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This chapter explains how you can use AAI to administer a Video Portal appliance and includes the following sections:
•Performing Routine Administrative Tasks
•Naming or Renaming Your Video Portal
•Naming or Renaming Your Video Portal
•Changing the Network Settings for an Appliance
To start AAI from the appliance login prompt, enter the username admin and password that you specified for the admin account when you completed the checklist of tasks in Chapter 2, "Setting Up and Configuring a Video Portal Appliance."
To see options or change selections in AAI, do any of the following:
•To highlight an option or to navigate through the list of options, press the Up/Down arrow keys.
•To select or deselect a highlighted option, press Spacebar.
•To save your changes to an option that you selected for editing and let your take effect, press Enter.
The following topics in this section tell you how to perform routine tasks:
•Viewing Appliance System Information
•Obtaining or Transferring a Copy of the System Log
•Changing the Appliance Administrator Password
•Patching or Updating Appliance Software
To see system information for the appliance, log in to AAI, select SHOW_INFO, and then press Enter.
You can back up an appliance by using AAI. This backup creates a file that includes only database and configuration information for the appliance; it does not contain media files.
Tip You can back up an appliance also by using DMS-Admin. This backup creates a file that includes database and configuration information for both the DMM and Video Portal appliances. For more information, see the User Guide for Cisco Digital Media System 5.0 on Cisco.com.
Step 1 Log in to AAI.
Step 2 Select APPLIANCE_Control, then press Enter.
Step 3 To back up DMM, select BACKUP_APPLIANCE, and press Enter.
Step 4 To back up to a USB drive, select USB, and press Enter.
You can save a copy of the appliance log file to a USB drive that you attach directly to your appliance, or you can transfer a copy of the log to any SFTP-enabled server.
Step 1 Log in to AAI.
Step 2 Select APPLIANCE_CONTROL, and then press Enter.
Step 3 Select GET_SYSLOG, press Enter, and then do one of the following:
•To transfer a copy of the log to an attached USB drive, select USB, and then press Enter.
•To transfer a copy of the log by SFTP to a reachable server:
a. Select SFTP, then press Enter.
b. Enter the SFTP server IP address or routable DNS name, and press Enter.
c. Enter the username that you use when you log in to the SFTP server, and press Enter.
d. Enter the password that you use when you log in to the SFTP server, and press Enter.
A system message in AAI tells you if the SFTP file transfer was successful.
You can change the appliance administrator password. The password that you enter must contain at least 6 characters.
Step 1 Log in to AAI.
Step 2 Select APPLIANCE_CONTROL, and press Enter.
Step 3 Select RESET_PASSWORD, and press Enter.
Step 4 Enter the new password, and press Enter.
Step 5 To confirm that you typed the password correctly, enter it again, and press Enter.
Note You must also enter the new password in the Web-based graphical user interface for DMM.
Step 6 Log in as an administrator to DMM; then, select Video Portal from the untitled list at the top far-right of the page.
Step 7 Select Setup > Deployment Locations, and scroll down to the bottom of the page.
Step 8 In the "Video Portal Metadata" area, enter the new password in the Login password text box.
Step 9 Click Save Deployment Locations.
You can install a software patch or a software update.
Step 1 Log in to AAI.
Step 2 Select APPLIANCE_CONTROL, and press Enter.
Step 3 Select SOFTWARE_UPDATE, and press Enter.
Step 4 Insert the CD-ROM, and press Enter.
You can restart an appliance.
Step 1 Log in to AAI.
Step 2 Select APPLIANCE_CONTROL, and press Enter.
Step 3 Select REBOOT, and press Enter twice.
You can shut down an appliance.
Step 1 Log in to AAI.
Step 2 Select APPLIANCE_CONTROL, and press Enter.
Step 3 Select SHUTDOWN, and press Enter twice.
You must specify a name for your video portal. You can change the name at any time.
Step 1 Log in to AAI.
Step 2 Select VP_CONTROL, and press Enter.
Step 3 Select INSTANCE NAME, and press Enter.
Step 4 Enter the name.
The name that you enter will be visible in the public HTTP URL that points to your Video Portal.
Step 5 When AAI shows you the name that you entered, press Enter.
Note•We recommend that you never change the static IP address that you assign to your Video Portal appliance.
•We recommend that you do not use DHCP to obtain the IP address for your 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 deployments.
•If you use your Video Portal appliance as one of your deployment locations — even though we strongly recommend that you never do — and if you used IP addresses instead of hostnames when you specified your deployment locations in DMM-VPM at Setup > Deployment Locations, any changes that you make now to the Video Portal appliance IP address will cause some of your entries in DMM-VPM to become invalid. You must reenter all such values manually, including the IP addresses that you specified for deployment locations, video parts, videos, and programs. Until you correct the invalidated IP address in every location where you entered it, the corresponding deployments, video parts, videos, and programs will not run.
•If your network uses a DNS server, you must reassociate the resolvable DNS hostname for your Video Portal appliance each time that you change its IP address.
You can change network settings for an appliance.
Step 1 Log in to AAI.
Step 2 Select NETWORK_SETTINGS, and press Enter.
Step 3 Select the type of network setting to change. The options are:
•HOST_NAME—To change the appliance hostname, select this option.
•TCP_IP—To change how the appliance obtains its IP address (DHCP or static), select this option. We recommend that you do not select DHCP.
•DNS—To change the primary or secondary DNS server for the appliance, select this option.
•AUTO_NEGOTIATION—To change NIC speed and duplex settings for the appliance, including whether the speed and duplex should be autonegotiated, select this option.
•NETWORK_TOOLS—To troubleshoot the network, select this option.
Step 4 Press Enter.
Step 5 Enter or select the new settings, and select the options to confirm each individual change.
Step 6 Confirm the combination of all the network settings that you changed:
•If everything is correct, press Enter.
•If anything is incorrect, select No, and press Enter to enter different settings.
You can configure the date and time settings for an appliance.
Step 1 Log in to AAI.
Step 2 Select DATE_TIME_SETTINGS, then press Enter.
Step 3 Select the type of setting to change. The options are:
•TIME_ZONE — To change the appliance time zone, or to enable or disable the appliance system clock to use UTC, select this option.
•DATE — To change the year, month, or date for the appliance, select this option.
•TIME — To change the hour, minute, or second for the appliance, select this option.
•NTP — To enable or disable the appliance to use an NTP server, or to change which NTP server the appliance uses, select this option.
•SHOW_TIME — To see what time setting is in effect on this appliance, select this option.
Step 4 Press Enter.
Step 5 Enter or select the new date and time settings, and select the options to confirm each individual change.
Step 6 Confirm the combination of all the date and time settings that you changed:
•If everything is correct, press Enter.
•If anything is incorrect, select No, and press Enter to enter different settings.