Cisco Systems 4400G manual

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    Q UICK S TART Quick Start Guide for Cisco Digital Me dia Player 4400G 1 Chec king the P ac k age Contents 2 Finding a Suitable Location to S et Up Y our DMP 3 P articipating in a DHCP Ne twork 4 Conne cting to a DMP Displ ay 5 Connecting to a 1 0 0V–240V AC Soc ket 6 Chec king the LEDs 7 Logging in to DMPDM and Changing its P asswords 8 Configuri[...]

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    2 Revised: July 9, 2008 78-18567-02 Contains Macromedia® Flash™ technology by Adobe Systems , Inc. Copyright 1995-2003 Adobe Systems, Inc. All Rights reserved. Macromed ia, Flash, Macromedia Flash, and Macromedia Flash Lite are trademarks or registere d trademarks of Adobe Systems, Inc. in th e United States and other countries. Note For informa[...]

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    3 Glossary Cisco Digital Media System (Cisco DMS) is a family of products and technologies, including the ones tha t this guide describes. A Digital Media Pla yer (DMP) is a compact, solid state, addressable network device that delivers digital signage content and enterprise TV content to a DMP display , which is any directly attached television sc[...]

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    4 Learn More T o learn more about DMS products, related technologies, and Cisco in general: Description Go T o DMS overview http://www.cisco.com/go/dms Release notes for Cisco DMS products http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ ps6681/prod_release_notes_list.html User documentation for Cisco DMS products http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/p s6681/pr[...]

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    5 1 Checking the Package Contents The product package for one DMP 4400G should contain all of the following: • A proof of purchase certificate that contains important legal information, which you should keep. • This quick start guide and other product documentation. • One DMP 4400G. • One AC adapter (12V , 3A). • One power cord. • One i[...]

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    6 2 Finding a Suitable Location to Set Up Your DMP The site where you set up a DM P must be within 6 feet of an AC electrical outlet (socket), with voltage that is standard in your locale, between 100V and 240V . T o understand the supported lengths for different vide o cable types, see the “Connecting to a DMP Display” section on page 8 . Envi[...]

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    7 3 Participating in a DHCP Network The factory default for a DMP 4400G is to obtain its IP a ddress automatically from a DHCP server . If you will deploy your DMP at a physical location that does not have a DHCP server , see User Guide for Cisco Digital Media Pl ayer Device Manager 5.0 on Cisco.com to learn how to configure your DMP to use a stati[...]

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    8 Step 1 Plug one end of an ordinary Ethernet cable into the Ethernet 10/100 port on the back of the DMP chas sis. Step 2 Plug the other end of the Ethernet cable into a network hub, network switch, or router that participates in a DHCP network. 4 Connecting to a DMP Display W e recommend that you use a digital display , not a nalog. For the type o[...]

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    9 Y ou can use displa ys from any manuf acturer , as long as your displays comply wi th all of the relev ant international standards. If NEC is your pref erred manufacturer for LCD di splays, we recommend these NEC models: • 32" — MultiSync® LCD3210 • 40" — Either of these: – MultiSync® LCD4010 – MultiSync® LCD4020 • 46&q[...]

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    10 T o attach an analog display to your DMP , we recommend that you use the provided composite/RCA cable for both video and audio. Step 1 On the back of your DMP cha ssis, do one of the following: • If you will connect your DMP to a digital display that has an HDMI interface, plug the male end o f the HDMI cable into the HDMI interface on your DM[...]

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    11 • If you will connect your DMP to an analog display , do all of the following: – Plug one yellow jack on the RCA video cable into the CVBS interface on your DMP . – Plug the 3mm jack on the RCA audio cable into the AUDIO interface on your DMP . Step 2 Connect the other end of the cable (or cab les) to the corresponding interface (or interf[...]

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    12 Step 3 Connect to an AC electrical outlet that y ou know is grounded, and that uses the correct voltage level for your locale. Supported levels range from 100V to 240V . T o protect your DM P from elec trical surges, we recommend that you use a surge protector or an uninterruptible power supply from a reputable ma nufacturer . 6 Checking the LED[...]

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    13 7 Logging in to DMPDM and Changing its Passwords Step 1 When your DMP display shows the Cisco l ogo and shows an IP address for your DMP , write down the IP address.[...]

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    14 Ti p T o reconfigure this splash screen in the future to pers ist for less than or more than the factory-default duration of 30 seconds, select Settings > Browser , enter a new duration in milliseconds in the Splash Screen Display T ime (in milliseconds) field, then click Apply . Next, select Administrati on > Save Configuration , then cli[...]

