Multimedia Messaging Service Centre MMSC-R3.

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Table of Contents

1. Release note s ............................................................................................................ 7

1.1

Release package ................................................................................................ 7

1.2

Installation and upgrade description ..................................................................... 7

1.3

List of integrated components and products .......................................................... 7

1.4

Third-party components ....................................................................................... 8

2. Implemented change requests................................................................................. 10

2.1

CR 14042 - ENUM Mobile Number Portability interfac e on MMS C........................ 10

2.2

CR 15003 Support for OpenLDAP ................................................................... 10

2.3
CR 15854 - Documents should be stored, archive d and can be retrieved in line with
the Acision Documentation Policy ................................................................................... 10
2.4

CR 15907 Validate Vantrix Transcoder STI interface ........................................ 10

3. Implemented internal change requests .................................................................... 11

3.1

ICR pmm1#20315 Verify and update MMIR feature in documentation ................ 11

4. Resol ved PRs from previous release s ..................................................................... 12

5. Rejected Software Problem Reports ........................................................................ 13
6. Known issue s .......................................................................................................... 14
6.1
IPR pmm1#21044 Missing section [MboxUtilServ] in
upowerProcessLayer.ini when appropriate.............................................................. 14
6.2

IPR pmm1#21231 GBG configuration is not backward compatible ..................... 14

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Preface

This document describes the changes to the Multimedia Messaging Service Centre (MMS C)
release and Multimedia Store (MStore) R3.0-03 with respect to the previous release R2.3.

Audience
This document is intended for Acision customers and staff that are using the MMSC and
MStore release R3.0-03.

Scope
The scope of this document is formed by the Change Requests (CRs ) and solved SPRs
implemented in release R3.0-03, currently unresolved issues due to the implemented CRs,
and the list of deliverables.

Conventions used in this manual

The typographic conventions used in this document are listed in Table P-1.
Table P-1: Typographic conventions
Typeface or Symbol

Meaning/Used for

Exam ple

Courier

Refers to a keyboard key, system

command, label, button, filename,
window, or other computer
component or output.

The directory data contains

<courier>

Serves as a placeholder for

variable text that the user will
replace as appropriate to its
context.

Use the file name <entity>.cfg

for...

[]

Refers the user to external

documentation listed in the
References section.

[ETSI 03.38]

Italic

Emphasizes a new word or term of

significance.

Jumpstart, the install procedure on a

SUN T1,

Denotes a Unix super-user

prompts for any shell.

# ls

Denotes line continuation; the

character should be ignored as the
user types the example, and
Enter should only be pressed
after the last line.

% grep searchforthis \
data/*.dat

Bridges two keystrokes that should

be pressed simultaneously.

If Ctrl-C does not w ork, use

Ctrl-Alt-Del.

Denotes a note, a piece of text

alongside the normal text requir ing
extra attention.

Note that the system is usually...

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1. Release notes

1.1

Release package
A number of Change Requests (CRs) implemented in this MMSC R3.0-03 release are
described in chapters 2. and 3. Currently known issues that have not been resolved on this
release are described in chapter 5. .
Software Problem Reports (SPRs) reported on previous versions are resolved in this new
version. These SP Rs are listed in chapter 4. .
The new functionality is incorporated in a set of IS O images, available on CD-ROM.

1.2

Installation and upgrade description

MMSC R3.0-03 for the Linux Red Hat 64bit platform is intended for both new ins tallations
and upgrades.
For systems running MMSC R2.3 on the Sun Solaris OS with S TP3.x, upgrade procedures
to MMSC R3.0-03 are available. Thes e procedures are described in the upgrade manuals
which are part of the MMSC R3.0-03 documentation deliverables.

1.3

For correct Directory Server Proxy installation and configuration instructions for the
MMSC Resilient system, refer to the MMS C Resilient DS Proxy IC memo which has
been issued as a standalone document.

List of integrated components and products

Table 1-1: Release components and versions
Product

Version(s)

ISO

Next Generation Platform (NGP)

R1.1-00

Refer to NGP R1.0-00 Release notes

MMSC Software

R3.0-03.00

mmsc_<platform>-R3.0-03.00.B<number>.iso

MMSC Central Provisioning Server

(CPS)

R3.0-03.00

mmsc_cps_<platform>-R3.0-03.00.B<number>.iso

MMSC Linux Platform Integration

(MPL)
MMSC Documentation

R3.0-03.00

mpl_linux- R3.0-03.00.B<number>.iso

R3.0-03doc

MMSC_R3.0-03.00.B <number>.iso

MMSC Linux Platform

Documentation

R3.0-03doc

mpl_linux-R3.0-03.00.B<number>.iso

MMSC Central Provisioning Server

(CPS)

R3.0-03.00

mmsc_cps_<platform>-R3.0-03.00.B<number>.iso

MMSC Backup & Recovery

R3.0-03.00

mmsc_br_<platform>-R3.0-03.00.B<number>.iso

BackOffice

R3.1-03.00

backoffice_<platform>-R3.1-03.00.B<number>.iso

CWMS Framew ork

R3.0-01.00

CWMS_R3.0-01.00.B<number>-<platform>.iso

CWMS MMSC plug-in

R3.0-02.00

cw ms_mmsc_<platform>-R3.0-02.00.B<number>.iso

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Product

Version(s)

