• Test phone numbers. You can use Visual Basic Scripts to run sipcli recursively. See Running section for a sample VB script.
• Broadcast your recorded audio or text message to SIP/PSTN users. Most of network monitoring system supports invoking external executables for event notification.

• Simple, easy to use.

• You can set source IP interface, SIP port, codec, SIP proxy/port, SIP username and password.

• You can play built-in or a user specified wave file to remote SIP endpoint (G.711 A-Law and Mu-Law only; other codecs not supported for playout).

• sipcli can collect user defined number of digits from dialed endpoints.

• sipcli can also read a text message specified with -t option. sipcli uses Microsoft's TTS engine to produce auido from the text.

• sipcli supports ENUM (RFC 37612).

• sipcli can execute custom scenarios.

• A Windows system with at least 512 MBytes of RAM.

• Microsoft.NET Framework v2.0.50727 (Min.)

To install sipcli, create a directory, extract sipcli.zip to that directory. To uninstall sipcli, simply remove the installation directory.

Click here to download sipcli.

Open a command line prompt and locate sipcli's installation directory:

1. Create sipcli.ini in the installation directory. You can place sipcli.ini to a directory which is in search path of your environment. If you do not create sipcli.ini sipcli initialized with following default values:

    - Available first interface with IPv4 address with a default gateway will be
      selected as source IP address (ListenIP)
    - SIP port: 5070
    - Logging: Informative (0)
    - Codec: g729
    - Timeout 30 seconds
    - SIP Domain: ListenIP:5060
    - Username: 5550000
    - Password: 'Blank'
    - Text to read: This is a test call made by SIP c l i

2. Run sipcli from command line with the destination number:
   

3. A message indicating result of the test call will be displayed to the console.



Here is a sample VB Script for running sipcli recursively to dial a series phone numbers. Script takes file name which contains phone numbers as command line argument. Phone numbers file must contain one phone number per line.

Set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject ("WScript.Shell") 
Set objRegEx = CreateObject("VBScript.RegExp")
objRegEx.Pattern = "^\d+$"

Set FSOPath = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")

FilePath = FSOPath.GetAbsolutePathName("") 

Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set PhoneNumbersFile = objFSO.OpenTextFile(FilePath & "\" & WScript.Arguments(0))

Result = FilePath & "\test-results.txt"

strRun = "%comspec% /c echo Test Results: > " & Result
WshShell.Run strRun, 0, True

Do Until PhoneNumbersFile.AtEndOfStream
 PhoneNumber = PhoneNumbersFile.ReadLine
 Set colMatches = objRegEx.Execute(PhoneNumber)  
 If colMatches.Count Then
   strRun = "%comspec% /c " & FilePath & "\sipcli.exe " & PhoneNumber & " >> " & Result
   WshShell.Run strRun, 0, True
 End If
Loop

PhoneNumbersFile.Close

Test result will be written to "test-results.txt" file.

You can find sipcli.ini parameters below:

    [CLI]
    ' ListenIP, you can set source IP interface. sipcli selects first available
    ' IPv4 address with a gateway.
    ListenIP=192.168.10.2
    ' ListenPort, you can set source UDP port, default: 5070
    ListenPort=5070
    ' You can set logging level
    ' 0: Informative, 1: Sessions, 2: Errors, 3: Debug
    ' Default: Informative (0)
    Logging=0
    ' You can set user codec, options: g711a, g711u, ilbc and g729. Default: g711a.
    Codec=g729
    ' You can specify a wave file for playout. Wave file must be in 8 KHz, 16 bit sampled
    ' mono file. You must use command line switch -w to play specified file to remote
    ' SIP endpoint. Only G.711 A-Law and Mu-Law codecs are supported for playout.
    WavFile=C:\Test.wav
    ' You can specify call establishment timeout. Default 30 seconds, maximum 180 seconds.
    Timeout=25
    ' You can specify text message to read when -t switch used at command line.
    TexttoRead=This is my test message.
    ' You can enable or disable ENUM lookup, disable by default.
    ENUM=0
    ' How many digits will be collected maximum
    DigitLength = 0
    ' How many second will be waited after last digit entered if user does not dial #
    DigitTimeout = 2
    ' How many times welcome message will be played if no user input (DTMF digits) detected
    LoopCount = 1

    [Proxy]
    ' Specify SIP Proxy domain and optionaly UDP port. Default ListenIP:5060
    SIPDomain=192.168.10.10:5080
    ' Specify SIP username. Default: 5550000
    Username=5550000
    ' Specify password. Default is blank.
    Password=

 C:\sipcli>sipcli 02135551122 -u 02135551010 -d 192.168.20.1:5090

 -u : Username
 -p : Password
 -d : SIP_Domain:Port
 -c : Codec [g711a|g711u|ilbc|g729]
 -l : Logging [0|1|2|3]
 -o : Timeout
 -t : Text to read
 -w : Playout file absolute path (8 KHz, 16 bit sampled mono wave file)
 -f : Length of the digit string to be collected
 -g : Inter digit time out
 -h : Playout count

 C:\sipcli>sipcli 02135551122 -enum

 IP Adr.: 192.168.10.1
 UDP P. : 5073
 RTP P. : 5074

SipCli supports automated tasks defined in scenario scripts. You can execute scenarios defined in scenario files. Scenario files are text files consists of following sections and parameters. There are two sections in scenario files; [Prompts] and [Actions]. [Prompts] sections defines prompts can be used by Play action. A prompts can be a recorded audio file in wave format or a text can be synthesized by TTS engine. Every prompt must have a numeric Id associated with it. You must specify full path of wave file and wave files for the prompts must be in 16 bits, 8 KHz, mono format If wave file cannot be found or cannot be encoded by SipCli, the wave file will not be imported to the scenario.

 [Prompts]
 0=C:\sipcli\Welcome.wav
 1=C:\sipcli\Info-1.wav
 'TTS Text
 2="This is a test call"
   

[Actions] section contains actions to be executed. Every action has also a numeric Id and action identifier and parameters. Defined actions are Play, Exit, Send, Exec, Eval and Wait. Actions and their parameters are listed below with samples. Sipcli always starts scenario with action id = 0. Every actions' last parameter is the next actions' id except Exit which terminates the scenario. If you define an no-existent action as a next action SipCli will break the execution of the script. Script execution will also be terminated if the action step is not properly defined.

 [Actions]
 'Play Format
 'Step=Play-||||
 0=Play-0|3|1|4

 'Evaluate Format
 'Step=Evaluate-|;|;..;|
 1=Evaluate-Default|7;23|2;24|3;25|7

 2=Play-1|3|7|3
 3=Play-2|3|7|3

 'Send Format
 'Step=Send-|
 4=Send-124124|2

 'Wait Format
 'Step=Wait-|
 5=Wait-30|6

 'Exec Format
 'Step=Exec-|||
 'Variables (Case sensitive):
 '%called_number, %calling_number, %received_digits, %sipdomain%
 'Set command line parameter to "" if no parameter will be used
 6=Exec-"C:\sipcli\test.bat"|"-u %called_number"|1|7

 'Exit Format
 'Step=Exit
 7=Exit
 

Free version of sipcli supports maximum 3 second of playout and maximum 3 different actions in scenario definitions. You can buy unlimited version for 59 USD.

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