Acronyms and Definitions

The following acronyms and terms are used in this
document:

  DMS:   Digital Media Systems

  DAM:   Digital Asset Management System

  DMM:   Digital Media Manager Application

  VP :   Video Portal Application

  DSM:   Digital Signage Manager Application

  ETV:   Enterprise TV Manager Application

  DMP:   Cisco Digital Media Player

  LAN:   Local Area Network

  Group: A collection of DMS users grouped and
         managed together as a single entity for
         administrative convenience.


Overview of the MIB

This is a MIB Module for managing and monitoring the physical
and logical structures in Cisco Digital Media Management
        System. The MIB reflects the structure as follows:
    * show DMS as an coherent, abstract media management system
    * indicate the physical inventory of DMS
    * indicate the media management features active (licensed)
      in the system.
    * show the streaming and storage components and their
      activity
    * elements of DMS security
    * external servers used by the system
    * events and alarms

Hence, the MIB contains eight major groups of objects organized
as follows:
 a) DMS System Group:
      This section models distributed DMS as a single abstract
      system.

 b) DMS Features Group:
      This section lists the DMS functions that this
      installation is licensed to perform and those that it
      is not.

 c) DMS Inventory Group:
      This section lists the physical elements that this
      installation of DMS comprises.

 d) Servers Group:
      This section models the external servers used by this
      installation of DMS.

 e) Digital Asset Management (DAM) Services Group:
      This section models the state and activity of various
      content management services that this installation of
      DMS is equipped with. The loose term 'content management'
      has been intentionally used to as to be able to
      accommodate more content management services in this
      model as they evolve.

 f) Security Group:
      This section defines the security configuration and
      activity of this installation of DMS.

 g) Fault Tolerance Group:
      This section models the redundancy (failover and
      load balancing) configuration of this installation of
      DMS and the associated activity.

 h) User Management Group:
      This section models the configured DMS users, groups
      and the associated activity.

 i) Events and Faults Group:
      This section models the events, alarms and notifications
      reported by this installation of DMS.

 j) Capacity Group:
      This section is planned for the future and would define
      the limits and capacities of functions of DMS. These
      include limits such as the type of media encodings that
      are supported, the maximum number of media players that
      may be managed etc.

 k) Resource Usage Group:
      This section is planned for the future and would define
      the current resource usage by DMS.
      This would include the amount of storage used by DMS,
      the number of encoders currently in use etc.

 l) Threshold group (allows definition of high water marks)
      This section is planned for the future and would allow
      the management entity to define thresholds to set high
      water marks on critical metrics.

 m) Notifications
      This section defines notifications to signal
      significant events pertaining to this installation of
      DMS.