ISE and SMS Gateway questions

[Arne Bier]

Hello

I want to enable SMS notification for my Sponsor Portal and it's proving harder than I thought.

The SMS Provider (https://www.messagemedia.com.au/) provided me with an example URL, such as https://http-api.m4u.com.au/api/send.php?phone=$mobilenumber$&username=SMSProv_Username&password=SMSProv_Password&message$  (and I hard-code the SMSProv_Username and the SMSProv_Password into the URL) and as a test from my desktop PC I am able to send SMS's to my phone.

Now I am having a bit of a tough time translating that into an ISE configuration below.  I will admit that I am not a web developer and phrases like "URL encoded portion" don't mean much to me. In the simplest case, can I take the URL that I was given, and plug that into the ISE GUI without much further config, and it should work?

The SMS Provider does mention a POST method (again, doesn't mean much to me - I wish I understood this better) - in layman's terms, why and when would I use that option?  I just want to have the best option available.

And lastly, how the heck does one troubleshoot this (what log(s) can I trawl?)

When I try send SMS via Sponsor Portal I get the super useful error message "Unable to send SMS"

[bravojared]

This is a get request.

Try:

URL: https://http-api.m4u.com.au/api/send.php?phone=$mobilenumber$&username=SMSProv_Username&password=SMSProv_Password&message=

and Data (Url Encoded portion): $message$

The variables in ISE ($mobilenumber$ and $message$ are replaced, and the Data field is appended to the URL.  The rest of the values for username/password you have are statics and replace with what you have in the full string.

So when appended together it will look like :

https://http-api.m4u.com.au/api/send.php?phone=$mobilenumber$&username=SMSProv_Username&password=SMSProv_Password&message=$message$

[Arne Bier]

Hi Jared

thanks for the suggestion.  I still get the same error even after I added the $message$ to the Data field.

I need to see the logs to see where the issue is. 

[Arne Bier]

The problem was related to IP routing for my Proxy - I was missing a static route.  I found a clue in the Guest.log file

Still keen to learn more about the http POST method.

[Arne Bier · Accepted solution]

Hi Jared -  I have removed the $message$ from the Data field because my SMS contained the message twice.  It appears that the URL contains all the parameters that I needed.

[bravojared]

Yes, you see in my link above from earlier today I removed the $messages$ from the URL, only in the data field.

Glad that and the proxy resolved it for you.

[Jason Kunst]

Arne can you summarize your setup and perhaps repost as a document with a relevant subject so we can share this example working with this vendor?

Screenshot or sample urls?

Any other relevant data

Sent from my iPhone

[Arne Bier]

sure can do.  I will create a short document