User Guide for Cisco Digital Media Manager 4.0

DMP Groups

A hierarchical tree (an object selector) of DMP groups, subgroups, and DMPs. From the object selector, you can add or remove group assignments for registered DMPs, create new groups, edit existing groups, and make selections for which DMPs the DMP List pane should describe.

One group can contain another and the choices that you make for centralized management propagate from parent (DMP group), to child (DMP subgroup or DMP), to grandchild (DMP). There is no maximum number of levels that you can add to the hierarchy, but a simpler organization is more scalable than an unreasonably complex one would be. We recommend that you do not assign any DMP to the root level in the hierarchy, due to the complexity of management, but you can if you choose to.

• ("Add New DMP Group") — Shows the Add New DMP Group pane, where you enter a name and description for the group and where you have the option to define one or more ranges of IP addresses that DMM-DSM should use to autoregister DMPs.

• ("Edit DMP Group") — Shows the Edit DMP Group pane.

• ("Delete DMP Group") — Deletes the group that you highlighted.

• ("Opened Group") — Shows the list of group members until you click to hide them.

• ("Closed Group") — Hides the list of group members until you click to show them.

• ("DMP") — A DMP that you assigned to the relevant parent group.

DMP List

A list of all DMPs contained in (or under) the level that you clicked in the DMP Groups object selector. To see a list of every registered DMP, click the group that represents the root level of your digital signage network.  

Tip The interval between polling cycles is 2 minutes, so any newly added DMP might report temporarily that it is unavailable; if this happens to you, wait a few minutes, then check again.

•Actions — List from which you can select an action or task for DMM-DSM to perform on one or more DMPs that you selected. After you select the DMPs and the action, click Go. The specified action starts immediately.

• ("Add New DMP") — Shows the Add New DMP pane, where you enter a name, IP address, MAC address, and description for the DMP.

• ("Edit DMP") — Shows the Edit DMP pane. A registered DMP might become unavailable if it receives a new dynamic IP address from the DHCP server at its deployment site. In this case, you should edit the IP address record that DMM-DSM maintains for the DMP.

• ("Delete DMP") — Deletes the DMP that you highlighted.

• ("Assign DMP to Group") — Creates an association between at least one DMP and at least one group. Do the following:

1. Click .

2. In the DMP List pane, click one or more DMPs to select them.

3. In the object selector, click one or more DMP groups that the selected DMPs should join.

4. Click again.

• ("Remove DMP from Group") — Deletes the association between at least one DMP and at least one group. Do the following:

1. Click .

2. In the DMP List pane, click one or more DMPs to select them.

3. In the object selector, click one or more DMP groups from which to disassociate the selected DMPs.

4. Click again.

•The untitled table sorts DMP information into these columns:

–Status — Says whether a DMP is reachable. A green icon () tells you that the DMP is connected to a power source, uses a known IP address, and is reachable. A red icon () tells you that the DMP is unreachable.

–Name — A unique and human-readable name that you entered or that DMM-DSM chose; If DMM-DSM chose the name, it is either the DMP IP address or MAC address.

–IP — The public IP address that receives instructions and data from DMM-DSM.

–Version — The release number for the installed firmware version.

–Description — The description that you entered.

{Add New | Edit} DMP Group

You can create or edit a DMP group. You must specify the group name and description. In addition, you can populate the group automatically with all the DMPs in any CIDR address range that you specify.¹

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Caution When you autodiscover a DMP, it restarts immediately even if it is already centrally managed by a different DMM appliance than the one that you are using, and even if it is showing digital signage content on a DMP display. Therefore, we recommend that you be careful to autodiscover only those DMPs that you are not already managing from any DMM appliance. Otherwise, you might temporarily disrupt content delivery in your digital signage network.

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Options are as follows:

•Name — A unique and human-readable name for the group.

•Description — A brief description of the group and its purpose.

• ("Add New Range") — One or more ranges of IP addresses that DMM-DSM should use to autoregister DMPs.

• ("Delete a Range") — Deletes the range that you highlighted.

•Automatic Grouping Ranges — Shows a list of all the defined CIDR address ranges. Click a range to edit it.

•Range (CIDR) — The text box where you edit one CIDR address range at a time.

Note For DMP autodiscovery to succeed, the routers, switches, and firewalls that pass packets between your DMM appliance and the specified CIDR address range must allow TCP ports 6666 and 7777 to send and receive packets.

Autodiscovery operations follow this sequence:

1. DMM-DSM scans every device in the specified CIDR address range, looking for devices where TCP ports 6666 and 7777 are both open.

2. After finding a device with those ports open, DMM-DSM learns the IP address for the device and compares that IP address to a list of registered DMPs.

Note A registered DMP might receive a new dynamic IP address from the DHCP server at its deployment site and the new IP address might be within the CIDR range that you specified for autodiscovery. In this case, DMM-DSM will not centrally manage the DMP until you edit the IP address record that DMM-DSM maintains for the DMP.

3. When one of these IP addresses does not match any DMP that DMM-DSM has registered (even if it is registered with a different dynamic IP address or centrally managed by a different DMM appliance than the one that you are using), DMM-DSM assumes that the associated device is an unregistered DMP and transmits DMP-specific instructions to the device, including an instruction to restart.

4. If the device is a DMP, it restarts.

5. If the DMP is not centrally managed already by a different DMM appliance, it transmits information to DMM-DSM to enable centralized management of the DMP as an endpoint in your digital signage network.

{Add New | Edit} DMP

Note We recommend that you never use manual registration for any medium- or large-scale deployment. To understand autoregistration, see the "{Add New | Edit} DMP Group" row, elsewhere in this table.

Make selections and enter required values to add one DMP manually:

•DMP Name — A unique and human-readable name for the DMP.

•DMP IP — The public IP address that receives instructions and data from DMM-DSM.

