Senstar Symphony

The Symphony Server uses the network ports below by default.

You can open the server configuration interface in a browser.

The Symphony Server runs the following services.

Symphony supports cameras, digital input/output devices, and access control devices.

Security settings in Symphony allow you to configure authentication for users, set and change permissions for users and groups quickly, and add watermarks to video.

Symphony can generate alarms from rules. Rules include events, action sets, and schedules.

License settings in Symphony allow you to view and refresh licenses.

Settings in Symphony allow you to configure servers, general settings, email notifications, health monitoring, Enterprise Manager, updates, and backup and restore.

Symphony video analytics provide real-time alerts, smart video search, and reporting.

You can open the Symphony Client using a command in the command line. In addition, you can add arguments to the command that open specific cameras and, in the case of PTZ cameras, specific camera presets.

You can view, search, and download log files for the Symphony Client and any Symphony Servers to which the Client connects.

You can view and export events for the Symphony Client and any Symphony Servers to which the Client connects.

You can lock times on navigation in the client interface to make all camera view panels display video from the same time.

You can change the icons that appear on the toolbar in the client interface.

You can disable the single sign-on option when changing users and registering new farms in the Symphony Client.

The device tree in the Symphony Client interface lists the cameras, devices, and carousels available on the Symphony Server.

The Symphony Client interface lists the Symphony Server instances to which the Symphony Client is connected and the state of those instances. You can select a Symphony Server to access the cameras and devices that are connected to that instance.

Camera view panels display live video, recorded video, and decorations from cameras.

Timelines display the activities and alarms for a camera in the client interface.

Maps can display the location of cameras, camera views, digital inputs and output devices, links, and labels in the Symphony Client interface.

Symphony Messenger allows you to send messages to any user who is logged in to the Symphony Client or Symphony Web Client.

Carousels can loop through multiple cameras across multiple servers in the same server farm, pausing on each camera for a defined time.

You can use the Symphony Client settings to customize the client interface.

A bookmark identifies specific footage that you can return to later. Bookmarks can refer to live videos, recorded videos, or still images.

The video wall feature in Symphony can display footage from multiple cameras in the server farm on multiple monitors.

Although you perform most configuration for the Symphony Server in the server configuration interface, the client interface includes functionality to configure some settings on the Symphony Server.

You can generate reports on the data from Symphony.

Alarms occur when a video analytic running on a device detects the conditions of a rule.

The visual tracking feature allows you to add links to cameras that will automatically switch the camera view panel to an adjacent camera. You can use this feature to track a moving subject across multiple cameras.

You can open the Web Client in a browser.

You can install the Symphony Player as a standalone application.

You can enable watermark verification for the Symphony Player to prevent the Player from playing tampered video.

You can play video from a file or a URL.