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UserGuide for Cisco Digital Media Manager5.4.x
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Plan for and Manage Emergencies
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Warning
Severe conditions that disrupt equipment during and after an emergency might prevent messages
from playing on your digital signs.
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Concepts, page 22-1
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Procedures, page 22-2
Concepts
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Overview, page22-1
Overview
When emergencies of any kind affect sites where you have digital signs, you can use them to alert your
viewers, warn them about dangers that might affect them, and direct them to safety. Or you can provide
other kinds of information to them as you see fit. Until you stop playing emergency messages, they
override all events that were scheduled to run automatically.
It is important to remember that emergency message insertions in your schedule will override only the
events that are scheduled to run automatically. Furthermore, such insertions will override these events
on only the DMPs that the emergency message insertion affected. All other DMPs in your network will
abide by their schedule, without disruption.
Note Consider very carefully which DMM users should have permission to work with your Channels and manage
yourDMP groups. Although all of the future scheduling features are suspended (for affected DMPs only) while an emergency
isin progress, none of the Run Task features or other 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
shouldplay.
Audience
We prepared this material with specific expectations of you.
You will use CiscoDigital Signs for public safety messaging.