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CMS Wallboards
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cyberjamos
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Depends, do you have ultralink? How are your wallboards fed, is it direct from cms or via another server/pc?
Cheers,
NJ
PS: Please let me know if my advice has been of any use.
Cheers,
NJ
PS: Please let me know if my advice has been of any use.
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cyberjamos
IS-IT--Management
Ok, the system can be fed in 1 of 2 ways (from my experience.) You will either have a PC/Server that will be running Ultralink (or another type of wallboard display)software, I don't think you've got this, if you did you'd know because you will have an extra bit of hardware lying around.
The other way is for CMS itself to to be feeding the wallboards via a process that is running on the server. The easiest way to locate this is log into CMS (via the terminal) as the cms user. The text menu should have an option called Wallboard(s); the start/stop elements are under this option. If you don't see it, have a look at the Main Menu Addition option on the User Permissions, see if the option appears under there - it may be as simple as the cms user hasn't been given access to see it on the main menu.
If this isn't available, log off CMS (so that you are brought back to the file-system prompt). The files/programs for the wallboard feed are stored in:
/home/export/pserv/xxxxx
xxxxx can either be 'ultraftp' if you've got ultralink or 'walld' if you've got the CMS feed; have a look in this folder see what's about; if you've got 'walld' there should be a 'startwalld' and a 'stopwalld' command, run the startwalld and see what happens. (bear in mind you have to type ./startwalld)
Cheers,
NJ
PS: Please let me know if my advice has been of any use.
The other way is for CMS itself to to be feeding the wallboards via a process that is running on the server. The easiest way to locate this is log into CMS (via the terminal) as the cms user. The text menu should have an option called Wallboard(s); the start/stop elements are under this option. If you don't see it, have a look at the Main Menu Addition option on the User Permissions, see if the option appears under there - it may be as simple as the cms user hasn't been given access to see it on the main menu.
If this isn't available, log off CMS (so that you are brought back to the file-system prompt). The files/programs for the wallboard feed are stored in:
/home/export/pserv/xxxxx
xxxxx can either be 'ultraftp' if you've got ultralink or 'walld' if you've got the CMS feed; have a look in this folder see what's about; if you've got 'walld' there should be a 'startwalld' and a 'stopwalld' command, run the startwalld and see what happens. (bear in mind you have to type ./startwalld)
Cheers,
NJ
PS: Please let me know if my advice has been of any use.
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I was checking out our setting(configurations) on our wallboards yesterday using the terminal verison of CMS. I went out to start/stop, and when I went back to configurations, most of the 12 configurations were gone. Any ideas on why this happened, or more importanly, how to get them back. They boards are running fine for now, but if someone were to start/stop we would be dead in the water. We are searching for old documentation of settings, but haven't found them yet.
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