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    15 If you have very few DMPs an d will manage each of them in isolation, you can change their DMP W eb Acco unt and DMP Service Account passwords manually in DMPDM. Y ou use the W eb Service Account when you log in to DMPDM itself, and the DMP Service Account is a user account with F TP login privileges. The DMP Servic e Account account is availabl[...]

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    16 string should contain an actual plus sign, you must encode the plus sign explicitly as %2B . Exclamat ion points ( ! ), question marks ( ? ), ampersands ( & ), and asterisks ( * ) are forbidden in values. T o understand URI encodi ng and its recommended syntax for submitting query strings, see RFC 1630 at http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1630 .[...]

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    17 c. In the Request text box, use the correct syntax for URI encoding and enter mibifc.user=admin&mibifc.password= new_passwor d &mib.save=1 , where new_password is exactly the password that you want to assign to the DMP W eb Account user . d. T o save the task so that it becomes available for your use, click Submit . e. T o send the passw[...]

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    18 Note If you just completed the optiona l Step 4 in this procedure, that means you skipped ahead first and have already completed the “Setting Up Centralized Management” section on page 22. Now that you have completed Step 4 here, however , the changes that you made to credentials will prevent your trusted DMM appliance temporarily from commu[...]

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    19 If you prefer , you can use DMM-DSM to change the password simultaneously on multiple DMPs in your digital signage network: a. Select Digital Media Players > Advanced T asks > System T asks , then click the blank page icon to create a new system task. b. Enter a name and description for the new task, then select Set from the Request T ype [...]

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    20 – Select the check box for e ach DMP where the DMP Service Account password should change. – Select from the Select an Ev ent T ype list the system task that you named in Step 5b. ( Alternatively , users of DMM-DSM 4.1. x should select this task from the Actions list. ) – Click Submit . ( Alternatively , users of DMM-DSM 4.1. x should clic[...]

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    21 Otherwise, if you are not satisfied, do the following: a. From the DMP Display Autodetection (requires HDMI) list, select Disable . b. From the Display Standard list, select the standard that applies in your country . For example, even though our factory default selection is NTSC_M, your country might use PA L instead. c. From the Interface (DMP[...]

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    22 Step 5 T o confirm your selections and to implement them until you change them or unti l you restart your DMP , click Apply . Step 6 T o test if your selectio ns are suitable ones for your DMP display , click Show IP in the DMP Mode area. Y our DMP display should show a Cisco logo an d should show the IP address for your DMP . Step 7 T o make yo[...]

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    23 Caution T o stop untrusted DMM appliances from being able to seize control of your DMPs, you must configure your network firewall to restrict which devices you will permit to send inbound traffic to your DMP over TCP port 7777. If you do not know how to work with access control lists, see the manufacturer documentation for your firewall. Step 1 [...]

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    24 d. T o confirm your selections and to implement them until you change them or until you restart your DMP , click Apply . e. T o make these configuration changes persist even after you restart your DMP , do the following: – Select Administration > Save Config uration . – On the Save Configuration page, c lick Save . Note DMM-DSM and your D[...]

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    25 Step 3 Specify in DMM-DSM th e correct user credentials for your centrally managed DMPs. a. Select Settings > Server Settings . b. Enter the required values: – Servlet Server Address — If you have not already done so, enter the DNS-resolvable hostname and domain for the appliance that is serving DMM-DSM, like dmm.example.co m . – DMP Us[...]

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    26 to communicate with your DMPs and, when communication fails, will consider your DMPs to be unreachable and unmanageable. 10 Learning About the Remote Control for DMPs The remote control features require that your DMPs use firmware release 5.0 or later and that your DMM a ppliances use DMM software release 5.0 or later . A printed copy of Remote [...]

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    27 11 Product Documentation, Support, and Security For information on obtaining documentation, obtaining support, providing documentation feedback, security guidelines, and also recommended aliases and g eneral Cisco documents, see the monthly What’ s New in Cisco Product Documentation , which also lists all n ew and revised Cisco technical docum[...]

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    Americas Headquarters Cisco S ystems, Inc. San Jose, CA Asia Pacific Headquarters Cisco Systems (USA) Pte. Ltd. Singapore Europe Headquarte rs Cisco Syste ms International BV Amsterdam, The Netherlands Cisco has mo re than 200 offices worldw ide. Addresses, phone nu mbers, and fax numbers are listed on th e Cisco W ebsite at www .cisc o.com/go/offi[...]