General settings

Video

Setting Description

Time based video playback restriction applied at

This setting determines how long (in minutes) after video is recorded that a user can view the video in the Symphony Client.

Video decorations

Setting Description

Frame rate stats

This setting determines whether the frame rate (in frames per second) appears in video.

Frame rate variance

This setting determines whether the frame rate variance decoration appears in the video. The frame rate variance decorations show how much the frame rate changes over the last 50 frames.

Overlay camera name on video

This setting determines whether the camera name appears in video.

Overlay camera ID on video

This setting determines whether the camera ID appears in video.

Overlay logo on video

This setting determines whether a custom logo appears in video.

Decoration Text Color

This setting determines the color of the text for decorations.

Background sensitive

This setting determines whether the text color for decorations automatically adjusts to the colors in the video to provide more contrast.

Decoration Text Background

This setting determines the color of the background for decoration text.

Transparency

This setting determines the transparency of the background for decoration text.

Event log

Setting Description

Enable Event Log

This setting determines whether Symphony logs events.

Never archive logs

This setting prevents Symphony from archiving event logs.

Archive logs weekly

This setting causes Symphony to archive event logs every week.

Event archive retention

This setting determines how long (in days) Symphony retains archived event logs.

SNMP

Setting Description

Enable SNMP

The setting determines whether SNMP is enabled.

Data polling rate

This setting determines how often (in seconds) the SNMP agent polls Symphony for data.

Footage size polling rate

This setting determines how often (in seconds) the SNMP agent polls Symphony for the size of video footage.

Web Client

Setting Description

Randomly redirect master server logins to other available servers in the farm

This setting determines if the master Symphony Server redirects users to other servers in the server farm. This provides load balancing for the Web Client.

Refresh rate

This setting determines how often the Web Client updates information from Symphony.

Use an ICE Server

This setting determines if you are using an ICE server with the Web Client.

Type

This setting determines what type of an ICE Server you are using, STUN or TURN.

URL

This setting is the URL of the ICE Server.

Username

This setting is the user name for the ICE Server.

Password

This setting is the password for the ICE Server.

SMTP

Setting Description

SMTP server

This setting is the URL of the SMTP server.

Use Secure Sockets Layer

This setting determines whether Symphony uses SSL for communication with the SMTP server.

Sender email account

This setting defines the email account that Symphony uses to send email.

SMTP server requires authentication

This setting determines whether the SMTP requires authentication.

Username

This setting is the user name that Symphony uses to authenticate with the SMTP server.

Password

This setting is the password that Symphony uses to authenticate with the SMTP server.

Send a test email to address

This setting allows you to test the SMTP settings. Type an email address and click Send Test to send a test email.

User Connections

Setting Description

Do not allow more than one concurrent connection per user

This setting determines if users can log in to more than one server configuration interface concurrently per server farm.

Automatically log out inactive Server Configuration users

This setting determines if Symphony automatically logs users out of the server configuration interface after a period of inactivity.

Minutes of Inactivity

This setting determines the timeout period for the server configuration interface.

Farm Location

Setting Description

GPS Latitude

This is the latitudinal coordinate of the Symphony server farm.

GPS Longitude

This is the longitudinal coordinate of the Symphony server farm.

Mobile Connections

Setting Description

SSL Certificate

This setting displays the SSL certificate that Symphony uses to communicate with mobile devices.

Mobile Port

This setting determines the port that Symphony uses to communicate with mobile devices.

Video Proxy Port

This setting determines the port that Symphony uses for sending video to and retrieving video from mobile devices.

Enable iOS Notifications

This setting determines whether push notifications are enabled for iOS devices.

SSL Certificate

Setting Description

Password

Type the password for the SSL certificate.

File window

Browse to the certificate file or drag the certificate file into this field to add the certificate to the Senstar Symphony Server.