ISO

GVCP

R3.0-01

gvcp_solaris - R3.0-02.00.B<number>.iso

VAS-API

R2.0-04.00

vasapi_<platform>-R2.0-04.00.B<number>.iso

R2.1-01

GBG_2.1-0.1.<build>.<platform>.rpm

Generic Billing Gatew ay (GBG)

Message Controller

R1.0-06

mco-R1.0-11.B<number>.x86_64.rpm

uPow er

R2.0-03.01

up_R2.0-03.01.B<number>-<platform>.iso

Central Directory Server (CDS)

R4.0-00

CDS_R4.0-00.B03-x86_64.iso

Acision Directory Server (DS)

R1.0-00

DS-R1.0-00.00.B<number>-x86_64.iso

Acision Mail Server (MS)

R1.0-00

MAIL-R1.0-00.00.B<number>-x86_64.iso

Sun JES

Mobixell Media Spire

5.7.4

Vantrix

7.3.5

Mirapoint

3.8.3

Message Controller has not been officially tested on NGP 1.1. The sanity check was
performed by the MMSC Test Team.
2

1.4

The Mirapoint CD-ROM image is not readable in a Unix or MS-Windows environment.

Third-party components
The MMSC uses several third-party components; described in Table 1-2.
Table 1-2: MMSC third-party components
Third party products for MMSC R3.0-03

Version(s)
Sun Solaris

RedHat Linux

3p lib

3.0

3.0

Apache webserver

2.2.9

2.2.9

Berkeley DB

4.4.20.NC

4.4.20.NC

Berkeley DB for OpenLDAP

3.2.9

4.2.52

Daemontools

0.76

0.76

J2SE

1.5.0_06

1.5.0_06

JRE

1.5.0_06

1.5.0_06

mod_perl

2.0.2

2.0.2

OpenLDAP

2.0.27

2.4

OpenLDAP Client

2.3.20

2.4

OpenLDAP Tools

2.3.20

2.4

OpenSSH

4.3p2

(installed w ith OS)

OpenSSL

0.9.7i

(installed w ith OS)

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Third party products for MMSC R3.0-03

Version(s)
Sun Solaris

RedHat Linux

Perl

5.8.8

(installed w ith OS)

Perl lib

4.0

4.0

PRNGD

0.9.27

0.9.27

qmail

1.03

1.03

RRDtool

1.0.49

1.0.49

STLport

N/A

(installed w ith OS)

TCP Wrapper

7.6

(installed w ith OS)

TextPass (mBalance)

2.07

2.07

Tomcat

4.1.31

4.1.31

ucspi_tcp

0.88

0.88

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2. Implemented change requests

This chapter describes the implemented Change Requests (CRs ) for MMSC R3.0-03.

2.1

CR 14042 - ENUM Mobile Number Portability interface on MMSC

Description
ENUM (E.164 Number Mapping, RFC 3761 [2]) is a system that transforms E.164 numbers
[3] into domain names and then uses DNS (Domain Name Service, RFC 1034 [4]) services ,
such as delegation through NS records and NAP TR records, to look up what services are
available for a specific domain name.
For further information about ENUM functionality on MMSC, refer to [MMSC FUNC SPEC,
paragraph 2.2.7 and Appendix B]

2.2

CR 15003 Support for OpenLDAP

Description
This change request adds support for the Acision Directory Server, based on the
OpenLDAP directory server, for the MMS C on a Linux platform.

2.3

CR 15854 - Documents should be stored, archived and can be retrieved

in line with the Acision Documentation Policy
Description
The MMSC product documentation has been updated in order to comply wit h a global
Acision documentation policy.

2.4

CR 15907 Validate Vantrix Transcoder STI interface

Description
This change request adds support for the Vantrix Transcoder on the MMS C.

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3. Implemented internal change requests

This chapter lists the internal change requests which introduc e a change in behavior, e.g.
new functionality.

3.1

ICR pmm1#20315 Verify and update MMIR feature in documentation

Description
The MMSC documents describing the MMIR feature have been thoroughly reviewed and
appropriately updated. The affected documents are MMSC R3.0-03 FUNC.SPEC, MMSC
R3.0-03 OMAN, MMSC R3.0-03 OMAN.B ILL and MMS C R3.0-03 S TP3.x ICMAN_Part2.

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4. Resolved PRs from previous releases

The MMSC R3.0-03 release includes the SPRs listed below:

PR num ber

Title

PR051298

Customer is getting multiple MM4_forward.req for single message

PR051380

Subscriber deletion failed when delete more than 1 subscriber in uPow er

PR051671

Apache access control based on host shall be described in MMSC documentation

PR051685

Incorrect reference in functional specif ication

PR051775

BILLING has linebreaks around "TRANSACTION_ID:STRING" causing post paid billing to fail

PR051827

mms not correctly displayed

PR051939

HS_MM4_delivery_report.REQ contains wrong From Field

PR051958

Core files are created in /var/mmsc-3.0/frontend/ directory on cn12 node.