•DMP MAC — The MAC address that the DMP NIC uses.

•DMP Description — Optional, brief description of the DMP, its deployment site, or anything that is relevant or meaningful to you.

¹ You can schedule multiple DMP discovery operations to run simultaneously if they all search the same one subnet. If the DMP discovery operations that you configure do not all search the same one subnet, you should not schedule them to run simultaneously. If you do, only the first such operation will run and DMM-DSM will not show any error message to explain why the other discovery operations failed to find any DMPs. If you must run DMP discovery tasks that search different subnets, schedule a 35-minute interval between the start time for one discovery and the start time for the next discovery. (In a very large network that contains thousands of DMPs, the required interval might be longer than 35 minutes.)

Content Categories

An unsorted, nonhierarchical list (an object selector) of all the content categories in your digital signage network media library. From the object selector, you can create new content categories, edit existing categories, delete categories, or click the one category that the Content List pane should describe. You can add almost any number of categories to your media library, but you cannot make any category subordinate to any other category.

Note You can add content items at the root level of your media library, but we recommend that you do not. If you do, you must manage those content items one at a time, instead of managing them as a group.

A content category contains content items.

• ("Add New Content Category") — Shows the Add New Content Category pane, where you enter a name and description for the category.

• ("Edit Content Category") — Shows the Edit Content Category pane.

• ("Delete Content Category") — Deletes the category that you highlighted.

• ("Opened Media Library") — Shows all the content categories in your media library.

• ("Closed Media Library") — Hides the list of content categories until you click to show them.

• ("Content Category") — A content category that you created.

Content List

Note You cannot assign any content item to more than one category, and you cannot move any content item directly from one category to another. To move content between two categories, you must delete the content item entry in the first category, then create an equivalent entry in the second category.

A list of all files contained in the category that you clicked in the Content Categories object selector.

• ("Add New Content Item") — Shows the Add New Content Item pane, where you enter the local pathname or HTTP URL that points to the file, specify the content type, enter a meaningful name (which can differ from the filename), enter a description, and specify who added the content item to the relevant content category.

Note Depending on the filesize and on network performance, a large file might take several minutes to import. If you navigate to any other page while DMM-DSM is importing a file, import fails.

• ("Edit Content Item") — Shows the Edit Content Item pane.

• ("Delete Content Item") — Deletes the file that you highlighted.

• ("Batch Content Download") — Shows the Batch Content Download pane, where you can enter a base HTTP URL for any directory a server, specify what filename pattern identifies the files to download, select the content type, and select how many levels to search under the specified base URL for files whose filenames match the specified pattern.

•The untitled table sorts content item information into these columns:

–Name — A unique and human-readable name that you entered.

–Type — Says whether the content item is a file (F) or an HTTP URL (U).

–Size — The filesize in bytes.

–Path — The full pathname that points to the content file on the DMP.

–Description — The description that you entered.

–Upload Started — Time stamp (in the format YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss:ms) that says when you started to upload the file.

–Upload Finished — Time stamp (in the format YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss:ms) that says when the file was completely uploaded.

–Status — Says whether a DMP is reachable. A green icon () tells you that the DMP is connected to a power source, uses a known IP address, and is reachable. A red icon () tells you that the DMP is unreachable.

{Add New | Edit} Content Category

Make selections and enter required values.

•Name — A unique and human-readable name for the content category.

•Description — A brief description of the category and its purpose.

{Add New | Edit} Content

Make selections and enter required values to add one content item, then click Submit.

Note In this release, we do not support any use of JPEG files.

•Source — The full local pathname or remote HTTP URL of the content item. Do one of the following:

–Click File, then click Browse or enter the full local pathname.

–Click URL, enter the URL, then select or deselect the Download URL check box to choose whether to download a local copy of the file or use the version of it that is stored remotely.

•Content Type — Select the content type that best applies to the content item:

–DMP Firmware Image — A firmware image for the DMP.

–Flash — An Adobe (Macromedia) Flash 6 content file. The filename extension must be SWF.

–MPEG-1/2 — A content file in either MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 format.

–MPEG-4 — A content file in MPEG-4 format.

Before you add any MPEG file, confirm that its filesize is not more than 1.9 GB, which is the maximum size for any file that you include in a zoning application.

For purposes of stage-one failover, the combined size of all files cannot exceed 900 MB. To understand failover, see the "Understanding Content Substitution (Failover)" topic in User Guide for Cisco Digital Media Player Device Manager 1.0 on Cisco.com.

Note Our support for MPEG-4 requires that you use the MPEG-4 Part 2 codec and that you multiplex audio and video in an MPEG-2 transport stream.

•Name — A unique and human-readable name for the content item.

•Description — Optional, brief description of the DMP, its deployment site, or anything that is relevant or meaningful to you.

•Creator — Your name or the name of the person who added the content item.

Note After you start to import a content item, do not click any browser button or navigate away from this page until the import is finished. If you do, the import will not finish successfully.

Batch Content Download

Make selections and enter required values to add multiple content items, then click Submit. The amount of time that the batch download operation requires depends on the speed of your connection, the number of directory levels that you search for downloadable files, and the total combined filesize of all files that you transfer.

Note In this release, we do not support the use of JPEG files.

•Base URL — An HTTP URL that points to a directory on a server. The directory that you point to serves as the root-level URL for the batch download operation; every file that you download is retrieved from this directory or from one of its children at a lower level.

•Pattern — The filename pattern that identifies which files to download. For example, to download every file that uses the three-letter MPG filename extension, the pattern is *.MPG.

Note Do not enter the filename pattern to use any unsupported filetype. For example, we do not support any use of JPEG files in this release.

•Content Type — Select the content type that best applies to files in the batch download:

–DMP FS Image — Firmware image files for DMPs.

