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Contents

Quick Start Guide for
Cisco Digital Media System 4.0

Revised: April 3, 2008
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Information in this guide is organized into these top-level sections:

• Introduction, page 1

Introduction

• Setting Up and Configuring Cisco Video Portal 4.0, page 2

• Setting Up and Configuring Cisco Digital Media Manager 4.0, page 4

• Related Documentation, page 10

• Obtaining Documentation, Obtaining Support, and Security Guidelines, page 11

This guide describes how to install, back up, and recover these Cisco Digital Media System components:

• Cisco Video Portal (VP) appliances:

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Cisco Video Portal 4.0 and Video Portal Reports 4.0 on MCS 7825-H2.

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Cisco Video Portal 4.0 and Video Portal Reports 4.0 on MCS 7835-H1.

• Cisco Digital Media Manager 4.0 on MCS 7835-H1.

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Setting Up and Configuring Cisco Video Portal 4.0

Setting Up and Configuring Cisco Video Portal 4.0

If you purchased a Cisco Video Portal 4.0 appliance, use the checklist in this section to track your
progress while you complete the required tasks to set up and configure the hardware and software.

Before You Begin

• Verify that at least one computer on your network is configured for access to other networked

devices through TCP ports 80 and 8080.

• Enable popup windows in your browser if they are disabled.

• Learn if your network uses dynamic (DHCP) or static IP addresses, and—if your network uses static

IP addresses:

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Learn what IP address to assign to the Video Portal appliance.

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Learn what subnet mask (netmask) to use.

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Learn what IP addresses are assigned to the default network gateway, the primary DNS server,
and the secondary DNS server.

Task

1. Set up the Video Portal appliance hardware.

a. Unpack the equipment from its container and verify that all components are present.

b. Plug in the redundant power cables at the back of the appliance.

c. Plug in the network cable to Port 1 at the back of the appliance.

d. Connect the server appliance to a monitor using the VGA output in the back of the appliance.

e. Connect the server appliance to a standard PS2 keyboard using the purple PS2 port located in the back of

the appliance.

f. Power on the appliance.

2. After you can see and read the “Start of First Boot” message, press Enter.

3. Specify the fully qualified hostname for the Video Portal appliance. You can enter either the DNS-routable

hostname or the IP address, then select OK. For example:

server.example.com

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Task

Caution We recommend that you do not use DHCP to obtain an IP address for your Video Portal appliance, due to

the sometimes unpredictable expiration of IP addresses in DHCP systems and the administrative overhead
of reconfiguring other devices to reestablish disrupted connections (for depoloyments or any other purpose).
We further recommend that you do not change the static IP address that you assign to the appliance.

4. Enter IP address and routing information.

• If your appliance will obtain its IP address from a DHCP server, select Yes .

• If your appliance will use a static IP address, select No, so that you can enter the static network settings.

If your appliance will use a static IP address, you must:

a. Enter the IP address that your appliance should use.

b. Enter the subnet mask.

c. Enter the default gateway IP address or DNS-routable hostname.

d. Enter the primary DNS server IP address or DNS-routable hostname.

e. Enter the secondary DNS server IP address or DNS-routable hostname.

f. Select OK.

5. Confirm if you entered the correct network settings. If the settings are correct, select Ye s . Alternatively, if they

are wrong, select No to go back and correct them.

6. Configure settings for the appliance network interface card (NIC).

Do one of the following:

• If the NIC for your appliance should autonegotiate the fastest possible transmission mode when it is

connected to another device, select Ye s.

• If the NIC should not autonegotiate, select No, select the NIC speed, select OK, select the duplex method,

select OK, then select Ye s.

7. Select the time zone settings.

a. Use the Up/Down arrow keys to navigate through the Time Zone list.

b. Stop when the correct time zone is displayed, then select OK.

c. If the settings are correct, select Ye s. Alternatively, if they are wrong, select No to go back and correct them.

8. Select the current month, year, and day.

a. Use the Tab key and the Up/Down arrow keys to navigate and change the selected values.

b. When you are done, select OK.

c. If the settings are correct, select Ye s. Alternatively, if they are wrong, select No to go back and correct them.

9. Select the current hour, minute, and second. Use the format for military time (24 hours that increment from 0100

to 2400).

a. Use the Tab key and the Up/Down arrow keys to navigate and change the selected values.

b. When you are done, select OK.

c. If the settings are correct, select Ye s. Alternatively, if they are wrong, select No to go back and correct them.

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Task

Caution Write down the selections that you make when you complete this task. You must make exactly the same

selections later, when you configure the “supported media formats” for your DMM appliance in Tas k 17. If
your selections differ in these two related tasks, your Video Portal might not work correctly.

10. Select the supported filetypes and formats for video encoding.

a. Select the media formats that your Video Portal will support (any combination of the options WMV, FLV, QT,

and RM), then select OK and:

• If you selected two or more formats, specify the primary format, then select OK.

• If you selected three or more formats, specify the secondary format, then select OK.

• If you selected four or more formats, specify the tertiary format, then select OK.

b. Confirm your selections, then select OK.

Caution You must enter the instance name. If you do not, setup fails.

11. Enter the Video Portal instance name, then select OK twice.

12. Enter a password for the admin account. This is by default the account to use when you administer the appliance.

The password that you enter must contain at least six characters. When you are done, select OK.

Tip We recommend that you use a strong password. A strong password has at least eight characters and contains

numbers, letters (both uppercase and lowercase), and symbols.

13. Enter a password for the pwadmin account. This is the account to use if you forget your password for the admin

account. When you are done entering the password, select OK twice.

After a moment, the appliance reboots and a login prompt is displayed.

Your Video Portal installation will be complete after you complete the required steps to obtain a license
and activate the Video Portal features. See Task 12 in Setting Up and Configuring Cisco Digital Media

Manager 4.0, page 4.

Setting Up and Configuring Cisco Digital Media Manager 4.0

Use the checklist in this section to track your progress while you complete the required tasks to set up
your DMM appliance and configure its software.

Before You Begin

• Verify that at least one computer on your network is configured for access to other networked

devices through TCP ports 80 and 8080.

• Enable popup windows in your browser if they are disabled.

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