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Cisco Interactive Experience Client 4600 Series User Guide
Chapter 1 Introduction
What’s New in This Release
What’s New in This Release
This release includes the following enhancements for the Cisco Interactive Experience Client (IEC) 4600
Series software:
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IEC SW has been upgraded to Ubuntu 14.04 and Qt 5.4. The existing Ubuntu distro is no longer
supported.
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Devices with long serial number are now supported in the IEM. The length of serial number accepted
is between 11 to 32 digits.
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IEM shows event logs in both Local and Device Time in the Events table.
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IEM now displays the number of registered and the number of online devices in each account.
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IEM now displays the number of items in Accounts, Users, Policies, Notifications, and Schedules.
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Added Severity and Facility columns in the Events table of the IEM.
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Custom font support for the IEC via @font-face.
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Websocket support for the IEC.
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Display wake up feature added so a user can set a device’s profile to make the connected display
turn on by any input from either a keyboard or mouse.
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Snapshot feature added to the SIP widget. The size of the snapshot taken is limited to 640x480
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The network utility ping has been added to the IEC's terminal shell commands to test the reachability
of a host from the IEC.
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Support for universal remote controllers. By uploading a LIRC config file for the remote to the new
IR Configuration property in the IEM, a user can use that remote instead of the default Cisco remote.
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Virtual keyboard support for the IEC's System Settings.
About This User Guide
This section describes what is included in this guide and explains who should use it.
Terminology
The following terms are used in this user guide.
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Accounts - Allow multiple organizations to configure and manage devices and policies in a single
Cisco Interactive Experience Manager instance. Use accounts to segregate users, devices, and
policies. Each organization will have at least one account.
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Administrators - People who have access to all accounts on the system. The
Cisco Interactive
Experience Manager Installation Guide
provides administrators with all the information necessary
to install and administer the Cisco Interactive Experience Manager.
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Device - The client at the kiosk such as the Cisco Interactive Experience Client 4600 Series or
Panasonic Connected Solutions Agent.
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Policies- An easy and flexible way of applying settings to multiple devices or users.
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Users - People who are associated with specific accounts on Cisco Interactive Experience Manager.
They cannot access any other account except for the ones that they are assigned to.