–Flash — Adobe (Macromedia) Flash 6 content files. The filename extension must be SWF.

–MPEG-1/2 — Content files in either MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 format.

–MPEG-4 — Content files in MPEG-4 format.

•Levels — The number of levels below the specified base URL to search for (and download) files with filenames that match the specified pattern.

Step 1 

Click Scheduler.

Click Immediate.

Step 2 

From the Applications list, select a zoning application that contains the playlist.

In the DMP Groups object selector, click the name of a DMP group to see its member DMPs in the DMP List table.

Note We do not support immediate publishing to external publishing servers. You must schedule all publishing jobs that use external servers. See the column to the right of this column.

Step 3 

From the DMP Groups list, select the DMP group that should show the playlist.

Alternatively, you can select an external publishing server from the DMP Groups list.

Note If you select an external publishing server and if you select a playlist that contains MPEG files to retrieve from an HTTP URL, the displayed value for that URL does not change in the Selected Content table, even though you might think that it should change. See the "Selected Content" row in Table 3-3.

In the DMP List table, select the check box for each DMP that should show MPEG files from the playlist.

Step 4 

From the How Often list, select an option to control the interval between showings.

From the Actions list, select the name of the zoning application that contains the playlist.

Step 5 

Click Select Target Date, then select the calendar date for the first showing.

Click Go.

Step 6 

In the From area, click , then select the hour and minute to start showing content items in the playlist.

Step 7 

In the To area, click , then select the calendar date, hour, and minute to stop showing content items in the playlist.

Step 8 

Click Save, then click Publish.

Name

A unique and human-readable name for the MPEG playlist. The name is unique in the sense that you have not used it as the name for any other application that you created in DMM-DSM.

Description

A brief description of the MPEG playlist and its purpose.

Play

Select whether the MPEG playlist should play repeatedly from start to finish:

•In Loop — The playlist does not stop until you stop it. After it completes a cycle, it starts again automatically.

•Once — The playlist stops after one cycle that shows every content item once.

Content Categories

An object selector that lists all the content categories in your media library. From the object selector, click the one category that the Available Content table should describe. To learn more about content categories, see Creating and Categorizing Digital Signage Content.

• ("Opened Media Library") — Shows all the content categories in your media library.

• ("Closed Media Library") — Hides the list of content categories until you click to show them.

• ("Content Category") — A content category that you created.

Available Content

Describes every available MPEG file in the content category that you clicked. Click any other content category to see different MPEG files in the Available Content table.

One table row describes one MPEG file. An MPEG file is considered available if it is not already included in the playlist that you are creating or editing. You can move files from the Available Content table to the Selected Content table. To select a file, click it.

The elements and options are:

• ("Add Selected Items") Moves the selected MPEG file to the Selected Content table, so that it will be part of the playlist.

•Name — A unique and human-readable name that you entered.

•Type — Says whether the MPEG file (F) is stored locally or should be retrieved from an HTTP URL (U).

•Type — The file format.

•Size — The filesize in bytes.

•Path — Says which content category contains the described file.

•Description — The description that you entered.

•Upload Started — Time stamp (in the format YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss:ms) that says when you started to upload the file.

•Upload Finished — Time stamp (in the format YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss:ms) that says when the file was completely uploaded.

•Status — Tells you the current status of the file.

Selected Content

Tip If the screen resolution is low on your PC, you might notice that the Selected Content area is so small in the DMM-DSM user interface that it is difficult to use. To work around this problem temporarily, even if you are unable to use the settings for a higher resolution, press  F11.

Describes every MPEG file in the playlist that you are creating or editing. The elements and options are:

• ("Move Selected Item Up") — Reorders the list so that the highlighted MPEG file moves up one row, exchanging places with the file that was above it.

• ("Move Selected Item Down") — Reorders the list so that the highlighted MPEG file moves down one row, exchanging places with the file that was below it.

• ("Edit Duration for Selected Item") — Makes the Pic Show Time value editable, so that you can change the number of seconds that your DMP displays show the highlighted MPEG file.

• ("Delete Selected Item") — Moves the highlighted MPEG file from the playlist to the Available Content table.

• ("Zoom In") — Shows only the playlist, hiding the Available Content table.

• ("Zoom Out") — Shows the playlist and the Available Content table simultaneously.

•Name — The name that you entered for the MPEG file.

•Pic Show Time — The number of seconds that the MPEG file will be visible when you show it on a DMP display. To enter or change the number of seconds, click . If you do not specify a duration for playback, the file plays to completion.

•Type — Says whether the MPEG file is stored locally or should be retrieved from an HTTP URL.

•Path — Says which content category contains the described MPEG file or shows the HTTP URL.

Note If you publish the playlist to an external server, nothing changes about the value that the Path column shows for an MPEG file, even though you might expect it to change so that it shows the path on the external server. The value is unchanged because you might publish the playlist more than once or to more than one server and because the original file is not deleted.

If the value in the Path column is an HTTP URL that contains one or more named subdirectories, and you publish the playlist to an external (FTP) server, DMM-DSM automatically creates subdirectories with exactly those same names on that external server. It is not necessary for you to recreate the subdirectories manually.

Name

A unique and human-readable name for the Flash application. The name is unique in the sense that you have not used it as the name for any other application that you created in DMM-DSM.

Description

A brief description of the Flash application and its purpose.

Content Categories

An object selector that lists all the content categories in your media library. From the object selector, click the one category that the Available Content table should describe. To learn more about content categories, see Creating and Categorizing Digital Signage Content.

• ("Opened Media Library") — Shows all the content categories in your media library.

• ("Closed Media Library") — Hides the list of content categories until you click to show them.

• ("Content Category") — A content category that you created.

Available Content

Describes every available content item in the content category that you clicked. Click any other content category to see different content items in the Available Content table.

One table row describes one file. To select a file, click anywhere in the corresponding row.

