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Q UICK S TART Quick Start Guide for Cisco Digital Me dia Player 4305G 1 Chec king the P ac k age Contents 2 Finding a Suitable Location to S et Up Y our DMP 3 P articipating in a DHCP Ne twork 4 Conne.
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3 Glossary Cisco Digital Media System (Cisco DMS) is a family of products and technologies, including the ones tha t this guide describes. A Digital Media Pla yer (DMP) is a compact, solid state, addr.
4 Learn More T o learn more about DMS products, related technologies, and Cisco in general: Description Go T o DMS overview http://www.cisco.com/go/dms Release notes for Cisco DMS products http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ ps6681/prod_release_notes_list.
5 1 Checking the Package Contents The product package for one DMP 4305G should contain all of the following: • A proof of purchase certificate that contains important legal information, which you should keep. • This quick start guide and other product documentation.
6 240V . T o understand the supported lengths for different video cable types, see the “Connecting to a DMP Display” section on page 8 . Environmental Tolerance Ranges The DMP 4305G is intended for indoor use. T emper ature 1 US Customary Unit Modern Metric Unit Min.
7 3 Participating in a DHCP Network The factory default for a DMP 4305G is to obtain its IP a ddress automatically from a DHCP server . If you will deploy your DMP at a physical location that does not.
8 Step 2 Plug the other end of the Ethernet cable into a network hub, network switch, or router that participates in a DHCP network. 4 Connecting to a DMP Display W e recommend that you use a digital display , not a nalog. For the type of digital display , we recommend LCD, not plasma.
9 – MultiSync® LCD4010 – MultiSync® LCD4020 • 46" — MultiSync® LCD4610 • 57" — MultiSync® LCD5710 The maximum supported length for a video cable is: • 10 feet — Composite.
10 Step 1 On the back of your DMP cha ssis, do one of the following: • If you will connect your DMP to a digital display that has an HDMI interface, plug the male end o f the HDMI cable into the HDMI interface on your DMP .
11 • If you will connect your DMP to an analog display , do all of the following: – Plug the yellow jack on the RCA cable into the CVBS interface on your DMP . – Plug the red jack on the RCA cable into the AUDIO/RI GHT interface on your DMP . – Plug the white jack into the AUDIO/LEF T interface on your DMP .
12 Step 1 Assemble the DMP power cord: a. Identify the correct plug type for your region (U.S., E.U., U.K., or Australia). b. Snap that plug into the AC adapter .
13 The LEDs tell you if your DMP has power and if it has obtained an IP address. • A solid green LED indicates that a p ower source is available. • A solid red LED indicates tha t your DMP is trying to obtain an IP address. After your DMP has an IP address, it turns off the red LED.
14 Ti p T o reconfigure this splash screen in the future to pers ist for less than or more than the factory-default duration of 30 seconds, select Settings > Browser , enter a new duration in milliseconds in the Splash Screen Display T ime (in milliseconds) field, then click Apply .
15 Step 2 Point your browser to the IP address tha t you wrote down. Step 3 At the login prompt for DMPDM, to log in as the “DMP W eb Account” user , enter the username admin and the password default .
16 DMP Service Account is a us er accoun t with F TP login privileges. (The DMP Service Acc ount account is available only when the F T P service is enabled on a DMP .
17 T o understand URI encodi ng and its recommended syntax for submitting query strings, see RFC 1630 at http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1630 . Step 4 T o change the D MP W eb Account password on one DMP by using DMPDM, select Administration > DMP We b A c c o u n t .
18 d. T o save the task so that it becomes available for your use, click Submit . e. T o send the password changing instruction simultaneously to multiple DMPs in your digital signage network, do the following: – Select Schedules > Play Now . ( Alternatively , users of DMM-DSM 4.
19 made to credentials will prevent your trusted DMM appliance temporarily from communicating with your DMPs. T o resto re proper communication, you must now repeat Step 3 in the “Setting Up Centralized Management” section on page 23.
20 d. T o save the task so that it becomes available for your use, click Submit . e. T o send the password changing instruction simultaneously to multiple DMPs in your digital signage network, do the following: – Select Schedules > Play Now . ( Alternatively , users of DMM-DSM 4.
21 8 Configuring Video Output Step 1 In the Settings area, click DM P Display Attributes . The display autodetection feature is enab led by default. If you are sa tisfied with the selections and entries that DMPDM made for you, you are done with this section and you can go now to the “Setting Up Centralized Management” section on page 23 .
22 Step 3 If you selected RGB as the color space, select an option from the Color Component Order list to define the order in which to store red, green, and blue data.
23 9 Setting Up Centralized Management If your DMP will be managed centrally as part of a digital signage network, you must configure DMPDM a nd DMM-DSM to work together .
24 c. In the DMM Appliance IP Address field, enter the routable IP address or DN S-resolvable hostname of the trustworthy DMM appliance. The DMM Appliance IP Address field might already be populated with th e correct IP address for your DMM appliance if you used DM M-DSM to autodiscover your new DMP .
25 T o learn how to ma ke these credentials identical, see the “Logging in to DMPDM and Changing its Passwords” section on page 13 . Step 3 Specify in DMM-DSM th e correct user credentials for your centrally managed DMPs. a. Select Settings > Server Settings .
26 identical to the new credentials for yo ur DMPs. Otherwise, if you do not update this information, DMM-DSM will use obsolete credentials when it tries to communicate with your DMPs and, when communication fails, will consider your DMPs to be unreachable and unmanageable.
27 11 Obtaining Documentation, Obtaining Support, and Security Guidelines For information on obtaining documentation, obtaining support, providing documentation feedback, security guidelines, and also.
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