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Revised: May 4, 2015
OL-15762-05
Warning Severe conditions that disrupt equipment during and after an emergency might prevent messages from playing on your digital signs.
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When emergencies of any kind affect sites where you have digital signs, you can use them to alert your viewers, warn them about dangers that might affect them, and direct them to safety. Or you can provide other kinds of information to them as you see fit. Until you stop playing emergency messages, they override all events that were scheduled to run automatically.
It is important to remember that emergency message insertions in your schedule will override only the events that are scheduled to run automatically. Furthermore, such insertions will override these events on only the DMPs that the emergency message insertion affected. All other DMPs in your network will abide by their schedule, without disruption.
Note Consider very carefully which DMM users should have permission to work with your Channels and manage your DMP groups. Although all of the future scheduling features are suspended (for affected DMPs only) while an emergency is in progress, none of the Run Task features or other DMP Manager features are suspended. Therefore, it is possible for a careless user or malicious user with sufficient permissions to start another event manually on the DMPs where an emergency message should play.
Tip Does your organization prefer that one or more screen zones show assets that are centrally editable in real time? If so, you can stage the editable assets remotely on one of your external deployment servers instead of staging them locally on your DMPs. Then, the people in your organization who are entrusted to edit these assets can do so in real time.
However, our factory-default security policy on DMPs will prevent this unless you explicitly allow it in DMPDM. To allow it, you must log in to DMPDM 5.4 and disable its Web Security option.
After an emergency has stopped and normal scheduling has resumed on a DMP group and its children, any playlist or presentation that was scheduled for playback at that time will start from the beginning.
Step 1 Click Network and Endpoints on the Home page.
Step 2 Choose Digital Media Players > Advanced Tasks.
Step 3 Click File Transfer to DMP or Server in the Application Types list.
Step 4 Click Add New Application above the Applications table.
Step 5 Define behaviors for, and save, the file transfer task.
a. Enter a specific name, such as “Fire” or “Flash Flood,” for the type of emergency.
You might want to use a less specific name, such as “Emergencies,” if this task will transfer the assets for multiple presentations or playlists, or if your organization uses one playlist or presentation for emergencies of all kinds.
b. Choose FTP or HTTP from the DMP Publishing Protocol list.
c. Check the Emergency/Alarm check box.
Step 6 Click the presentation or playlist (in the Available Applications list) whose assets should be transferred.
Step 7 Click
Select Applications.
AND
(Optional) Repeat as needed to transfer the assets for multiple playlists and presentations.
The task is now saved and available for deployments.
Note Even though you created and saved a file transfer task, you have not used it yet. Your DMPs will not have local copies of the emergency assets until after you run this task successfully.
Step 9 Provision the emergency assets to your DMPs.
Step 10 Stop. You have completed this procedure.
Step 1 Click Network and Endpoints on the Home page.
Step 3 Click the group (in the DMP Groups list) that should receive these assets.
The Run Task dialog box opens.
Step 5 Click to highlight the best system tasks for the type of emergency.
The Run Task dialog box closes and a message tells you that your selected task was deployed.
Step 7 Stop. You have completed this procedure.
Step 1 Click Network and Endpoints on the Home page.
Step 4 From the Select Emergency list, choose the playlist or presentation that your DMPs should play during the type of emergency that is now in progress.
Entries that you see in the Select Emergency list are derived from file transfer tasks that you saved after checking the Emergency/Alarm check box.
Note You cannot add the “ALARM” prefix manually to the name of a (Go to) URL task to make the task appear in the Select Emergency list. Nor can you delete the “ALARM” prefix manually from the name of a (Go to) URL task to exclude the task from the Select Emergency list.
Step 5 Click to select at least one group in the Select DMP Group tree.
Tip You can select more than one group at a time. Depending on which operating system you use, hold down either the Control key (sometimes labled “Ctrl”) or the Command key (sometimes labeled “”) while you click any subsequent groups after the first.
When you choose a group that has child groups, the child groups and their member DMPs are also selected automatically.
Step 7 Do one of the following.
Warning Severe conditions that disrupt equipment during and after an emergency might prevent messages from playing on your digital signs.
Tip You can submit an emergency to a DMP group while it is showing a playlist or presentation that describes some other emergency. There is no need to explicitly stop playback of the current emergency message before you start another one.
Step 8 Stop. You have completed this procedure.
Step 1 Click Network and Endpoints on the Home page.
Step 4 Expand the Select DMP Group tree. Then, click a DMP group that is colored red.
When you choose a DMP group that has child groups, the child groups and their member DMPs are also selected automatically.
Step 6 Do one of the following.
Step 7 Stop. You have completed this procedure.