•Name — A unique and human-readable name that you entered.

•Source — Says whether the content item is a file (F) or an HTTP URL (U).

•Type — The content type, which should be Flash.

•Size — The filesize in bytes.

•Path — Says which content category contains the described content item.

•Description — The description that you entered.

•Upload Started — Time stamp (in the format YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss:ms) that says when you started to upload the file.

•Upload Finished — Time stamp (in the format YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss:ms) that says when the file was completely uploaded.

•Status — Tells you the current status of the content element.

Name

A unique and human-readable name for this zoning application. You must enter a name. The name is unique in the sense that you have not used it as the name for any other application that you created in DMM-DSM.

Description

A brief description of this zoning application and its purpose. The description is optional.

Background Color

The hexidecimal number (hex triplet) that describes the background color. Enter a number manually or click Pick to open a color picker. In the color picker, you can select a color for which DMM-DSM automatically enters the correct hexidecimal number.

Text Color

The hexidecimal number (hex triplet) that describes the text color. Enter a number manually or click Pick to open a color picker. In the color picker, you can select a color for which DMM-DSM automatically enters the correct hexidecimal number. The color that you use should be one that results in clear and legible text against the background color that you specified; if there is not enough difference between the two colors, your audience might not see information clearly when you use this zoning application to show text on a DMP display.

Template Type

Defines virtual subdivisions (zones) of the screen on a DMP display. Each zone shows one content item at a time. DMPs show zones simultaneously and the actual number of zones is determined by the template that you select. The templates are:

Logo-Video

Subdivides the screen into two zones.

Logo-Video-Flash

Subdivides the screen into three zones.

Logo-Video-Flash-Ticker

Subdivides the screen into four zones.

Click a zone in the zoning map to see options for the type of zone that you clicked. If you click:

•The Logo zone — The page is refreshed and shows both the Content Categories object selector and the Available Content table. Select a category from the object selector to see descriptions of its content items in the table. Click a content item in the table to select that item as the one to show in the Logo zone. The supported filetype is SWF (Flash 6).

•The Video zone — The page is refreshed and lists all of the playlists that you have created. Click a playlist to select it as the one to show in the Video zone.

•The Flash zone — The page is refreshed and lists all of the Flash Applications that you have created. Click a Flash Application to select it as the one to show in the Flash zone. Flash 6 content files must use the filename extension SWF.

•The Ticker zone — The page is refreshed and shows a large text box where you can enter the text to show in the ticker.

Content Categories

Tip If the screen resolution is low on your PC, you might notice that the Content Categories area is so small in the DMM-DSM user interface that it is difficult to use. To work around this problem temporarily, even if you are unable to use the settings for a higher resolution, press  F11.

An object selector that lists all the content categories in your media library. From the object selector, click the one category that the Available Content table should describe.

• ("Opened Media Library") — Shows all the content categories in your media library.

• ("Closed Media Library") — Hides the list of content categories until you click to show them.

• ("Content Category") — A content category that you created.

Tip To learn more about content categories, see Creating and Categorizing Digital Signage Content.

Available Content

A table in which you can click any row to select one content item in the specified content category. The table sorts content item information into these columns:

•Name — A unique and human-readable name that you entered.

•Type — Says whether the content item is a file (F) or an HTTP URL (U).

•Size — The filesize in bytes.

•Path — The full pathname that points to the content file on the DMP.

Before you add any MPEG file, confirm that its filesize is not more than 1.9 GB, which is the maximum size for any file that you include in a zoning application. For purposes of stage-one failover, the combined size of all files cannot exceed 900 MB. To understand failover, see the "Understanding Content Substitution (Failover)" topic in User Guide for Cisco Digital Media Player Device Manager 1.0 on Cisco.com.

•Description — A brief description. The description is optional.

•Upload Started — Time stamp (in the format YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss:ms) that says when you started to upload the file.

•Upload Finished — Time stamp (in the format YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss:ms) that says when the file was completely uploaded.

•Status — Says whether a DMP is reachable. A green icon () tells you that the DMP is connected to a power source, uses a known IP address, and is reachable. A red icon () tells you that the DMP is unreachable.

DMP Discovery

Discover the DMPs in a network range that you specify and add those DMPs to DMM-DSM for centralized management.

DMP Video/Audio Settings

Adjust the audio and video signals that DMPs send to their attached DMP displays.

Go to URL

Load content from a web server into the embedded DMP browser.

Flash

Load content from a SWF (Flash 6) file into the embedded DMP browser.

Multicasts

Receive and show a multicast video stream.

Playlists

Create lists of content to show in a particular sequence.

Publishing

Deliver to particular DMPs or to external (FTP) publishing servers the commands and settings from applications that you select or configure under the Applications tab.

Startup URL

Configure DMPs to load a particular HTTP URL when you start or restart them.

System Tasks:

Select an administrative command for delivery to DMPs:

•Default

Restore factory default settings to DMPs.

•FTP {Off | On}

Enable or disable the FTP service on DMPs.

•Reboot

Restart DMPs.

•Save Settings

Save the settings that are active on DMPs.

•Save Settings and Reboot

Save the settings that are active on DMPs, then restart them.

•Show {Browser | Video}

Show one DMP content plane and hide the other.

•Status

See the DMP status message in real time.

•Stop All Applications

Stop every application that DMPs are running.

•Transparency 50%

Set the browser plane to be partially transparent and show the video plane through it.

•Upgrade Status

See the DMP upgrade status message in real time.

•Version

See the installed DMP firmware version number.

Upgrade DMP

Select the firmware upgrades and patches to deliver to DMPs.

Zoning

Configure screen zones to show content from particular files and playlists.

