The documentation set for this product strives to use bias-free language. For the purposes of this documentation set, bias-free is defined as language that does not imply discrimination based on age, disability, gender, racial identity, ethnic identity, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, and intersectionality. Exceptions may be present in the documentation due to language that is hardcoded in the user interfaces of the product software, language used based on RFP documentation, or language that is used by a referenced third-party product. Learn more about how Cisco is using Inclusive Language.
Timesaver Go to terms that start with... [ numerals | A | C | D | E | L | M | P | S | T | W ].
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This value describes the physical site — including the municipality, street address, floor designation, and so on — where a switch and its attached nodes are deployed. additional-location-information This value describes any additional details to inject into the encapsulated CDP message. As this is a data injection, it depends wholly on the presence of a defined civic-location-id value. Absent that value, there is no way for this value to reach any endpoint. Later, when you plug a Medianet-ready DMP into a properly configured switch, the Location Services feature of MSI populates the Location URL field automatically in DMPDM. Note CDP and LLDP constrain how much location information you can store on a Medianet-enabled switch. Make sure that this information never exceeds 255 bytes. Note A DMP 4400G cannot receive or use Location Services information over Wi-Fi. Its connection type to your Medianet-enabled switch must be Ethernet. |
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$ echo 'ibase=10;obase=16;' | bc And so, in keeping with the previous conversion example, shown in red.... • 128 becomes x80 • 107 becomes x6b • 224 becomes xe0 • 188 becomes xbc Note For 32-bit Windows Server, the DLL filename is DHCPSDDLLx86.DLL. \HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\DHCPServer\Paramters
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CalloutEnabled REG_DWORD 1• CalloutDlls REG_MULTI_SZ < full_path_to_DLL > Note See the Medianet documentation on Cisco.com for detailed instructions. |
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Wi-Fi Protected Access. WPA is a standards-based, interoperable security enhancement that strongly increases the level of data protection and access control for existing and future wireless LAN systems. It is derived from and will be forward-compatible with the upcoming IEEE 802.11i standard. WPA leverages TKIP for data protection and 802.1X for authenticated key management. |
Timesaver Does your wireless network use WPA instead of WEP? If so, you can ignore this topic.
Many 802.11 access points (wireless routers) accept only a hexadecimal passphrase for WEP-64 and WEP-128. And yet, DMPs accept only an ASCII passphrase for WEP. For this reason, it might be necessary at times to translate your WEP passphrase from ASCII to hexadecimal.
Note Many third-party converters are available. We do not offer any Cisco converter for this purpose.
The typical WEP process is as follows.
1. Pick an ASCII passphrase. For example, PassphraseWEP128.
2. Convert your string of ASCII characters to the hexadecimal key or keys for your network.
3. Configure your DMP to use the ASCII from which you derived the hexadecimal.
4. Configure your wireless router to use the appropriate hexadecimal key or keys.
It is not necessary, useful, or correct to restart a DMP immediately after you define its 802.11 settings. Instead, the typical workflow is as follows.
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a. Use DMPDM to restart the DMP. b. Immediately unplug the DMP Ethernet cable. b. Unplug the DMP Ethernet cable. c. Plug in the DMP power cord. |
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Cisco Medianet is an end-to-end architecture for networks that deliver rich-media experiences. Some DMP endpoints support some Cisco Medianet 2.1 features.
Note We do not support any Medianet features on DMP 4305G endpoints.
Tip • To assess your network for Medianet readiness, see http://cisco.com/go/mra.
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DMP 4310G endpoints support discovery via DHCP and can learn their physical location. In addition, they know and can broadcast their product type, model, and software version. Through their use of your Medianet, they can receive their IP address, VLAN assignment, and network configuration settings automatically. Furthermore, they receive information from Medianet through DHCP3 that helps them to autoregister themselves with your DMM server. Later, after a successful autoregistration, the splash screen on these DMPs includes key parameters and states explicitly that setup succeeded. |
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Medianet 2.1 feature support by DMP 4400G endpoints is equivalent to support by DMP 4310G endpoints, with just one exception. Ordinarily, a DMP 4400G can participate in networks via either an Ethernet connection or a Wi-Fi connection. However: A Wi-Fi connection by a DMP 4400G prevents it from obtaining or using any Location Services information that Medianet might be configured to provide. |
3.With DHCP option 125 (V-I Vendor-Specific Information) for service discovery, after you configure your supported DHCP server to support this option. See RFC 3925. |
Note These features are designed to simplify the largest deployments, whereas DMPDM is designed to support the smallest deployments. If you manage your DMP primarily via DMPDM, your benefit from Medianet integration will be minimal.
DMP 4310G and 4400G endpoints can use CDP to announce and identify themselves on networks.
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You might use Ethernet cables to connect such DMPs to switches where the autoconfiguration (Auto Smartports) features of Medianet are enabled.
When you do, these switches recognize from the CDP announcements that the newly connected devices are DMPs.
After recognizing that a DMP is attached to one of its Ethernet ports, the switch can apply to this port a set of built-in configuration macros (Auto Smartports) that are optimized specifically for DMPs. By configuring so many settings automatically, Medianet can accelerate and simplify DMP mass deployments, QoS configuration, and asset tracking. In turn, these simplified deployments can lower your operating costs.
Medianet and a DMP 4310G can exchange these types of data.
If you would like to learn more about Medianet, see http://cisco.com/go/medianet.
Step 1 Click Network in the Settings area.
Step 2 Choose On from the Medianet Enabled list in the Medianet Services area.
Step 3 Save this changed setting, and then restart your DMP.
Note ● The only transport protocol that we can proxy in this release is HTTP over :80 or :8080.
You can configure a DMP 4310G to use a proxy server and you can specify which of your content servers should be exempt from this proxy service.
