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Q UICK S TART Quick Start Guide for Cisco Digital Me dia Player 4305G 1 Chec king the P ac k age Contents 2 Finding a Suitable L ocation to Set Up Y our DMP 3 P ar ticipating in a DHCP Ne twork 4 Conn ecti ng to a DMP D ispla y 5 Co nnecti ng t o an A C S oc ket 6 Chec king the LEDs 7 Logging in to DMPDM and Changing its Pa s swords 8 Configuring V[...]
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2 Revised : July 10, 2008 78-186 81-02 Contains Macromedia® Flash™ te chnology by Adobe Systems , Inc. Copyri g ht 1995-2003 A dobe Systems, Inc. All Rights reserved. M acromedia, Flash, Macrom edia Flash, and Macromed ia Flash Lite are trademarks or registered trademarks of Adobe Systems, Inc. in the United States and othe r countries. Note For[...]
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3 Glossary Cisco Digital Media S ystem (Cisco D MS) is a family of products and technologies, including the ones that this guide describes. A Digital Med ia Play er (DMP) is a compact, solid state, addressable network device that delivers di gital signage content and enterprise TV content to a DMP displa y , which is any directly attached televisio[...]
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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 over view 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/[...]
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5 1 Checking the Package Contents The product package for one DM P 4305G 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 4305G. • T wo signa l cables: – HDMI – Composite/RCA • One[...]
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6 240V . T o understand the supported lengths for different video cable types, see the “Connecting to a DMP Display” section on page 8 . Environmental Tolerance Ranges The DMP 4305G is intended for indoor use. T emp erature 1 US Customary Unit Modern Metric Unit Min. Max. Min. Max. Oper ating — long-term or short-term 41°F 104°F 5°C 40°C [...]
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7 3 Participating in a DHCP Network The factory default for a DMP 4305G is to obtain its IP address automatically from a DHCP server . If you will deploy your DMP at a physical loca tion that does not have a DHCP server and y ou must configure your DMP to use a static IP address, complete th e “Preconfig uring Y our D MP T o Run W ith out a Local[...]
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8 Step 2 Plug the other end of the Ethernet cable into a network hub, network switch, or ro uter that participates in a DHCP network. 4 Connecting to a DMP Display W e recommend that yo u use a digital display , not analog. For the type of digital display , we recommend LC D, not plasma. Digital signage uses static images more often than it use s f[...]
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9 – MultiSync® LCD4010 – MultiSync® LCD4020 • 46" — MultiSync® LCD 4610 • 57" — MultiSync® LCD 5710 The maximum supported length for a video cable is: • 10 feet — Composite/RCA and S-V ideo • 16 feet — HDMI T o attach a digital display to y our DMP , we recommend that you use the provided HDMI ca ble for video and [...]
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10 Step 1 On the back of your DMP chassis, do one of the following: • If you will con nect your DMP to a digital displa y that has an HDMI interfa ce, plug the male end of the HDMI cable in to th e HDMI interface on your DMP . • If you will con nect your DMP to one of th e recommended NEC display models that does not have an HDMI in terface, do[...]
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11 • If you will connect your DMP to an analog display , do all of the following : – Plug the yellow jack on the RCA cable into the CVBS interface on your DMP . – Plug the red j ack on the RCA cable into the AUDI O/RIGHT interface o n your DM P . – Plug the whi te jack into the AUDIO/LEF T interface on your DMP . Step 2 Connect the other e [...]
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12 Step 1 Assemble the DMP power cord: a. Identify the correct plug type for your region (U.S., E.U., U.K., or Australia). b. Snap that plug into the AC adapter . Step 2 Connect the DC barrel connector to the 5V DC power supply on the D MP chassis. Step 3 Connect to an AC electrical outlet that you know is grounded, and that uses the correct voltag[...]
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13 The LEDs tell you if your DM P has power and if it ha s obtained an IP addres s. • A solid green LED indicates that a power source is available. • A solid red LED indicates that your DMP is trying to obtain an IP address. After your DMP has an IP address, it turns off the red LED. The LEDs do not blink unless they are exposed to infrared sig[...]