DMP Discovery

Discover the DMPs in a network range that you specify and add those DMPs to DMM-DSM for centralized management. The elements and options are:

•Name — A unique and human-readable name for the autodiscovery IP address range. You must enter a name. The name is unique in the sense that you have not used it as the name for any other application that you created in DMM-DSM.

•Description — A brief description. The description is optional.

•Discovery IP Range — The CIDR syntax to describe one or multiple ranges of IP addresses.

To learn about other autodiscovery options for the DMPs in your digital signage network, see the "{Add New | Edit} DMP" row in Table 3-1.

Note You can schedule multiple DMP Discovery operations to run simultaneously if they all search the same one subnet. If the DMP Discovery operations that you configure do not all search the same one subnet, you should not schedule them to run simultaneously. If you do, only the first such operation will run and DMM-DSM will not show any error message to explain why the other discovery operations failed to find any DMPs. If you must run DMP Discovery tasks that search different subnets, schedule a 35-minute interval between the start time for one discovery and the start time for the next discovery.

DMP Video/Audio Settings

Adjust the audio and video signals that DMPs send to their attached DMP displays. The elements and options are:

•Name — A unique and human-readable name for the settings that you configure. For example, you might adjust the brightness setting to accommodate a locale where the lighting is dim, then enter a name that identifies that kind of locale. You must enter a name. The name is unique in the sense that you have not used it as the name for any other application that you created in DMM-DSM.

•Description — A brief description. The description is optional.

•Brightness — The setting that compensates for any deficiencies in the on-screen brightness of your DMP displays. 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 displays. Contrast compensation values can range from 0 to 255. The default is 128.

•Saturation — The setting that compensates for any deficiencies in the on-screen color saturation of your DMP displays. Saturation compensation values can range from 0 to 255. The default is 128.

•Left Audio Channel Volume — The setting to control how loudly or softly your DMP display speakers play sound in the left audio channel. Volume can range from 0 to 100, where 0 is silent. The default is 50.

•Right Audio Channel Volume — The setting to control how loudly or softly your DMP display speakers play sound in the left audio channel. Volume can range from 0 to 100, where 0 is silent. The default is 50.

Go to URL

Load content from a web server into the embedded DMP browser. The elements and options are:

•Name — A unique and human-readable name for the website that you will show. You must enter a name. The name is unique in the sense that you have not used it as the name for any other application that you created in DMM-DSM.

•Description — A brief description. The description is optional.

•URL — The full and correct HTTP URL that points to a page or file on a webserver. The URL that you enter should point to a page that is dynamic and does not require any human interaction (such as clicking or scrolling) to be useful or interesting. You must enter a URL.

Flash

Load a SWF (Flash 6) file into the embedded DMP browser and change the DMP startup URL so that the Flash application loads quickly after a DMP restarts or recovers from problems with its network connection. The elements and options are:

•Name — A unique and human-readable name for the SWF (Flash 6) content file, which you can show full-screen on your DMP displays. You must enter a name. The name is unique in the sense that you have not used it as the name for any other application that you created in DMM-DSM.

•Description — A brief description. The description is optional.

•Content Categories — An object selector that lists all the content categories in your media library. From the object selector, click the one category that the Available Content table should describe. To learn more about content categories, see Creating and Categorizing Digital Signage Content.

– ("Opened Media Library") — Shows all the content categories in your media library.

– ("Closed Media Library") — Hides the list of content categories until you click to show them.

– ("Content Category") — A content category that you created.

•Available Content — A table in which you can click any row to select one content item in the specified content category. The table sorts content item information into these columns:

–Name — A unique and human-readable name that you entered.

–Type — Says whether the content item is a file (F) or an HTTP URL (U).

–Size — The filesize in bytes.

–Path — The full pathname that points to the content file on the DMP.

–Description — A brief description. The description is optional.

–Upload Started — Time stamp (in the format YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss:ms) that says when you started to upload the file.

–Upload Finished — Time stamp (in the format YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss:ms) that says when the file was completely uploaded.

–Status — Says whether a DMP is reachable. A green icon () tells you that the DMP is connected to a power source, uses a known IP address, and is reachable. A red icon () tells you that the DMP is unreachable.

Multicasts

Causes DMPs to receive and show the multicast video stream from a server that you specify and changes the DMP startup URL so that the multicast application loads quickly after a DMP restarts or recovers from problems with its network connection. The elements and options are:

•Name — A unique and human-readable name for the multicast stream or its server. You must enter a name. The name is unique in the sense that you have not used it as the name for any other application that you created in DMM-DSM.

•Description — A brief description. The description is optional.

•Stream Type — Shows the type of stream. The supported stream type is UDP.

Note DMM-DSM cannot show MPEG-1 files in a UDP multicast stream.

•IP — The IP address of the multicast server. You must enter an IP address.

•Port — The logical port number through which the multicast server transmits the stream. You must enter the port number.

Playlists

Describes the sequence of MPEG files that a zoning application should play in its video zone and changes the DMP startup URL so that the playlist application loads quickly after a DMP restarts or recovers from problems with its network connection. See Creating and Organizing Digital Signage Playlists.

Publishing

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Caution Before you use a Publishing application to deploy a new or updated zoning template to any of your DMPs, you must first run the "Stop All Applications" system task on each affected DMP. To do so, click the Publisher tab, select the DMP group that will use the zoning template, select Stop All Applications from the Actions list, then click Go.

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Deliver to particular DMPs the commands and settings from applications that you select or configure under the Applications tab. See Delivering Saved Commands and Content Files to Your DMPs. The elements and options are:

•Name — A unique and human-readable name for this publishing job. You must enter a name. The name is unique in the sense that you have not used it as the name for any other application that you created in DMM-DSM.

•Description — A brief description. The description is optional.

•Application Types — The list of application categories. Click a category to see the applications in it.

•Available Applications — Applications in the category that you clicked. Click anywhere in a row to select the corresponding application.