Step 1 Click Network in the Settings area.
Step 2 Choose Enabled from the Use HTTP Proxy list.
Step 3 Three fields become editable.
Port — Enter either 80 or 8080. Do not enter any other value.
No Proxy List (IP addresses separated by commas)
Note Proxy settings do not have any effect on RSS traffic. When an RSS request crosses from one Internet domain to another, your DMP is its own proxy.
Step 5 Click Save Configuration in the Administration list, and then click Save.
Step 6 Click Restart DMP in the Administration list, and then click Restart.
Note The only transport protocol that we can proxy in this release is HTTP over :80 or :8080.
You can configure a DMP 4400G or DMP 4305G to use a proxy server and you can specify which of your content servers should be exempt from this proxy service.
Step 1 Click Network in the Settings area.
Step 2 Choose Enabled from the Use HTTP Proxy list.
Step 3 Three fields become editable.
Note Proxy settings do not have any effect on RSS traffic. When an RSS request crosses from one Internet domain to another, your DMP is its own proxy.
Step 5 Click Save Configuration in the Administration list, and then click Save.
Step 6 Click Restart DMP in the Administration list, and then click Restart.
Timesaver Complete this optional procedure at your discretion.
– To verify whether you must use an Ethernet cable, see Table 2.
– Alternatively, if Table 2 does not describe your DMP model, see its datasheet at http://cisco.com/go/dms/dmp/datasheets.
Step 1 Click Wireless Configuration in the Settings list.
Tip Do you see this option in DMPDM? If not, your DMP might not support it. But you can learn whether any firmware upgrade is available that adds this feature to your DMP model.
• See our release notes — http://cisco.com/go/dms/releasenotes.
• See our compatibility information — http://cisco.com/go/dms/compatibility.
If newer firmware is available, follow the published instructions to obtain it. Then, complete the firmware upgrade procedure in your DMPDM user guide at http://cisco.com/go/dms/dmpdm.
The nature of your Cisco DMS service contract might limit:
• Which upgrades are available to you.
• Where and how you obtain upgrades.
• Whether you must pay anything to obtain upgrades.
To learn about Cisco service contracts, see http://cisco.com/go/cscc.
Step 2 Choose Enabled from the Wireless Interface list.
Each 802.11 wireless network is assigned a name to distinguish it from other networks. The technical term for this network name is Service Set Identifier, or SSID.
Step 3 Double-click the SSID for your network in the Detected Networks table.
When you do not see your SSID in the Detected Networks table, do the following.
a. Enter in the Network SSID field the SSID for your network.
b. Choose from the Security list the security method for your network. Its options are:
The security method that you choose controls, in part, which fields and options this DMPDM page shows to you.
c. Choose Enabled from the Dynamic IP Addressing (DHCP) list.
Tip Will you ever deploy your DMP in a wireless network that does not have any DHCP server? If so, you can configure your DMP to use a static IP address.
d. (Optional) Click Probe to check whether these settings work correctly with your wireless network.
e. When you are satisfied with your choices, Click Select.
f. Click Save Configuration in the Administration list, and then click Save.
Step 4 Disconnect the Ethernet cable from your DMP.
Step 5 Click Restart DMP in the Administration list, and then click Restart.
Step 6 Stop. You have completed this procedure.
Timesaver Complete this optional procedure at your discretion. It explains what to do when a DMP’s ultimate deployment site does not use DHCP.
– Transport your DMP to a site where the local network segment includes a DHCP server and ensure that you have access there to a web browser.
– Configure any system at your current location to run temporarily as a DHCP server and ensure that you have access to a web browser.
Step 1 Connect your DMP to its presentation system.
Step 2 Turn On the presentation system and then do one of the following.
Step 3 If the DHCP server process is not running yet on the DHCP server, start that process now — along with any processes that it uses.
Step 4 Turn On your DMP and make a note of the IP address that it shows on its presentation system.
Step 5 Point your browser to the IP address.
Note Is your DMP brand-new? Or, have its settings been restored to factory defaults? If so, DMPDM prompts you to define a master password for your DMP. You must do this before you can do anything else. See the “Log in to DMPDM” section.
Step 6 When prompted to log in, use the master username and password that you defined.
DMPDM loads its basic settings page in your browser.
Step 7 Choose Disabled from the Dynamic IP Addressing (DHCP) list, and then:
a. Enter in the IP Address field the static IP address that your DMP should use.
b. Enter in the Subnet Mask field the netmask that your DMP should use with its static IP address.
c. Enter in the Default Gateway field the network gateway that your DMP should use with its static IP address.
d. Enter in the Primary DNS Server field the DNS server that your DMP should use with its static IP address.
Step 8 (Optional) Will a network address translation (NAT) service give your DMP a private IP address? If so:
a. Choose Yes from the Using NAT list.
b. Enter in the NAT IP Address field the 1-to-1 public address (which is configured on the local router) that corresponds to the private IP address.
Step 10 Click Save Configuration in the Administration list, and then click Save.
Step 11 Click Restart DMP in the Administration list, and then click Restart.
Step 12 Ship or deliver the DMP to its deployment site, and then:
a. Connect it to its presentation system.
b. Connect it to its local network segment.
c. Connect it to its power source.
Step 13 Stop. You have completed this procedure.
Step 1 Log in to your wireless access point as an administrator.
Step 2 Use its administrative features to assign a static IP address to your DMP.
Step 3 Stop. You have completed this procedure.
Step 1 Click to learn the IP address of your DMP.
The address is briefly visible on your DMP display.
Step 2 Stop. You have completed this procedure.
Q. What prevents me from centrally managing my DMP?
If these statements are true, do not wait for your DMP to restart automatically. Instead, restart it manually. Until it is restarted, it cannot be centrally managed.