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Revised: May 4, 2015
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We prepared this material with specific expectations of you. |
Features of the DMP Manager page can help you to:
When you choose options anywhere on the DMP Manager page, it is updated automatically to show the options and features that are relevant to your selection.
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DMP Group Management Tasks |
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Browse the group hierarchy and collapse or expand its levels |
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We recommend that you create DMP groups to organize your DMPs according to characteristics that they have in common, such as where or how you will use them, according to whatever logic works best for you. For example, the logical basis for your DMP groups might be geographic or corporate.
One DMP group can contain another. Each choice that you make for centralized management propagates 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 we do not prevent you from doing this.
Note DMM uses TCP port 7777 to communicate with DMPs. This port is open on DMPs. You cannot close it.
When you create or edit a DMP group, the least that you must do is name the group. In addition, you can populate the group automatically with all of the DMPs in any CIDR address range that you specify, or you can manually add DMPs to a group.
Tip You can save a named group for use in the future, even if you have not yet assigned any DMPs to it.
Step 1 Click Network and Endpoints.
Step 2 Choose Digital Media Players > DMP Manager.
Step 3 Do either of the following.
Step 4 Enter a name and a description for the group.
Step 5 Define the network ranges from which to autoregister DMPs that should join this DMP group.
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You can skip this step if you will not autoregister DMPs now.
Tip DMM runs each autodiscovery job one time. It does not look continually in the specified network range for DMPs that you might add in the future. When you plan to add DMPs to your network continually, you can schedule an autodiscovery event to recur as often as necessary.
Step 6 Click OK to save your work.
Step 7 Stop. You have completed this procedure.
Step 1 Click Network and Endpoints.
Step 2 Choose Digital Media Players > DMP Manager.
Step 3 Navigate in the DMP Groups tree, expanding levels until you find the group.
Step 4 Click the group name in the tree.
Step 5 Choose More Actions > Delete Group.
Step 6 Click OK to delete the group.
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Click Cancel to stop this deletion.
Step 7 Stop. You have completed this procedure.
Step 1 Click Network and Endpoints.
Step 2 Choose Digital Media Players > DMP Manager.
Step 3 Navigate in the DMP Groups tree, expanding levels until you find a group that already includes the DMP.
Step 4 Click to highlight this group in the tree.
The DMP List table is refreshed. It now describes DMPs in your highlighted group.
Step 5 Click the DMP and drag it to a different group in the DMP Groups tree.
Step 6 Stop. You have completed this procedure.
Step 1 Click Network and Endpoints.
Step 2 Choose Digital Media Players > DMP Manager.
Step 3 Navigate in the object selector tree, expanding its levels until you find a DMP group that should no longer include a DMP.
Step 4 Click to highlight this group in the tree.
The DMP List table is refreshed. It now describes DMPs in your highlighted group.
Step 5 Click Delete in the row whose DMP should leave a group.
Step 6 Choose Remove DMP from Group.
Step 8 Stop. You have completed this procedure.
Step 1 Click Network and Endpoints.
Step 2 Choose Digital Media Players > DMP Manager.
Step 3 Click the entry in the object selector tree for a DMP group whose list of member DMPs you will filter.
The DMP List table straddles multiple pages when there are more DMPs than there are rows per page.
Step 4 Choose one option from the Filter list, above the DMP List table:
Step 5 (Optional) Would you like to specify how many rows of data the table should load per page? If so, choose the number of rows from the list below the table.
Step 6 (Optional) Does the table straddle multiple pages? If so, use pagination controls above the table to move between pages.
Step 8 Stop. You have completed this procedure.
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These elements load when you click Create Group or Edit Group under the DMP Groups tree. |
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This element loads below the DMP Groups object selector. It is an option in the More Actions list. |
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This element loads below the DMP List table. It is an option in the More Actions list. |
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Deletes the association between at least one DMP and at least one group. |
Q. How many DMPs can I centrally manage from one DMM appliance?
Approximately 4,000. However, it is not possible to pinpoint an exact count that is correct for every organization. The ways that you use your DMPs affect their cumulative load on a DMM appliance.