– ("Select Applications") — Moves from the Available Applications table to the Selected Applications table the applications that you selected.

–Name — The unique and human-readable name that identifies a particular application.

–Description — A brief description. The description is optional.

Tip Although it is technically possible, it is not useful to publish a system task application, a go to URL application, or a startup URL application.

•Selected Applications — Applications that you selected from the Available Applications table, to include them in the Publishing operation that you are configuring. Click an application to select it, so that you can use

– ("Move Selected Item Up") — Reorders the list so that the highlighted item moves up one row, exchanging places with the item that was above it.

– ("Move Selected Item Down") — Reorders the list so that the highlighted item moves down one row, exchanging places with the item that was below it.

– ("Delete Selected Item") — Moves from the Selected Applications table to the Available Applications table the applications that you selected.

– ("Zoom In") — Shows only the Selected Applications table, hiding the Available Applications table.

– ("Zoom Out") — Shows the Selected Applications table and the Available Applications table simultaneously.

Startup URL

Causes DMPs to load and show content that you specify, immediately after every restart. The elements and options are:

•Name — A unique and human-readable name for the content at the specified URL. You must enter a name. The name is unique in the sense that you have not used it as the name for any other application that you created in DMM-DSM.

•Description — A brief description. The description is optional.

•Video URL — The HTTP URL (or local path on the DMP) that points to an encoded digital video file — or playlist — that a DMP should load automatically and show immediately after every restart. If your entry points to a playlist, the "playlist" is an ASCII text file as defined in Table 1-1; it is not a "playlist" as described in the "Creating and Organizing Digital Signage Playlists" section. The supported transport protocols and URL types are:

–http://<ip_address>/<path_and_filename>

–udp:<ip_address_of_multicast_server>/<port_number>

–playlist=http://<ip_address>/<path_and_filename>

–playlist=file:///<path_and_filename>

Note If you enter a Video URL that points to an audio file instead of a video file, a DMP that receives this instruction will play the audio but show only a black screen on its DMP display.

•Browser URL — The HTTP URL of any document that the embedded browser on a DMP should load automatically and show immediately after each restart. We recommend that you do not point to any document or site that requires human interaction to be useful, interesting, or entertaining, because there is no keyboard or mouse that you can use to interact with what you show on a DMP display.

•Reboot — Select the check box if a DMP should restart immediately when it receives this instruction. Deselect the check box if no immediate restart is required.

System Tasks

Predefined system commands that you can send to a DMP. When you create or edit a system task, these are the elements:

•Name — A unique and human-readable name for the system task. You must enter a name. The name is unique in the sense that you have not used it as the name for any other application that you created in DMM-DSM.

•Description — A brief description. The description is optional.

•Request Type — A list in which the options are Get and Set, in the sense that you can set new values on a DMP or instruct DMM-DSM to get information from a DMP.

•Request — The command string.

These system tasks tell you about a DMP:

•Status — See the current operational status message in real time.

•Version — See the installed firmware version number.

•Upgrade Status — See whether an upgrade is in progress or see information about the most recent upgrade.

These system tasks show or hide content on a DMP display:

•Show Browser — Show only the HTML content plane.

•Show Video — Show only the video plane.

•Transparency 50% — Set the HTML plane to be partially transparent and show the video content plane through it.

These system tasks help you to limit administrative access to a DMP:

•FTP Off — Stop the FTP service.

•FTP On — Start the FTP service.

These system tasks help you to administer a DMP:

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Caution If you restore factory-default settings on a DMP, you must set it up again, exactly as you would set up a brand-new DMP. (To learn how to set up a DMP, see Quick Start Guide for Cisco Digital Media Player 4300G on Cisco.com.) If you restart a DMP, you will disrupt whatever it is doing at that time. If you save any configuration settings mistakenly, you must reenter the correct settings manually.

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•Default — Restore factory-default settings.

•Reboot — Restart now.

•Save Settings — Save the current definitions for all configuration settings.

•Save Settings and Reboot — Save the current definitions for all configuration settings, then restart.

•Stop All Applications — Stop any applications that the DMP is running.

Upgrade DMP

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Caution Before you install an upgrade, you must run the "Stop All Applications" system task on all the affected DMPs. To do so, click the Publisher tab, select the DMP group that you will upgrade, select Stop All Applications from the Actions list, then click Go.

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Send a content item (of the "DMP FS Image" content type) from your media library to a DMP and send commands to install the new firmware image. The elements and options are:

•Name — A unique and human-readable name for the upgrade application. You must enter a name. The name is unique in the sense that you have not used it as the name for any other application that you created in DMM-DSM.

•Description — A brief description. The description is optional.

•Content Categories — An object selector that lists all the content categories in your media library. From the object selector, click the one category that the Available Content table should describe. To learn more about content categories, see Creating and Categorizing Digital Signage Content.

– ("Opened Media Library") — Shows all the content categories in your media library.

– ("Closed Media Library") — Hides the list of content categories until you click to show them.

– ("Content Category") — A content category that you created.

•Available Content — A table in which you can click any row to select one content item in the specified content category. The table sorts content item information into these columns:

–Name — A unique and human-readable name that you entered.

–Type — Says whether the content item is a file (F) or an HTTP URL (U).

–Size — The filesize in bytes.

–Path — The full pathname that points to the content file on the DMP.

–Description — A brief description. The description is optional.

–Upload Started — Time stamp (in the format YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss:ms) that says when you started to upload the file.

–Upload Finished — Time stamp (in the format YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss:ms) that says when the file was completely uploaded.

–Status — Says whether a DMP is reachable. A green icon () tells you that the DMP is connected to a power source, uses a known IP address, and is reachable. A red icon () tells you that the DMP is unreachable.