PR051960

HS_Read Reports expires to Legacy are not correctly sent

PR051999

clone subscriber giv es error for mmscalias

PR052006

Problem to update VAS parameter

PR052066

MTA cannot be reached

PR052105

HS_Read reports are sent to STI interface for transcoding

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5. Rejected Software Problem Reports

This section lists PRs which were originally scheduled for this Service Pack but which were
found to be invalid.

PR num ber

Title

PR048358

[MMSC-3.0 FOA] Problem w ith retrieving message when sent from VAS application w ith
jpg/png attachment

PR049200

MMSC3.0 is not acheiving the same performance as MMSC2.3

PR052083

MMH runs out of heap when under high traffic

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6. Known issues

6.1

IPR pmm1#21044 Missing section [MboxUtilServ] in

upowerProcessLayer.ini when appropriate
Description
A missing section in the configuration file can be corrected by adding the following section in
upowerProcessLayer.ini with the proper paths when using the Sun ONE Directory
Server:
[MboxUtilServ]
mboxutilpath=/opt/sun/messaging/sbin
sshbin=/usr/bin/ssh

6.2

IPR pmm1#21231 GBG configuration is not backward compatible

Description
This issue was detected during upgrade of an MMS C system from MMSC R2.3-11 to MMSC
R3.0-03. Aft er a conversion of the gbg<xy>.ini file, the A_COS and B_COS attributes are
defined as follows:

A_COS = "0x7047, string-uint32"

B_COS = "0x7067, string-uint32"

This configuration, however, does not work for prepaid requests. For correct behavior of
GBG, the values of the affected configuration attributes must be adjusted as follows:

A_COS = "0x7047"

B_COS = "0x7067"

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Abbreviations

Abbreviation

Description

3GPP

Third Generation Partnership Project.

See www.3gpp.org

CDS

Central Directory Server

COI

Community Of Interest

COS

Class Of Service. Template for creating new subscribers.

See document [MMSC R3.0-03 OMAN.PROV].

CR

Change Request

CWMS

Central Web Management System

GA

General Available

GBG

Generic Billing Gatew ay

GPRS

General Packet Radio Service

HLR

Home Location Register

HTTP

HyperText Transfer Protocol

IMSI

International Mobile Subscriber Identity

IPR

Internal Problem Report

JES

Java Enterprise System

LDAP

Lightw eight Directory Access Protocol

MCC

Mobile Country Code (IMSI Country Code)

MNC

Mobile Netw ork Code (IMSI Operator Code)

MM

Multimedia Message

MMS

Multimedia Messaging Service

MMSC

Multimedia Messaging Service Centre

Node

Single processing unit e.g. a Sun Netra or a Compaq DS20.

NTP

Netw ork Time Protocol

OID

Object Identifier

OMA

Open Mobile Alliance.

See www.openmobilealliance.org

PAP

Push Access Protocol

Interface description for the VAS-interface (MM7-in).
Note: SOAP is also possible.

PBS

Prepaid Billing System

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Abbreviation

Description

PDU

Protocol Data Unit

PID

Process ID

PLMN

Public Land Mobile Netw ork

RFC

Request For Comment

RPM

Red Hat Package Manager

Software package according to the Red Hat Package Manager -standard. Single
installable unit of softw are.
See www.rpm.org

SDR

Service Detail Record

SGSN

Serving GPRS Support Node

SOAP

Simple Object Access Protocol

Interface description for the VAS-interface (MM7-in).
Note: PAP is also possible.

SMIL

Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language

SMSC

Short Message Servic e Centre

SMTP

Simple Mail Transfer Protocol

STI

Standard Transcoding Interface

STP

Standard Telecom Platform

URL

Universal Resource Locator

VAS

Value Added Services

VASP

Value Added Services Provider

WAP

Wireless Application Protocol

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References

Acronym

Description

MMSC R3.0-03 UMAN R2.3 to R3.0-03

Multimedia Messaging Service Centre R3.0-03,

Upgrade Manual R2.2 to R3.0-03

OMA 1.3 COMPLIANCY STATEMENT

Multimedia Messaging Service Centre R3.0-03,

Compliancy Statement,
Open Mobile Alliance v1.2

MMSC R3.0-03 OMAN. BILL.

Multimedia Messaging Service Centre R3.0-03,

Operator Manual Billing

MMSC R3.0-03 STP3.x ICMAN_Part2

Multimedia Messaging Service Centre 3.0-03, STP 3.x,

Installation and Configuration Manual Part 2

MMSC R3.0-03 OMAN.BILL

Multimedia Messaging Service Centre 3.0-03,

Operator Manual Billing

MMSC R3.0-03 FUNC.SPEC

Multimedia Messaging Service Centre R3.0-03

Functional Specification

MMSC R3.0-03 OMAN

Multimedia Messaging Service Centre R3.0-03

Operator Manual

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