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Nodi

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Un nodo, nel sistema Mobitouc CUBE, è denominato WLP-C.

Al fine di vedere un nodo nel vostro sistema (CMS), il nodo deve essere precedentemente attivato. Tutti i nodi attivati vengono mostrati nella schermata Nodes and zones Manager. Un nodo ha una serie di parametri che possono essere modificati per cambiare il suo comportamento.

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Modificare un Nodo

Per modificare le impostazioni di un nodo basta cliccare su Nodes nella barra dei menu e successivamente sulla voce Node and zones manager.

E' possibile selezionando un unico nodo o un insieme di nodi visualizzare e modificare le impostazioni cliccando su "Edit Node".

Parametri Nodi

I parametri che un utente può modificare nella finestra Edit Node. Non tutti i parametri vengono visualizzati di default. Per modificare i parametri avanzati bisogna cliccare sulla check-box "Enable advanced parameters" a destra della finestra. Di seguito il significato di ciascun parametro (i parametri base sono mostrati in grassetto, i parametri avanzati sono in grassetto corsivo).

Impostazioni Generali

Le impostazioni generali sono usate per dare informazioni sul in tutte le schermate del CMS. Questi parametri sono:

Name: il nome del nodo.

Description: una breve descrizione del nodo (es. codice della carta SIM utilizzata nel modem GPRS, ecc ..). Ha solo un valore mnemonico.

Geo localizzazione

I parametri di Geo localizzazione sono utilizzati dal sistema per valutare il posizionamento sul nodo. Questi i parametri:

  • Address
  • Zip Code
  • City
  • Country

Blacklist

Questi sono i parametri relativi alla Blacklist gestite su uno o più nodi.

  • Blacklist success time: è il tempo di attesa prima di ritentare l'invio ad un cellulare che ha già ricevuto il contenuto.
  • Blacklist reject time: è il tempo di attesa prima di ritentare l'invio ad un cellulare che ha già rifiutato il contenuto.
  • Blacklist transfer failure time: è il tempo di attesa prima di ritentare l'invio ad un cellulare che non è riuscito a ricevere il contenuto.
  • Blacklist notification message expired time: è il tempo di attesa prima di ritentare l'invio ad un cellulare a cui è scaduto il messaggio di notifica.
  • Number of notification messages retries: indicates the number of notification messages retries before the device become blacklisted.
  • Number of transfer retries on failure: indicates the number of transfer retries on failure before the device become blacklisted.
  • Blacklist monitor devices time: you have to set the time that will elapse before the WLP-C sends the statistics to your monitor device. So if you set 5 minutes it will wait 5 minutes before send another Statistics report to your monitor device.
  • Permanent blacklist devices: you can insert one or more Bluetooth Addresses to permanently insert devices in blacklists.
  • Blacklist clear before campaign starts: clears blacklists every time a new campaign starts.
  • Blacklist persistent enabled: This flag tells the system how to behave when power-off occurs. If this flag is checked, the system periodically saves blacklist data to persistent flash memory (every 5 minutes). If it is not checked, then the system doesn't do this and a power off can clear all blacklists.
  • Bluetouch enabled: the Bluetouch option permits to bypass blacklists. If a mobile phone is inside the Bluetouch range, it will receive the content although it is blacklisted.
  • Bluetouch RSSI range: the RSSI range of Bluetouch option.

Bluetooth

  • Bluetooth sender name: the name displayed on the user mobile phone screen when contacted by the node.
  • Bluetooth connections limit (for each transmitter): Sets the limit of simultaneously connected phones for each transmitter
  • Bluetooth page timeout : Set the timeout for establish the connection with the phones

Bluetooth - Inquiry

The inquiry procedure enables the WLP to discover which devices are in range, a phone can be inquired if it's in the inquiry scan state. The delay time is chosen by WLP, in the range Min Max, it depends by how many devices the WLP has to serve at the moment.