Zoning

Divide a DMP display virtually into areas called screen zones, play particular content types simultaneously in each of those zones, change the DMP startup URL so that the zoning application loads quickly after a DMP restarts or recovers from problems with its network connection, and restart each targeted DMP automatically. See Working with Screen Zones.

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Users List

Add, select, edit, or delete user accounts.

•Click a username to highlight it, so that you can edit or delete it. DMM-DSM automatically shows the Change User pane for the corresponding account, where you can edit its settings.

• ("Add New User") — Shows the Add New User pane, where you can define the settings for a new user account.

• ("Delete User") — Deletes the user account that you highlighted.

{Add New | Change} User

You can add or edit a user account. Elements and options are as follows:

•Name — A unique username. The name is unique in the sense that you have not used it as the name for any other user account that you created in DMM-DSM. You must enter the username.

•Description — Optional, brief description of the user account and its purpose.

•Password | Repeat — The password for the user account. You must enter a password, then reenter it.

•Administrator — The check box to select if this account belongs to an administrator. Otherwise, deselect the check box. When a user account belongs to an administrator, the corresponding user is granted full permissions to create, read, write, and delete every object type without limitation. If you deselect the check box, you must manually change the permissions for each user role and each object type that pertain to this user account. Because we recommend that you follow a best practice in which you create only a few users, the check box is selected by default each time that you add a user account.

•Role — The list of user role types. Each type of role is associated with some of the features in DMM-DSM. Select a role to see or change the corresponding permissions for the user whose account you are adding or editing. After you select a role, you can set the permissions to create, read, write, and delete objects that are relevant to whichever role you selected. Depending on the user role that you select, an object might be a registered DMP, a registered FTP server, a content category in your digital media library, an application that you configured, or the target device (DMP or FTP server) to receive a scheduled delivery.

–DMP Manager — A user with permissions to manage every DMP in your digital signage network, only the DMPs within particular DMP groups that you specify, or no DMPs whatsoever.

–Content Manager — A user with permissions to manage every content category in your digital signage media library, only the particular content categories that you specify, or none of the content categories.

–Application Manager —  A user with permissions to work with every application type, only the particular application types that you specify, or no applications of any kind.

–Publisher Manager — A user with permissions to schedule content deliveries to all of your registered DMPs and external (FTP) publishing servers, only the particular DMPs and FTP servers that you specify, or none of the registered DMPs or FTP servers.

The untitled table sorts user account permissions information into these rows:

•Objects — Contains the Create, Read, Write, and Delete buttons. To see or edit any one of these types of permissions as it applies to the specified user, you must first click the corresponding button. If you deselect both the All check box and the Selected check box in the column under a button, DMM-DSM automatically shows the words "No permissions" in red, to signify that the user does not have any permissions of that type in relation to the objects that are relevant to the role that you selected from the Role list.

•All — Contains the check box that you select to assign global permissions to the user, so that he or she can always {create | see | edit | delete} objects that pertain to whichever user role you selected from the Role list. Click the relevant button, then select the corresponding check box in the All row.

•Selected — Contains the check box that you select to assign limited permissions to the user, so that he or she can {create | see | edit | delete} only a subset of the objects that pertain to the user role that you selected from the Role list. Click the relevant button, select the corresponding check box in the Selected row, then select the subset where the user permissions should apply. (Depending on the object type, you might choose the subset by clicking its name in an object selector or clicking its name in a table; DMM-DSM automatically displays either an object selector or the a from which to select the subset.)

Allow a user to create content but not to publish it.

•From the Role list, select DMP Manager, then deselect every check box in the Create, Read, Write, and Delete columns.

•From the Role list, select Content Manager, then select the All check box in the Create, Read, Write, and Delete columns.

•From the Role list, select Application Manager, then select the Selected check box in the Create, Read, Write, and Delete columns. Next, do all of the following:

–Click Create, then — in the table that associates permissions with applications — select only these check boxes: Flash, Go to URL, Multicasts, Playlists, and Zoning.

–Click Read, then — in the table that associates permissions with applications — select only these check boxes: Flash, Go to URL, Multicasts, Playlists, and Zoning.

–Click Write, then — in the table that associates permissions with applications — select only these check boxes: Flash, Go to URL, Multicasts, Playlists, and Zoning.

–Click Delete, then — in the table that associates permissions with applications — select only these check boxes: Flash, Go to URL, Multicasts, Playlists, and Zoning.

•From the Role list, select Publisher Manager, then deselect every check box in the Create, Read, Write, and Delete columns.

Allow a user to administer one DMP (or all of the DMPs in one DMP group), but have no content-related permissions.

•From the Role list, select DMP Manager, then select the Selected check box in the Create, Read, Write, and Delete columns. Next, do all of the following:

–Click Create. Then, in the object selector, click a DMP or a DMP group to highlight it.

–Click Read. Then, in the object selector, click and highlight the same DMP or DMP group that you highlighted for Create permissions.

–Click Write. Then, in the object selector, click and highlight the same DMP or DMP group that you highlighted for Create permissions.

–Click Delete. Then, in the object selector, click and highlight the same DMP or DMP group that you highlighted for Create permissions.

•From the Role list, select Content Manager, then deselect every check box in the Create, Read, Write, and Delete columns.

•From the Role list, select Application Manager, then — in the table that associates permissions with applications — select only these check boxes: DMP Discovery, DMP Video/Audio Settings, System Tasks, Upgrade DMP.

•From the Role list, select Publisher Manager, then select the Selected check box in the Create, Read, Write, and Delete columns. Next, do all of the following:

–Click Create. Then, in the object selector, click and highlight the same DMP or DMP group that you highlighted for the DMP Manager role.

–Click Read. Then, in the object selector, click and highlight the same DMP or DMP group that you highlighted for the DMP Manager role.

–Click Write. Then, in the object selector, click and highlight the same DMP or DMP group that you highlighted for the DMP Manager role.

