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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 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 Connecting to a 1 0 0V–240V AC S oc ket 6 Chec king the LEDs 7 Logging in to DMPDM and Changing its Pa s swords 8 Conf[...]
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2 Revised : July 9, 2008 78-185 67-02 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 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 [...]
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6 2 Finding a Suitable Location to Set Up Your DMP The site where you set up a DMP must b e within 6 feet of an AC electrical outlet (socket), with voltage that is standard in your locale, between 100 V 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 . Env[...]
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7 3 Participating in a DHCP Network The factory default for a DMP 4400G is to obtain its IP address automatically from a DHCP server . If you will deploy your DMP at a physi cal location that does n ot have a DHC P server , see User Guide for C isco Digital M edia Player De vice Manager 5 .0 on Cisco.com to learn how to configure your DMP to use a [...]
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8 Step 1 Plug one end of an ordinary Ethernet cabl e into the Ethernet 10/100 port on the back of the DMP chassis. 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 [...]
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9 Y ou can use displays fro m any man ufacturer , as lon g as your displays co mply with all of t he rele v ant international st andards. If NEC is yo ur preferred manuf acturer for LCD di splays, we recommend these NEC models: • 32" — MultiSync® LCD 3210 • 40" — Either of these: – MultiSync® LCD4010 – MultiSync® LCD4020 ?[...]
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10 T o attach an analog display to your DMP , we recommend tha t you use the provided composite/RCA cable for both video and audio. 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 you[...]
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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 audi o cable into the AUDIO interface on your DMP . Step 2 Connect the other e nd of the cable (or cab les) to the corresponding interface (or int[...]
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12 Step 3 Connect to an AC electrical outlet that you know is grounded, and that uses the correct voltage level for your locale. Supported levels range from 100V to 240V . T o protect your DMP from elec trical surges, we recommend that you use a surge protector or an uninterruptible power supply from a reputable manufacturer . 6 Checking the LEDs T[...]
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13 7 Logging in to DMPDM and Changing its Passwords Step 1 When your DMP displa y shows the Cisco logo an d shows an IP address for yo ur DMP , write down the IP address.[...]
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14 Ti p T o reconfigure this splash screen in the future to persis t 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 If you have v ery few DMPs and will manage each of them in isolation, you can change their DMP W eb A ccount and DMP Service Account passwords manually in DM PDM. Y ou use the W eb Service Account w hen 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 availa[...]
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16 string should contain a n actual plus sign, you must encode the plus sign explicitly as %2B . Excl amation points ( ! ), question marks ( ? ), ampersands ( & ), and asterisks ( * ) are forbidden in v alues. T o understand URI encoding 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 compl eted the optional Step 4 in thi s procedure, that means you skipp ed ahead first and have already co mpleted th e “Setting Up Centralized Management” section on page 22. Now that you have completed Step 4 here, how ever , the chan ges that you made to credentials will prevent your trusted DM M appliance temporarily fro[...]
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19 If you prefer , you can use DMM-DSM to cha nge the password simultaneously on multipl e DMPs in you r digital signage ne twork: a. Select Digital Media Players > Advance d 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[...]
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20 – Selec t the check box for each DMP where the DMP Service Account password should change. – Select from the Select an Event T ype list the system task that you named i n Step 5b. ( Alternatively , users of DMM-DSM 4.1. x should select this task from the Actions list. ) – Click Submit . ( Alternativ ely , users of DMM-DSM 4.1. x should c l[...]
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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 y our selections and to implement them unti l you change them o r until you restart your DMP , click Apply . Step 6 T o test if your selections are suitable ones for yo ur DMP display , click Show IP in the DMP M ode 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[...]
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23 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 to send inbound traffic to your DMP over TCP port 7777. If yo u do not know how to work with access control lists, see the manufacturer documentat ion for your firewall. S[...]
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24 d. T o confirm your selections and to implem ent 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 Administra tion > Save Configura tion . – On the Save Config uration page, clic k Save . Note DMM-DSM and yo [...]
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25 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 — If you ha ve not already done so, enter the DNS-resolvable hostname and domain for the appliance that is serving DMM-DSM, like dmm. example.com . – D[...]
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26 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 features require that your DMPs use firmware release 5.0 or later and that your DMM applian ces 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 genera l Cisco documents, see the mo nthly What’ s New in Cisco Product Documentation , which also lists all new a nd revised Cisco technical doc [...]
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