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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 millisecond s) field, then click Apply . Next, select Administration > Save Configuration , then cli[...]
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15 Step 2 Point your bro wser to the IP address that you wrote down. Step 3 At the login prompt for DM PDM, to log i n as the “DMP W eb Account” user , enter the username admin and the password default . Cautio n Security in your netwo rk might be compromised unless you change the factory-default passwords in DMPDM for both of these : • The D[...]
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16 DMP Service Accou nt is a us er account with F TP login privileges. (The DMP Service Acc ount account is available only when the F TP service is enabled on a DMP .) Alternatively , if you hav e many DMPs and will manage them centrally , you can use the full y licensed DMM -DSM softw are on your DMM appliance to chang e both of these pa sswords g[...]
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17 T o understand URI encoding and its recommended syntax for submitting query strings, see RFC 1630 at http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1630 . Step 4 T o change the DMP W eb A ccount password on one DMP by using DMPD M, select Administration > DMP We b A c c o u n t . Enter your new password in the Password field, enter i t again in the Repeat Pas[...]
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18 d. T o save the task so that it becomes available for your use, click Submit . e. T o send the password changing instruction simultaneously to multiple DMPs in your digital signage network, do the following: – Select S chedules > Play Now . ( Al ternatively , users of DMM-DSM 4.1. x should select Schedules > Immediate Deployment . ) – [...]
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19 made to credentials will prevent your trusted DM M appliance temporarily from co mmunicating with yo ur DMPs. T o restore proper communi cation, you must now repeat Step 3 in the “Setting Up Centralized Management” section on page 23. Step 5 T o chang e the DMP Service Account password on one DMP by using DMPD M, select Administration > D[...]
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20 d. T o save the task so that it becomes available for your use, click Submit . e. T o send the password changing instruction simultaneously to multiple DMPs in your digital signage network, do the following: – Select S chedules > Play Now . ( Alternatively , users of DMM-DSM 4.1. x should select Schedules > Immediate Deployment . ) – S[...]
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21 8 Configuring Video Output Step 1 In the Settings area , click DMP Displa y Attributes . The display autodetection feature is enabled by default. If you are sati sfied with t he selections and entries that DMPDM made for you, you are done with this section and you can go now to the “Setting Up Centralized Management” section on page 23 . Oth[...]
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22 Step 3 If you selected RGB as the c o lor space, selec t an option from the Color Component Order list to define the order in which to store red, green, and blue data. This definition is sometimes called the left-to-right addit i ve color model. Step 4 ( Optional ) Move any or all of the slide rs to compensate for DMP display deficiencies in vid[...]
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23 9 Setting Up Centralized Management If your DMP will b e managed centrally as part of a digital signage network, you must configure DMPDM and DM M-DSM to work together . Cautio n T o stop untrusted DMM ap pliances from being able to seize control of your DMPs, you must configure your network firewa ll to restrict which devices you wil l permit t[...]
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24 c. In the DMM Appliance IP Address field, enter the routable IP address or DN S-resolvable hostname of the trustworthy DMM appliance. The DMM Appliance IP Add ress field might already be populated wi th the correct IP address for your DMM appl iance if you used DMM-DSM to autodiscover your new DMP . d. T o confirm your selections and to implem e[...]
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25 T o learn how to make these credentials identical, see the “Logging in to DMPDM and Changing its Passwords” section on page 13 . Step 3 Specify in DMM -DSM the co rrect user credentials for your centrally managed DMP s. a. Select Settings > Serve r Settings . b. Enter the required values: – Servlet Serv er Address — I f you have n ot [...]
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26 identical to th e new credential s for your DMPs. Otherwise, if you do not upda te this information, DMM-DSM will use obsolete credentials when it tries to communicate with your DMPs and, when communication fails, will consider y our DMPs to be unreachable and unmanageable. 10 Learning About the Remote Control for DMPs The remote control feature[...]
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27 11 Obtaining Documentation, Obtaining Support, and Security Guidelines For information on obtaining documentation, obtaining support, providing documentation feedback, security guidelines, and also recommended aliases and genera l Cisco documents, see the mo nthly What’ s New in Cisco Product Documentation , which also lists all new a nd revis[...]
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