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SMS messages fail with error 500

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    22:58, 8 Dec 2015
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  • Article Type: General
  • Product: Voyager
  • Product Version: 9.1
  • Relevant for Installation Type: Dedicated-Direct; Direct; Local;

Symptoms
* SMS messages are not being sent by Voyager.
* SMS provider is Clickatell
* Test message responses, and Apache error logs show:
HTTP Status 500 - 1
type Exception report
message 1
description The server encountered an internal error that prevented it from fulfilling this request.
exception
java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: 1
...
* Corresponding Tomcat catalina.out log shows:
SEVERE: Servlet.service() for servlet [SmsProxyHttp] in context with path [/core-sms-proxy] threw exception
java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: 1
...

Cause
API Id is missing from the <ProviderPassword/> tag in SmsProxyConf.xml

Resolution
* The <ProviderPassword/> tag for <Institution> configurations in SmsProxyConf.xml, must contain both the password and the API-Id separated by a colon (:), when the SMS provider is Clickatell
* Add the Password and API-Id to the SmsProxyConf.xml institution configuration with the format [Password]:[API Id]

Category: Server issues