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Senstar Symphony Client
The Senstar Symphony Client includes functionality to monitor cameras, manage video, generate reports, and configure alarms.
Settings
You can use the Senstar Symphony Client settings to customize the Senstar Symphony Client interface.
Alarms settings

Introduction
Senstar Symphony is award-winning, intelligent video surveillance software that offers a single, innovative, and open IP video platform for video management, video analytics, system integration, and alarm management.
Senstar Symphony Server
The Senstar Symphony Client includes functionality to manage devices, security, rules, sites, and settings.
Senstar Symphony Client
The Senstar Symphony Client includes functionality to monitor cameras, manage video, generate reports, and configure alarms.
- Open command
  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.
- View log files
  You can view, search, and download log files for the Symphony Client and any Symphony Servers to which the Client connects.
- View events
  You can view and export events for the Symphony Client and any Symphony Servers to which the Client connects.
- Lock times
  You can lock times on navigation in the client interface to make all camera view panels display video from the same time.
- Customize the toolbar
  You can change the icons that appear on the toolbar in the client interface.
- Disable single sign-on
  You can disable the single sign-on option when changing users and registering new farms in the Symphony Client.
- Device tree
  The device tree in the Senstar Symphony Client interface lists the cameras, devices, and carousels available on the Senstar Symphony Server.
- Server list
  The Senstar Symphony Client interface lists the Senstar Symphony Server instances to which the Senstar Symphony Client is connected and the state of those instances. You can select a Senstar Symphony Server to access the cameras and devices that are connected to that instance.
- Camera view panels
  Camera view panels display live video, recorded video, and decorations from cameras.
- Timeline
  Timelines display the activities and alarms for a camera in the client interface.
- Maps
  Maps can display the location of cameras, camera views, digital inputs and output devices, links, and labels in the Senstar Symphony Client interface.
- Messenger
  Symphony Messenger allows you to send messages to any user who is logged in to the Symphony Client or Symphony Web Client.
- Carousels
  Carousels can loop through multiple cameras across multiple servers in the same server farm, pausing on each camera for a defined time.
- Settings
  You can use the Senstar Symphony Client settings to customize the Senstar Symphony Client interface.
  - View camera activity
    You can view the activity for multiple cameras and open camera view panels for specific times from each camera's timeline.
  - Customize the toolbar
    You can add or remove icons from the toolbar.
  - Change timeline colors
    You can change the colors that the Senstar Symphony Client uses in the timeline.
  - Startup settings
  - Display settings
  - Alarms settings
  - Video settings
  - Customize settings
  - Sound settings
  - Regional settings
  - Global settings
  - Lock settings
    The lock settings determine the functionality that is available to users when you lock the Senstar Symphony Client and allows you to set the passphrase for unlocking the Senstar Symphony Client.
  - Update settings
  - Advanced settings
- Bookmarks
  A bookmark identifies specific footage that you can return to later. Bookmarks can refer to live videos, recorded videos, or still images.
- Video wall
  The video wall feature in the Senstar Symphony Client can display footage from multiple cameras in the server farm on multiple monitors.
- Server configuration
  Although you perform most configuration for the Senstar Symphony Server in the Senstar Symphony Server configuration interface, the Senstar Symphony Client interface includes functionality to configure some settings on the Senstar Symphony Server.
- Reports
  You can generate reports on the data from the Senstar Symphony Server.
- Alarms
  Alarms occur when a video analytic running on a device detects the conditions of a rule.
- Visual tracking
  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.
Senstar Symphony Web Client
The Senstar Symphony Web Client includes functionality to monitor cameras, manage video, generate reports, and configure alarms.
Senstar Symphony Player
The Senstar Symphony Player is an application that can view video files created in the Senstar Symphony Client.
Legal information
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Alarms settings


Setting	Description
Show Alarm Window (click OK required)	Select to make the Senstar Symphony Client display a dialog box when an alarm occurs.
Alarm Pop-up mode	Select how the Senstar Symphony Client displays alarm dialog boxes.
Flash panel on alarm	Select to display an alarm indicator around camera view panels when cameras record alarms.
Number of seconds to flash alarm	Specify how long the alarm indicator flashes when cameras record alarms. The alarm indicator will flash until the time elapses or you acknowledge the alarm.
Alarm Box colour on Timeline/Show rule alarms in Alarm Log	Select whether the alarm appears in the alarm log and set the color for the alarm in the timeline.