Chapter 11 Register DMPs

Concepts

Digital Signs

a.Create and save a system task that uses:

Set as its request type.

init.startService_msi=yes&mib.save=1&mng.reboot=1 as its request string.

b.Schedule and deploy the system task to run on your DMP 4310G or 4400G. The request string includes a command to restart your DMP.

Restrictions

Non-Medianet Autoregistration

DMM-native autoregistration — which does not use any Medianet technologies — depends upon the Cisco TAC Troubleshooting Access option for DMPs and fails unless this option is enabled.

DHCP

As of May 2011, these DHCP servers have passed our tests for using Medianet with DMPs.

Linux ISC dhcpd

The DHCP implementation in Windows Server 2003

The DHCP implementation in Windows Server 2008

Cisco Network Registrar

 

 

 

Note

This Cisco DMS release does not support any DHCP server that runs on any Cisco router or switch.

 

 

 

Login Credentials

All DMPs that you manage centrally in DMM must share one identical set of DMPDM login credentials.

Medianet

A DMP 4310G might come to use the wrong IP address when it relies upon a Medianet switch where more than one VLAN uses DHCP. For the switch to bungle IP address assignment in this way, temporary conditions that do not sever the DMP’s AC power connection must nonetheless interrupt its network connection through the switch. (Thus, this problem cannot possibly occur while the DMP uses PoE.) Specifically, the Medianet switch assigns its default VLAN to your DMP. But then — after your DMP’s network connection is interrupted and restored — your Medianet switch assigns to your DMP a dynamic IP address from another VLAN on this same switch. The mismatch disrupts centralized management of your DMP.

To prevent this problem or to recover from it, you must run a shell script on your switch. See the “Prevent DHCP Address Assignments to the Wrong VLAN” section on page 11-21.

 

 

User Guide for Cisco Digital Media Manager 5.2.x

 

 

 

 

 

 

OL-15762-03

 

 

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Cisco Systems 5.2.x manual Non-Medianet Autoregistration, Login Credentials, 11-9