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Revised: May 13, 2015
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Note This material pertains to multiple releases of Cisco DMS.
Cisco Digital Signs and Cisco Cast share a dashboard that shows various gauges. This shared dashboard summarizes and centralizes important features to monitor DMPs, schedules, assets, and settings for content delivery. Gauge data is not updated in real time; you must refresh your browser to refresh the data.
When problems of any kind interfere with the data-collection processes that populate these gauges, they show question marks in addition to the best data that is available.
The Media and Schedules gauge represents differing types of data on its left and right sides.
The left side of the Media and Schedules gauge shows a read-only version of the deployment schedule that Cisco Digital Signs and Cisco Cast share. You can browse through the schedule timeline here and increase or decrease the magnification level for the range of hours that the gauge shows without your ever scrolling.
Figure 11-1 The Left Side of the Media and Schedules Gauge
This gauge describes only the midnight-to-midnight, 24-hour schedule for today. You can center it on the current hour and you can filter it to show only the events that are scheduled for a particular DMP group.
The Digital Media Players gauge shows a colored bar chart to summarize the health of registered DMPs in your network and counts the number of configured DMP groups.
Figure 11-2 The Digital Media Players Gauge
Tip DMM might report temporarily that a newly added DMP is unreachable. Most commonly, this occurs before the first polling session. The interval between DMP polling cycles is 5 minutes. In this case, wait a few minutes, and then check again.
Note Configure your DHCP servers to expire leased IP addresses for DMPs only when DMPs are restarted. A registered DMP might become unavailable for centralized management if it receives a new dynamic IP address from the DHCP server at its deployment site. In this case, you should restart the DMP or edit the IP address record that DMM maintains for the DMP.
The Cast gauge shows whether Cisco Cast is configured and tells you whether the most recent synchronization succeeded with your preferred EPG provider.
The Settings gauge summarizes the most basic attributes of configured settings for your DMM appliance and your content delivery network.
Figure 11-4 The Settings Gauge
Step 1 Choose Digital Signs > Dashboard.
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Choose Cast > Dashboard.
Step 2 Work with gauges, as needed.
Tip • All gauges are made wide that load on the left side.
• All gauges are made narrow that load on the right side.
Step 3 Stop. You have completed this procedure.
Step 2 Do any of the following.
– The far left position “zooms out” to show schedule magnification in 6-hour increments.
– The far right position “zooms in” to show schedule magnification in 5-minute increments.
Step 3 Stop. You have completed this procedure.
Step 2 Do any of the following.
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Step 3 (Optional) Would you like to populate your media library with assets or URLs? If so, click Add Asset.
Step 4 Stop. You have completed this procedure.
Step 2 (Optional) Would you like to learn more? If so, click View All DMPs and DMP Groups.
Step 3 Stop. You have completed this procedure.
Step 2 Click Manage Cast to learn more.
Step 3 Stop. You have completed this procedure.
Step 2 Click Manage Settings to learn more.
Step 3 Stop. You have completed this procedure.
The right side of the Media and Schedules gauge counts and categorizes assets of various types that are saved in your media library, and also counts the playlists and presentations that are saved. In addition, it shows 10 categorized shortcuts.