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Quick Start Guide for
Cisco Digital Media System 4.0
Revised: April 3, 2008
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Contents
Information in this guide is organized into these top-level sections:
• Introduction, page 1
Setting Up and Configuring Cisco Video Portal 4.0, page 2
Setting Up and Configuring Cisco Digital Media Manager 4.0, page 4
Related Documentation, page 10
Obtaining Documentation, Obtaining Support, and Security Guidelines, page 11
Introduction
This guide describes how to install, back up, and reco
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Setting Up and Configuring Cisco Video Portal 4.0 Setting Up and Configuring Cisco Video Portal 4.0 If you purchased a Cisco Video Portal 4.0 appliance, use the checklist in this section to track your progress while you complete the required tasks to set up and configure the hardware and software. Before You Begin Verify that at least one computer on your network is configured for access to other networked devices through TCP ports 80 and 8080. Enable popup windows in your browser if
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Setting Up and Configuring Cisco Video Portal 4.0 Task Caution We recommend that you do not use DHCP to obtain an IP address for your Video Portal appliance, due to the sometimes unpredictable expiration of IP addresses in DHCP systems and the administrative overhead of reconfiguring other devices to reestablish disrupted connections (for depoloyments or any other purpose). We further recommend that you do not change the static IP address that you assign to the appliance. 4. Enter IP addr
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Setting Up and Configuring Cisco Digital Media Manager 4.0 Task Caution Write down the selections that you make when you complete this task. You must make exactly the same selections later, when you configure the “supported media formats” for your DMM appliance in Task 17. If your selections differ in these two related tasks, your Video Portal might not work correctly. 10. Select the supported filetypes and formats for video encoding. a. Select the media formats that your Video Portal wil
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Setting Up and Configuring Cisco Digital Media Manager 4.0 Learn if your network uses dynamic (DHCP) or static IP addresses, and — if your network uses static IP addresses: – Learn what IP address to assign to the DMM appliance. – Learn what subnet mask (netmask) to use. – Learn what IP addresses are assigned to the default network gateway, the primary DNS server, and the secondary DNS server. Task 1. Set up the DMM appliance hardware. a. Unpack the equipment from its container and verif
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Setting Up and Configuring Cisco Digital Media Manager 4.0 Task 6. Configure settings for the DMM appliance network interface card (NIC). Do one of the following: If the NIC for your DMM appliance should autonegotiate the fastest possible transmission mode when it is connected to another device, select Yes. If the NIC should not autonegotiate, select No, select the NIC speed, select OK, select the duplex method, select OK, then select Yes. 7. Select the time zone settings. a. Use the U
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Setting Up and Configuring Cisco Digital Media Manager 4.0 Task 12. Obtain a DMM software license key and use it to activate the DMM modules that you purchased. a. At the login prompt, use the admin username and the password that you specified in Task 10 to log in to the Appliance Administration Interface (AAI). In the displayed menu, the SHOW_INFO option is highlighted by default. b. Press Enter, then write down: The IP address for your DMM server appliance. The serial number for your
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Setting Up and Configuring Cisco Digital Media Manager 4.0 Task 15. Verify that the Video Portal module configuration values are correct. Click Launching the Cisco Video Portal. The Video Portal plugin detector page appears briefly, then the Video Portal appears. 16. Configure the values for system variables on your DMM appliance. a. Log in with the superuser account password that you created. b. Click the Setup tab, then enter all the following values: Application Administrator Contact
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Setting Up and Configuring Cisco Digital Media Manager 4.0 Task 17. Configure values for your Video Portal. a. Enter all the following values: Video Portal Web Server Base — The top-level HTTP URL of the server on which your audience can find your Video Portal. The URL to the live video portal—The HTTP URL that points directly to your public Video Portal. Default Audio Only Image—The SWF or non-progressive JPEG image to show as the thumbnail for every audio file. You must specify a fi
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Related Documentation Task 19. Discover the DMPs in your network. If you purchased a DMM-DSM license to centrally manage multiple Cisco Digital Media Player 4300G (DMP) devices, DMM can autodiscover your DMPs and organize them into groups for simplified and remote management of your DMPs anywhere globally. a. Select Digital Signage Module from the the untitled list at the top far-right of any page. b. To log in to DMM-DSM for the first time, enter the username admin and the password defaul
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Obtaining Documentation, Obtaining Support, and Security Guidelines Obtaining Documentation, Obtaining Support, and Security Guidelines For information on obtaining documentation, obtaining support, providing documentation feedback, security guidelines, and also recommended aliases and general Cisco documents, see the monthly What’s New in Cisco Product Documentation, which also lists all new and revised Cisco technical documentation, at: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/general/whatsnew/
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Obtaining Documentation, Obtaining Support, and Security Guidelines Quick Start Guide for Cisco Digital Media System 4.0 12 OL-12463-01
