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User Guide for Cisco Digital Media Manager 5.2.x
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Chapter 11 Register DMPs
Concepts
Understand Medianet Autoconfiguration for DMPs
Some DMP models can use CDP to announce and identify themselves on networks.
• NEW IN CISCO DMS 5.2.2—DMP 4310G
• NEW IN CISCO DMS 5.2.3—DMP 4400G
And you might use Ethernet cables to connect such DMPs to switches where the autoconfiguration (Auto
Smartports) features of Medianet are enabled. When you do, these switches recognize from the CDP
announcements that the newly connected devices are DMPs.
After recognizing that a DMP is attached to one of its Ethernet ports, the switch can apply to this port a
set of built-in configuration macros (Auto Smartports) that are optimized specifically for DMPs. By
configuring so many settings automatically, Medianet can accelerate and simplify DMP mass
deployments, QoS configuration, and asset tracking. In turn, these simplified deployments can lower
your operating costs.
Information That Medianet and DMPs Exchange
Medianet and a DMP can exchange these types of data.
• name of the chassis
• system name
• system object
• hardware revision
• firmware revision
• software revision
• serial number
• manufacturing name
• model name
• asset identifier
• CDP timeout
• VLAN assignment
• switch port assignment
• switch name and model
• switch IP address
• location string
If you would like to learn more about Medianet, see http://cisco.com/go/medianet.