Cisco Configuration Professional Express 1.0, User Manual

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Page 2: ...ISCO OR ITS SUPPLIERS HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES Any Internet Protocol IP addresses used in this document are not intended to be actual addresses Any examples command display output and figures included in the document are shown for illustrative purposes only Any use of actual IP addresses in illustrative content is unintentional and coincidental User Guide for Cisco Digi...

Page 3: ...S Concepts and Vocabulary 1 8 C H A P T E R 2 Using DMPDM 2 1 Using One Click Options for a DMP Display 2 1 Viewing the Assigned DMP IP Address 2 1 Viewing Video Content in Full Screen Mode 2 2 Viewing HTML Content in Full Screen Mode 2 2 Configuring Settings 2 2 Adjusting Basic Network Settings 2 2 Adjusting Embedded Browser Settings 2 4 Adjusting DMP Display Settings 2 5 Enabling or Disabling Ce...

Page 4: ...ons 2 17 Editing the DMPDM User Account 2 17 Editing the FTP User Account 2 17 Saving Settings That You Configured 2 18 Restoring Factory Default Settings 2 18 Restarting Your DMP 2 19 Upgrading the DMP Firmware 2 19 Common Scenarios for Using DMPDM 2 20 Showing Content Files That Are Stored on the SD Card 2 20 Showing Content Files That Are Stored on a USB Flash Drive 2 20 Viewing the DMPDM About...

Page 5: ...owns or uses fewer than three DMPs Tip If you you own more than three DMPs but do not understand why you should use DMM DSM instead of DMPDM to manage a digital signage network see Understanding DMP Modes of Operation page 5 See Cisco com for related DMS and DMM user documentation Document Conventions This guide uses these text formatting conventions Note Means reader take note Notes contain helpf...

Page 6: ...e tips information might not be troubleshooting or even an action but could be useful information similar to a Timesaver Obtaining Documentation Obtaining Support and Security Guidelines For information on obtaining documentation obtaining support providing documentation feedback security guidelines and also recommended aliases and general Cisco documents see the monthly What s New in Cisco Produc...

Page 7: ...and internal communications in real time Training Deliver cost effective flexible training Information Deliver real time schedules news and way faring information where people need it Advertising Sell advertising time and space to third parties Branding Communicate about your brand consistently This guide assumes that you already completed the procedures in Quick Start Guide for Cisco Digital Medi...

Page 8: ...oncepts and Vocabulary page 1 8 Environmental Tolerances and Safety Guidelines Caution Your DMP might malfunction or be severly damaged if the temperature drops too low or climbs too high at the physical location where you deploy it or if other environmental tolerances are exceeded Table 1 1 describes environmental tolerance ranges for a DMP 4300G Table 1 1 DMP 4300G Environmental Tolerance Ranges...

Page 9: ...o be grounded Ensure that the host is connected to an earth ground during normal use When installing the unit always make the ground connection first and disconnect it last Ultimate disposal of this product should be handled according to all national laws and regulations To reduce the risk of bodily injury electrical shock fire and damage to the equipment observe the following precautions General ...

Page 10: ...n extension cord use a three wire cord with properly grounded plugs Observe extension cord and power strip ratings Make sure that the total ampere rating of all products plugged into the extension cord or power strip does not exceed 80 percent of the extension cord or power strip ampere ratings limit Do not use appliance or voltage converters or kits sold for appliances with your product To help p...

Page 11: ... DMPDM to configure the DMP and control every aspect of its daily operation If you deploy your DMPs in a digital signage network you use DMM DSM to configure the DMPs and control most aspects of their daily operation The centralized management features in DMM DSM support many more options than DMPDM supports and can help you to reduce your administrative overhead if you manage multiple DMPs Limite...

Page 12: ...o Digital Media Manager 4 0 on Cisco com If your DMP is not able to play the Zoning Application content files that you saved to the SD card or if no such content files are on the SD card your DMP enters stage two failover and starts to play content that is stored in ROM The content in ROM is video that shows a butterfly and your DMP plays the video repeatedly in a loop that persists until one of t...

