Table Of Contents

Preface

Document Conventions

Obtaining Documentation, Obtaining Support, and Security Guidelines

Preface

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Cisco Digital Media System is the collective name for a product family that consists of Cisco Digital Media Manager (DMM) appliances, Cisco Video Portal appliances, Cisco Digital Media Player (DMP) endpoints, Cisco Digital Media Encoder (DME) devices, and all associated software components.

This administration guide describes how to set up, configure, and administer your DMM appliances and your Video Portal appliances. It also tells you how to use the Appliance Administration Interface (AAI), a text user interface that helps you to administer a DMS appliance.

The intended audience for this guide is systems or network administrators who install, configure, or troubleshoot DMS appliance hardware. See Cisco.com for related DMS and DMM user documentation

Document Conventions

This guide uses these text formatting conventions:

Item	Convention
Commands and keywords	boldface font
Variables for which you supply values	italic font
Displayed session and system information	screen font
Information you enter	boldface screen font
Variables you enter	italic screen font
Menu items and button names	boldface font
Selecting a menu item in paragraphs	Option > Network Preferences
Selecting a menu item in tables	Option > Network Preferences

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Note Means reader take note. Notes contain helpful suggestions or references to material not covered in the publication.

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Caution Means reader be careful. In this situation, you might do something that could result in equipment damage or loss of data.

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Tip Means the following information will help you solve a problem. The tips information might not be troubleshooting or even an action, but could be useful information, similar to a Timesaver.

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Obtaining Documentation, Obtaining Support, and Security Guidelines

For information on obtaining documentation, obtaining support, providing documentation feedback, security guidelines, and also recommended aliases and general Cisco documents, see the monthly What's New in Cisco Product Documentation, which also lists all new and revised Cisco technical documentation, at:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/general/whatsnew/whatsnew.html