–Click Delete. Then, in the object selector, click and highlight the same DMP or DMP group that you highlighted for the DMP Manager role.

Allow a user to administer one DMP (or all of the DMPs in one DMP group), manage content for it, and publish content to it.

•From the Role list, select DMP Manager, then select the Selected check box in the Create, Read, Write, and Delete columns. Next, do all of the following:

–Click Create. Then, in the object selector, click a DMP or a DMP group to highlight it.

–Click Read. Then, in the object selector, click and highlight the same DMP or DMP group that you highlighted for Create permissions.

–Click Write. Then, in the object selector, click and highlight the same DMP or DMP group that you highlighted for Create permissions.

–Click Delete. Then, in the object selector, click and highlight the same DMP or DMP group that you highlighted for Create permissions.

•From the Role list, select Content Manager, then select the All check box in the Create, Read, Write, and Delete columns.

•From the Role list, select Application Manager, then — in the table that associates permissions with applications — select every check box.

•From the Role list, select Publisher Manager, then select the Selected check box in the Create, Read, Write, and Delete columns. Next, do all of the following:

–Click Create. Then, in the object selector, click and highlight the same DMP or DMP group that you highlighted for the DMP Manager role.

–Click Read. Then, in the object selector, click and highlight the same DMP or DMP group that you highlighted for the DMP Manager role.

–Click Write. Then, in the object selector, click and highlight the same DMP or DMP group that you highlighted for the DMP Manager role.

–Click Delete. Then, in the object selector, click and highlight the same DMP or DMP group that you highlighted for the DMP Manager role.

Allow a user to publish content to one DMP (or all of the DMPs in one DMP group), without any other permissions.

•From the Role list, select DMP Manager, then deselect every check box in the Create, Read, Write, and Delete columns.

•From the Role list, select Content Manager, then deselect every check box in the Create, Read, Write, and Delete columns.

•From the Role list, select Application Manager, then deselect every check box in the Create, Read, Write, and Delete columns.

•From the Role list, select Publisher Manager, then select the Selected check box in the Create, Read, Write, and Delete columns. Next, do all of the following:

–Click Create. Then, in the object selector, click a DMP or a DMP group to highlight it.

–Click Read. Then, in the object selector, click and highlight the same DMP or DMP group that you highlighted for Create permissions.

–Click Write. Then, in the object selector, click and highlight the same DMP or DMP group that you highlighted for Create permissions.

–Click Delete. Then, in the object selector, click and highlight the same DMP or DMP group that you highlighted for Create permissions.

SMTP Mail Server Configuration

Enter the required values for DMM-DSM to use an SMTP server. You must enter these values or you cannot send notification messages.

•Host — Enter the routable IP address or resolvable DNS hostname for the SMTP server.

•User — Enter the username for an email account on the SMTP server.

•Password — Enter the password for the email user account on the SMTP server.

Administrator

E-mail Address — Enter the administrator email address.

Notification Events

Make selections and enter required values to configure notification settings, then click Save.

•Notification Events — Select the event type.

–DMP Registered — Select before you will enter the sender and recipient addresses for messages that list all newly registered DMPs.

–DMP Up — Select before you will enter the sender and recipient addresses for messages that list all registered DMPs that restarted recently.

–DMP Down — Select before you will enter the sender and recipient addresses for messages that list all registered but inaccessible DMPs.

–DMP IP taken — Select before you will enter the sender and recipient addresses for messages that list all registered DMPs with IP address conflicts. An address conflict occurs when a DHCP server assigns to one registered DMP the exact dynamic IP address that some other registered DMP used previously. If the DMP that previously used the address is no longer in active use, you should delete the record of it in DMM-DSM; see Managing and Grouping DMPs. If the DMP that previously used the address is one that should still be active, confirm that it is still running and still connected to the network, then restart it and confirm that its DHCP server does not assign IP addresses with expiration dates.

•From Addresses — Enter the email address from which to send notification messages. You can enter a unique sender address for each of the notification event types.

•To Address — Enter the email address that should receive notification messages. You can enter a unique recipient address for each of the notification event types.

•From Address — The human-readable "name" that notification messages should associate with the From address that you entered. You can enter a distinct name for each of the different notification categories to assist you in filtering or recognizing important messages when you receive them.

•Text before List of the DMPs — Enter the text that notification messages should place before the list of DMPs.

•Text after List of the DMPs — Enter the text that notification messages should place after the list of DMPs.

CDM Address

The routable IP address or resolvable DNS hostname of the appliance or services module ("blade") that runs ACNS and Content Distribution Manager software.

Port

The TCP port for login access to CDM. The port number by default is 8443.

User

The username for login access to CDM.

Password

The password that corresponds to the CDM username that you entered.

External Server Publishing List

Add, select, edit, or delete external publishing (FTP) servers.

•Click a server to highlight it, so that you can edit or delete it. DMM-DSM automatically shows the Change External Publishing Server pane for the corresponding server, where you can edit its settings.

• ("Add New External Publishing Server") — Shows the Add New External Publishing Server pane, where you can define the settings to use a new server.

• ("Delete External Publishing Server") — Deletes the server that you highlighted.

{Add New | Change} External Publishing Server

You can add or edit an FTP server. Elements and options are as follows:

•Host — The routable IP address or resolvable DNS hostname of the external publishing (FTP) server. You must enter this value.

•Port — The port number to use. You can use any port number, but the default is 21.

•Server Type — FTP.

•Remote Directory — Enter the directory to use on the external publishing server. You can use a forward slash ( / ) as the first character, but we do not require it.

•HTTP Port — Enter the port number to use on the external publishing server. You can use any port number. If you do not enter a port number, the default is to use port 80.

•User Name — Enter the FTP username. It is acceptable to use the name anonymous.

•Password | Confirm Password — You must enter the FTP password, then reenter it.