  • Inquiry timeout (sec): Inquiry life time
  • Min delay between two inquiries (sec): the minimum pause between two inquiries
  • Max delay between two inquiries (sec): the maximum pause between two inquiries

Bluetooth - Authentication

WLP doesn't require a PIN, if the Checkbox is unchecked and the phone (some Samsung ad BlackBerry) ask for a PIN, that mean that this phone require a Bluetooth authentication for the file transfer.

  • Always force Bluetooth authentication: with this box enabled the WLP require a PIN for all its connections
  • PIN code: when a Phone (or the WLP) requires Authentication, WLP uses this one

Bluetooth - OBEX Push Profile

Pay attention when change this settings!!!

  • OBEX connection timeout: The amount of time in seconds for which the WLP will attempt to successfully transmit a file after a phone acceptance
  • OBEX transfer timeout: The amount of time in seconds for which the WLP will attempt to successfully transmit a file after a connection problem
  • OBEX transfer MTU: (2048 - 8192): Specifies the MTU of your device, i.e. the maximum length of the packet in bytes it can accept. Defaults to: 8192
  • OBEX transfer delay between two contents: Defaults to: 0
  • OBEX push continue on reject: When you accept contents with your phone it will accept all the package, in some Sony Ericsson you have to accept to download files from the WLP, and you have to authorize every single file. With this box enable WLP continue to send next contents to a phone that as accepted a conncetion from the wlp but has negate a contents. With this box unchecked When a phone reject a content, WLP close the connection.

Statistics

The Monitor Device list and the format of the statistics sent to them. It is possible to insert into the system a specific mobile phone bluetooth address as Monitor device. The mobile phones registered as Monitor device won't never receive the contents specified by the active campaigns executed by the node instead they will receive a file containing informations related to statistics and diagnostics of the node.


Scheduler

  • Bluetooth RSSI coverage range, the values for the coverage area are far,long,medium and short. Approximately far corresponds to 35 meters, long corresponds to 25 meters, medium corresponds to 15 meters and short corresponds to 5 meters (Please note that the above coverage area estimation can be vary depending on the scenario where the nodes are installed and depending on the mobile phone used to receive the files).
  • Scheduler algorithm
    There are three different alghoritms to set which mobile phone the node will serve first:
    • Standard scheduler (oldest device first): instructs the node to serve the oldest mobile phone in the queue
    • Nearest scheduler (nearest device first): instructs the node the serve the nearest mobile phone
    • Fair scheduler (balanced alghoritm): this is a mix of the first two

Every time there aren't free resources to serve a Mobile phone a queue is created, the position of the queue where to insert the mobile phone waiting to be served depends on the Scheduler algorithm. Basically a mobile phone is inserted in the first place if it's the oldest cellular waiting to be contacted and the Scheduler algorithm property of the node is set to Standard scheduler and is inserted at the first position of the queue if it's the nearest mobile phone and the Scheduler algorithm property of the node is set to Nearest scheduler.

Device Identification

  • Fingerprint dump enabled: When you enable this flag when the WLP-C discover a new Phone fingerprint, it will push it to the server.
  • Fingerprint match algorithm: Whit the Perfect one you'll receive a specified content on your phone (i.e. whit a Device Identification Campaing) only if the matching of the phone is 100%. Heuristic algorithm works like the Perfect one when he knows a phone, and also when the WLP-C doesn't know with a reasonable certainty which is phone, it tries to assign which is the phone with some accuracy.
  • Fingerprint database auto-learning enabled: When you enable this flag when the WLP-C discover an unknown Phone fingerprint, it will push it to the server.
  • Fingerprint match threshold (%): You can decide the minimum accuracy for the Heuristic algorithm.

System

  • Timezone, the timezone of your country or everywhere the WLP will be used
  • Server synchronization frequency, elapsed time between the synchronizations of the node (note that you can force at any time the syncronization process operating on the Reset button).

Editing multiple nodes at the same time

It is possible to edit more than one node at the same time, just select from the Nodes and zones manager window all the nodes you want to configure. Operating on several nodes won't let you modify the General Information properties of every single node.