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Chapter 22 Plan for and Manage Emergencies

Procedures

Note	Consider very carefully which DMM users should have permission to work with your schedule and manage
		your DMP groups. Although all of the “Play in Future” features are suspended (for affected DMPs only) while an emergency
		is in progress, none of the “Play Now” features or “DMP Manager” features are suspended. Therefore, it is possible for a careless
		user or malicious user with sufficient permissions to start another event manually on the DMPs where an emergency message
		should play.
		If policies in your organization require of you that one or more screen zones must show assets that are
		editable, you can stage the editable assets remotely on one of your external deployment servers instead
		of staging them locally on your DMPs. Then, the people in your organization who are entrusted to edit
		these assets can change them — to update the emergency message, for example — in real time.
		After an emergency has stopped and normal scheduling has resumed on a DMP group and its children,
		any playlist or presentation that was scheduled for playback at that time will start from the beginning.

Procedures

•Create Deployment Packages for Emergencies, page 22-2

•Provision Emergency Assets Immediately to DMP Local Storage, page 22-3

•Schedule the Future Staging of Emergency Assets, page 22-6

•Start Playback of an Emergency Message, page 22-7

•Stop Playback of an Emergency Message, page 22-8

Create Deployment Packages for Emergencies

Before You Begin

•Populate the playlist or design the presentation whose assets you will transfer to your DMPs.

Procedure

Step 1 Define a deployment task for DMS-CD to provisioning emergency assets to DMP local storage.

Alternatively, do the following to define a file transfer task that you can deploy:

a.Choose Digital Media Players > Advanced Tasks, and then click File Transfer to DMP or Server.

b.To create a new file transfer task, click Add New Application.

c.After the page is refreshed, do the following to define behaviors for, and save, the file transfer task.

1.Enter a specific name, such as “Fire” or “Flash Flood,” for the type of emergency. You might want to use a less specific name, such as “Emergencies,” if this task will transfer the assets for multiple presentations or playlists, or if your organization uses one playlist or presentation for emergencies of all kinds.

2.From the DMP Publishing Protocol list, choose FTP or HTTP, and then check the Emergency/Alarm check box.

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