginalDestination: String, MappedDestination: String)