Page 13: ...ds in your browser Caution You must be careful to enter nothing except one dot between any two octets in the static IPv4 dot decimal sometimes called dotted quad IP address If you mistakenly enter anything other than one dot between any two octets then apply and save what you mistakenly entered your DMP might become unreachable Step 7 To configure your DMP with the settings that it should use when...

Page 14: ... DMPs or on demand at a later time appliance In the DMS family of products an appliance is an MCS on which either DMM or Video Portal software is preinstalled To administer the appliance chassis and configure its low level behaviors you use AAI application In DMM DSM an application is a named tool that you can use to perform an administrative task such as sending a particular command or a particul...

Page 15: ... your DMPs consistently By registering your DMPs in DMM DSM and organizing them into groups by location display type or on any other basis you can act quickly to activate new settings for or deliver updated content to multiple devices simultaneously DMPDM Digital Media Player Device Manager Web based graphical user interface served from a DMP that you use to configure the DMP device during its ini...

Page 16: ...screen zone See zone video In DMM VPM a video is a virtual container for one or more video parts and is one component in a program For example a video might contain parts One Two and Three and be contained in a program that you named Annual Shareholders Meeting In a generic sense a video is any DMS content offering that includes video content audio content or both video part In DMM VPM a video par...

Page 17: ...e browser plugins for both Flash and Real Player Flash QuickTime Uses the MPEG4 codec to encode video for audiences who have browser plugins for both Flash and QuickTime WAE Cisco Wide Area Application Engine The hardware platform from which ACNS software provides application and content services zone A zone in digital signage is a rectangular area on a DMP display where you show any kind of conte...

Page 18: ...1 12 User Guide for Cisco Digital Media Player Device Manager 1 0 OL 12472 01 Chapter 1 Introduction Basic DMS Concepts and Vocabulary ...

Page 19: ...ne Click Options for a DMP Display The following topics tell you how and why to use the Show IP Video and Browser buttons in the DMPDM DMP Mode area Viewing the Assigned DMP IP Address page 2 1 Viewing Video Content in Full Screen Mode page 2 2 Viewing HTML Content in Full Screen Mode page 2 2 Viewing the Assigned DMP IP Address To see on your DMP display the specific IP address that your DMP rece...

Page 20: ...ent click See Specifying the URL to Show on the HTML Content Plane page 2 13 The video content plane is not shown Note To stop the full screen presentation of browser content click Video Configuring Settings DMPDM options in the Settings area are described in these topics Adjusting Basic Network Settings page 2 2 Adjusting Embedded Browser Settings page 2 4 Adjusting DMP Display Settings page 2 5 ...

Page 21: ...ote To simulate an audio only file given that we do not support their use directly create an MPEG 2 file that contains all of the audio data that you want to play and contains just one frame of video data Browser The HTTP URL of any document that the embedded browser should load automatically and show immediately after each restart For example the URL that you enter might point to an HTML page wit...

Page 22: ... DS Your DMP has a private IP address because its deployment site uses a one to one implementation of network address translation NAT HTTP Proxy HTTP Proxy Indicates whether your DMP uses a proxy server Select an option from the list Enabled Your DMP sends and receives HTTP traffic through the specified proxy Disabled Your DMP does not use a proxy IP Address The proxy server IP address or routable...

Page 23: ...rency for that content element Note We recommend that you do not change the factory default for this setting Screen Rotation Angle Clockwise Indicates whether you have rotated the HTML content plane and shows the amount of rotation You might choose to rotate the HTML content plane if you have rotated your DMP display Note The rotation feature applies only to content that plays on the HTML content ...

Page 24: ...ment Description Display Display Standard The name of the standard that your DMP display uses Generally this attribute names the manufacturer and the type of display such as plasma or LCD in combination with other information To learn which option is the correct one for you to select see the manual that came with your DMP display Display Output Interface The type of video cable that connects your ...

Page 25: ...ee the manual that came with your DMP display The options are RGB RBG GRB GBR BRG BGR Brightness The setting that compensates for any deficiencies in the on screen brightness of your DMP display Brightness compensation values can range from 128 to 127 Contrast The setting that compensates for any deficiencies in the on screen contrast of your DMP display Contrast compensation values can range from...

