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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 cting to a DMP Displ ay 5 Conne cting to an AC Soc k et 6 Chec king the LEDs 7 Logging in to DMPDM and Changing its P asswords 8 Configuring Video Ou[...]

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    2 Revised: July 10, 2008 78-18681-02 Contains Macromedia® Flash™ technology by Adobe Systems , Inc. Copyright 1995-2003 Adobe Systems, Inc. All Rights reserved. Macromed ia, Flash, Macromedia Flash, and Macromedia Flash Lite are trademarks or registere d trademarks of Adobe Systems, Inc. in th e United States and other countries. Note For inform[...]

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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, addressable network device that delivers digital signage content and enterprise TV content to a DMP display , which is any directly attached television sc[...]

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    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.html User documentation for Cisco DMS products http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/p s6681/pr[...]

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    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. • One DMP 4305G. • T wo signal cables: – HDMI – Composite/RCA • One A[...]

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    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. Max. Min. Max. Operating — long-term or short-term 41°F 104°F 5°C 40°C N[...]

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    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 have a DHCP server and you must configure your DMP to use a static IP address, complete th e “Preconfiguring Y our DMP T o Run Without a Local DHCP[...]

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    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. Digital signage uses static images more often than i t uses ful[...]

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    9 – MultiSync® LCD4010 – MultiSync® LCD4020 • 46" — MultiSync® LCD4610 • 57" — MultiSync® LCD5710 The maximum supported length for a video cable is: • 10 feet — Composite/RCA a nd S-V ideo • 16 feet — HDMI T o attach a digital di splay to your DMP , we recommend that you use the provided HDMI cable for video a nd a[...]

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    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 . • If you will connect y our DMP to one of th e recommended NEC display models that does not have an HDMI interface, do all[...]

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    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 . Step 2 Connect the other end of [...]

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    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 . Step 2 Connect the DC barrel connector to the 5V DC power supply on the DMP chassis. Step 3 Connect to an AC electrical outlet that y ou know is grounded, and that uses the correct voltag[...]

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    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. The LEDs do not blink unless they are exposed to infrared sign[...]

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    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 . Next, select Administrati on > Save Configuration , then cli[...]

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    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 . Caution Security in your network might be compromised unless you change the factory-defa ult passwords in DMPDM for both of these: • The DMP W[...]

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    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 .) Alternatively , if you have many DMPs and will manage them centrally , you can use th e fully licensed DMM-DSM softw are on your DMM appliance to change both of th ese passwords glo[...]

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    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 . Enter your new password in the Password field, enter it again in the Repeat Pass[...]

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    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 4.1. x should select Schedules > Immediate Deployment . ) – Se[...]

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    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. Step 5 T o change the DMP Serv ice Account password on one DMP by using DMPDM, select Administration > DMP S[...]

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    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 4.1. x should select Schedules > Immediate Deployment . ) – Se[...]

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    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 . Othe[...]

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    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. This definition is sometimes called the left-to-right additive color model. Step 4 ( Optional ) Move any or al l of the sliders to compensate for DMP display deficiencies in video (b[...]

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    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 . Caution T o stop untrusted DMM appliances from being able to seize control of your DMPs, you must configure your network firewall to restrict which devices you will permit to sen[...]

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    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 . d. T o confirm your selections and to implement[...]

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    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 . b. Enter the required values: – Servlet Server Address — If you have not alrea[...]

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    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. 10 Learning About the Remote Control for DMPs The remote control features r[...]

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    27 11 Obtaining Documentation, Obtaining Support, and Security Guidelines For information on obtaining documentation, obtaining support, providing documentation feedback, security guidelines, and also recommended aliases and g eneral Cisco documents, see the monthly What’ s New in Cisco Product Documentation , which also lists all n ew and revise[...]

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    Americas Headquarters Cisco S ystems, Inc. San Jose, CA Asia Pacific Headquarters Cisco Systems (USA) Pte. Ltd. Singapore Europe Headquarte rs Cisco Syste ms International BV Amsterdam, The Netherlands Cisco has mo re than 200 offices worldw ide. Addresses, phone nu mbers, and fax numbers are listed on th e Cisco W ebsite at www .cisc o.com/go/offi[...]