About This Guide

This document describes how to operate Cisco Vision Dynamic Signage Director including the concepts and tasks that you need to understand to deliver your content to a screen, run an event, and monitor and maintain the operation of Cisco Vision software.

In the documentation for Cisco Vision Dynamic Signage Director, we changed the terms “master” to “lead, leader, or primary,” the term “slave” to “secondary,” the term “whitelist” to “allowlist,” and the term “blacklist” to “blocklist.” There are currently no changes to the product’s syntax, so these terms are still present in the documentation where the current code requires their use. Where an industry standard exists, such as IEEE terminology, we cannot alter the term until the standards change.

Revision History

Table 1 provides information about changes to this document.

Table 1 Revision History
Date
Description

February 9, 2021

Updated to include clear instructions about changing the DMP password. See DMP Diagnostic URL.

September 30, 2020

Updated content to remove racially-biased terms.

August 21, 2020

Initial publication of Release 6.3 document. The following updates and enhancement were made to Cisco Vision Dynamic Signage Director:

■blank.gif Management Dashboard was redesigned into three interfaces:

–blank.gifAnew global navigation icon, System Status, displays server utilization and DMP status summary information and Monitor and Status of Services.

–blank.gifDMP and TV Controls operations are now part of the enhanced Device Management interface.

–blank.gifMuch of the setting functionality is now available in two new icons added to the Configuration global navigation icon: TV Off Configuration and System Configuration.

■blank.gifEnhancement of the Device Management interface to include Search, Filter, and Find on devices and text strings, as well as DMP and TV Control settings and status information.

■blank.gif Script Management enhancements to include a new Instance tab and multi-delete.

■blank.gifExternal URL-based channel improvement—Channel No Change.

■blank.gifRandomized playlist playout

■blank.gifVideo offset control for video walls

■blank.gifWe now support 4K video content on the CV-HD2 DMPs and dual 4K video content on the CV-UHD2 DMPs. The CV-UHD2 DMPs use dual 4K video decoders, Dolby Vision, HDR10, and are 4K HTML capable.

■blank.gifEnhanced Library interface to show all migrated menu board content into DynamicMenuBoard folders in Workspace.

■blank.gifVideo layer ordering, graphics can be sandwiched between two video layers

See Cisco Vision Dynamic Signage Director Release Notes for Release 6.3.