Page 26: ...ppliance that you identify in the DMM Host text box DMM Host The IP address or routable DNS name of the one DMM appliance that your DMP trusts Table 2 5 GUI Elements on the Advanced Video Page Element Description Advanced Video X of Destination Window Relative Coordinates The absolute center point of your DMP display as measured from left to right on the x axis in pixels Reduce the value to move d...

Page 27: ...ll Indicates whether you enabled or disabled DMP login access for Cisco technical support staff Enabled Your DMP allows Cisco technical support staff to log in Disabled Your DMP does not allow Cisco technical support staff to log in Note We do not support the use of this feature by anyone except a Cisco employee MIB Event Notification Indicates whether you enabled or disabled the feature to send e...

Page 28: ... content simultaneously Showing or Stopping Video Content from a UDP Multicast Stream page 2 10 Showing or Stopping Video Content from an HTTP URL page 2 11 Showing or Stopping Video Content from a File Stored on Your DMP page 2 11 Adjusting the Transparency of the HTML Content Plane page 2 12 Specifying the URL to Show on the HTML Content Plane page 2 13 Supported Fonts page 2 14 Showing or Stopp...

Page 29: ...you mounted or to stop showing that video content do the following Step 1 In the Display Actions list click Local Storage Playback Step 2 Enter or edit the required values as described in Table 2 9 Step 3 Do one of the following To start showing the video content immediately click Start To stop showing the video content immediately click Stop Step 4 Optional To put all changed values into effect p...

Page 30: ...they persist even after your DMP restarts select Administration Save Configuration and when the Save Configuration page appears click Save Table 2 9 GUI Elements on the Local Storage Playback Page Element Description Local Storage Playback Local Storage Path The local path to the video file For a file that is stored on the Secure Digital SD flash memory card inside your DMP the pathname starts wit...

Page 31: ...e amount of transparency that you configure for all content that your DMP shows on the HTML plane The HTML plane and the video plane can overlap and you will see the video content plane through the HTML content pane if both of the following are true You show video content and HTML content simultaneously The HTML content plane touches any of the same x axis and y axis coordinates that the video con...

Page 32: ...es for a theatrical film do not require that any font be installed Similarly when a font is embedded within a Flash file that you show the Flash file will load correctly even if the corresponding font is not installed on your DMP Supported X11 Bitmap Fonts page 2 15 Supported TrueType Fonts page 2 16 Table 2 11 GUI Elements on the URL to be Displayed Page Element Description URL To Be Displayed UR...

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Page 35: ...Apply the entries or changes take effect However the previously defined values will return as soon as the next time that your DMP restarts Step 4 Optional To put all changed values into effect permanently so that they persist even after your DMP restarts select Administration Save Configuration and when the Save Configuration page appears click Save Editing the FTP User Account If you configured y...

Page 36: ...restart your DMP after you change a setting Restoring Factory Default Settings You can restore factory settings to your DMP Caution When you restore the factory settings to your DMP you delete every setting that you have configured If you delete your settings accidentally you must reenter every value manually Step 1 In the Administration list click Default Settings Step 2 When the Restore Default ...

Page 37: ...lick Start Upgrade Note Until messages in DMPDM tell you that your DMP has loaded the firmware image and started to burn it do not click any link or button to move away from this page If you move to any other page before your DMP tells you that it has started to burn the upgraded firmware image the upgrade does not occur Table 2 14 GUI Elements on the Upgrade Firmware Page Field Description Upgrad...

Page 38: ...nt of available space for local file storage on the SD memory card is 1 GB If you will use DMM DSM to show a file in a zone the filesize limit is 1 9 GB For purposes of stage one failover the combined size of all files cannot exceed 900 MB Step 4 Show the media files on the attached DMP display See Showing or Stopping Video Content from a File Stored on Your DMP page 2 11 Showing Content Files Tha...

Page 39: ...attached DMP display See Showing or Stopping Video Content from a File Stored on Your DMP page 2 11 Viewing the DMPDM About Box To see information about your copy of DMPDM click About You cannot change the information Viewing the DMP Device License Number To see the license number for your DMP click User Unique Device Identifier You cannot change the information ...

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