Pair the Cisco DMS Appliances

Revised: November 4, 2011

 

This chapter explains how you can use Appliance Administrative Interface (AAI) to pair a Cisco Show and Share appliance with a Cisco Digital Media Manager (DMM) appliance. You must pair your Cisco DMM appliance and your Cisco Show and Share appliance after initial configuration, after performing a software recovery on one or both appliances, or after changing the hostname of one or both appliances.

This chapter contains the following sections:

Avoid Pairing Failures

To avoid pairing failures:

Pair Your Appliances

Procedure


Step 1 From the appliance that runs Cisco Show and Share:

a. Log in as admin to the Appliance Administration Interface (AAI).

b. Choose APPLIANCE_CONTROL > PAIR APPLIANCE .

c. Choose DMM .


Warning Do not choose any other option than DMM.


d. Enter the fully-qualified domain name (FQDN) for your Cisco DMM appliance.

This is the DNS name. Do not enter an IP address.

e. Press Enter .

Your Cisco Show and Share appliance receives and successfully imports a digital certificate from your Cisco DMM appliance.

Step 2 From the appliance that runs Cisco Digital Media Manager:

a. Log in as admin to the Appliance Administration Interface (AAI).

b. Choose APPLIANCE_CONTROL > PAIR APPLIANCE .

c. Choose SHOW_AND_SHARE .


Warning Do not choose any other option than SHOW_AND_SHARE.


d. Enter the fully-qualified domain name (FQDN) for your Cisco Show and Share appliance.

This is the DNS name. Do not enter an IP address.

e. Press Enter .

Your Cisco DMM appliance receives and successfully imports a digital certificate from your Cisco Show and Share appliance.