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Revised: May 13, 2015
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Note This material pertains to multiple releases of Cisco DMS.
You can audit which assets your DMPs play... and where... and when... and for how long — across any supported range of dates that you specify.
Proof of play reports are available per DMP, per DMP group, and per insertion. We use a dedicated proof of play service to collect these records and generate these reports.
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Cisco Digital Signs includes methods to identify and assemble an affinity group from any combination of presentations, playlists, and assets. We call this affinity group package an insertion.
Mingled elements within an insertion all share one clear and unifying purpose. For example, the elements of your first insertion might all advertise a community celebration, even though they use various languages or differ in other, key ways. However, you recognize for your own purposes that at least one significant factor (the community celebration, in this example) unites them as an affinity group.
The benefit of insertions is that you can audit and verify the scope of playback — individually and collectively — for all elements that support one goal, initiative, policy, campaign, or event. On a DMP-by-DMP basis, you can discover and demonstrate exactly which assets:
Note ● Proof of play features in Cisco Digital Signs ignore the playback of assets that Cisco developed — including all samples and templates that you receive with DMM.
1. Add assets to your media library.
2. Develop, schedule, and publish presentations and playlists.
Step 1 Do one of the following.
Step 2 Stop. You have completed this procedure.
Step 2 Choose Proof of Play > Configuration.
Step 3 Enter the fully qualified, DNS-resolvable DMM appliance domain name in the DMM FQDN field.
Step 5 Use fields in the Authentication area to enter the superuser name and password for your DMM appliance.
Step 6 Define settings in the Data Size/Rotation Rules area.
Step 7 Choose an option in the Archiving Rules area to set how many days of playback data to accumulate before archiving it.
Step 9 Stop. You have completed this procedure.
Step 1 Choose Digital Signage > Insertions, and then click Manage Requestors.
The Manage Requestors dialog box opens.
Step 2 Click Add New Requestors.
The Add New Requestor dialog box opens.
Step 3 Enter at least a name but also, optionally, a description.
Step 5 Stop. You have completed this procedure.
Step 1 Choose Digital Signage > Insertions, and then click Create Insertion.
The Create New Insertion dialog box opens.
Step 2 Enter a name for this insertion.
Step 3 Associate a requestor with this insertion.
Step 4 Choose when this insertion should become active, and then choose when it should stop.
The Select Resources dialog box opens.
Step 6 Use check boxes in the table to mark assets that you might use.
Step 7 Click OK to populate your insertion with the assets that you marked.
Step 8 Stop. You have completed this procedure.
Step 1 Choose Proof of Play > Reports.
Step 2 Choose reporting criteria.
– A summary report counts successes and failures.
– A detailed report counts either successes or failures.
Step 4 Stop. You have completed this procedure.
Step 1 Choose a format from the Export list.
Step 2 Stop. You have completed this procedure.
Step 1 Click View previous reports.
Step 2 Stop. You have completed this procedure.
Step 1 Choose Proof of Play > Dashboard.
Step 2 Stop. You have completed this procedure.
You can view, configure, and export additional reports for the presentations and tasks that you have deployed in your digital signage network.
Step 1 Choose Schedules > Reports.
Step 2 Check the check boxes for the relevant DMP groups.
Step 3 Enter date range values in the From field and the To field.
Step 4 From the Report Type list, select the report type.
Step 6 Stop. You have completed this procedure.
Q. What might prevent proof-of-play features from working at all?
The fully qualified domain name (FQDN) for your DMM appliance must not exceed 30 characters.
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NOT VALID for Proof of Play
Q. How do insertions differ from presentations and playlists?
They are fundamentally different.
Q. Are insertions required in proof of play?
No. Insertions are just one of three supported report types. You can also obtain proof of play reports per DMP or per DMP group.
Q. Can I associate one asset with multiple insertions?
Q. What triggers universal proof of play auditing for an asset?
There are two scenarios in which we validate each instance of playback for an asset.
Q. What triggers conditional proof of play auditing for an asset?
We might validate some instances of playback but not others. We cannot audit playback consistently for an asset whose instances of playback occur sometimes outside any insertion.
Q. What prevents proof of play auditing for an asset?
We cannot validate instances of playback for an asset whose every instance of playback occurs outside any insertion.
The log file location for proof of play features is: /var/apache-tomcat/proofofplay-core.log