Zusa Configuration

Campaign Manager Zusa (CM Zusa) is the “business end” of the Campaign Manager system. The Zusa is responsible for playing back media as screensaver and managing playlists, media downloads as well as monitoring system heal th.

Zusa needs to be configured with a channel configuration file to download metadata and media from the server. Once configured and started, Zusa reports back to CM Service and downloads content from the service over http protocol. The channel configuration file includes information about the CM Service and other associated data that is required for the Zusa to contact CM Service.

To generate a channel configuration file, login to your domain and open the Channels page. Now select any existing channel in the list. Please refer to Technical documentation about how to create a channel.

Click Create Zusa Configuration File either from the left context menu or from right click context menu.

This creates file with .cmzc extension.

To configure the Zusa with the channel configuration file. Double click on the .cmzc file. This will auto configure the zusa.

Task dialog will inform that the Zusa has been successfully configured.

If you do not want to configure the zusa with an active channel but just want the zusa to connect to the CM Service so that at a later time you can configure the zusa, then you need to use default configuration file in same way.

Note that once configured and started, zusa will appear only in device listview under domain. The subscribed channel column will show “Not Configured” as this zusa has not been configured with any existing channel. This zusa won’t play anything until zusa is configured with a proper channel and Ca mpaigns are published to it.

Zusa Configuration UI opens up on double click on the .cmzc file (configuration file). In Zusa configuration UI has two parts: Change my channel and Advanced Settings.

Channel my channel settings enable a user to make changes to the zusa channel relationship. From the drop down menu the proper channel can be selected.

Under dropdown menu, there is a shortcut to run diagnostics called test. Selecting test we actually run diagnostics, if diagnostics passed then we receive message Test passed!

Under advanced settings we have two sections:

1. Network Settings

1. Diagnostics

This section configures the connection settings of the Zusa, mainly the node server settings and proxy server settings.

To setup the node server, select the Use node server checkbox. Then enter the node server IP address as well as the port number. Default node server port is 7500. By default node server checkbox is unchecked.

To setup the proxy server, select the Use proxy server checkbox. Then enter the proxy server IP address as well as port number. Default proxy server port is 80. You can also enter proxy server username and password. By default proxy server checkbox is unchecked.

Zusa diagnostics checks its ability to connect to the CM Service and download media over http protocol. Diagnostics must pass for zusa to function properly.

There are two options available: Run diagnostics and Cancel. To run diagnostics click run diagnostics button and to cancel it click cancel button.