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Chapter11 Register DMPs
Concepts
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Location Services Mechanism by which a device can learn its actual physical (“civic”) location through its connection to
a Medianet-ready switch. Upon learning its location, the device can then share this information with
peers, management servers, and other equipment on its network. The physical location of a DMP is
almost always an important factor in which central management server it should trust, which assets it
should play, which commands it should run, and which schedule it shouldfollow.
Someone must configure two essential values on your Medianet-enabled switch: “civic-location-id”
and “additional-location-information.” These values are encapsulated into a CDP message that
endpoints receive.
civic-location-id
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 valu e. 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 DMP4400G 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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Medianet End-to-end intelligent architecture for optimized delivery of rich media to a variety of endpoints
throughout an enterprise. Cisco Medianet is media-aware, endpoint-aware, and network-aware.
MSI Media Services Interface. Announces services to a DMP or any other Medianet-ready device that you
connect to a Medianet-enabled switch. MSI tells devices about their neighbors and their civic location.
MSI registration
service
Medianet feature by which:
•Devices send encrypted registration requests to management servers.
•Servers receive such requests, respond to them, and store records in a local database.