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 Senstar Symphony Client. After the time elapses, the Senstar Symphony Server marks the video as restricted and a user requires the View Restricted Historical Video permission to view the restricted historical video.

Storage

Setting Description

Limit the number of days video is stored

This setting determines whether the Senstar Symphony Server deletes video older than the set number of days.

Keep metadata longer

This setting determines whether the Senstar Symphony Server retains metadata from video for the set number of days after it deletes the video.

Include all data

This setting determines whether the Senstar Symphony Server retains all data (e.g. search results, images, etc.) for the set number of days.

Maximum log storage in MB

This setting determines the maximum size of log files.

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.

Alarms

Setting Description

No Aggregation

Select to turn off alarm aggregation.

Aggregate

Select to aggregate alarms.

Aggregate and Re-Alarm

Select to aggregate alarms but to process each subsequent alarm as a new alarm.

Aggregation Maximum Alarms

Select to set the maximum number of alarms that can be included in an alarm aggregate.

Aggregate Timeout

Select to set how much time can elapse between alarms before new alarms are added to a new alarm aggregate.

Acknowledgement Timeout

Select to set how much time can elapse without marking an acknowledged alarm before it returns to an unacknowledged state.

Audit

Setting Description

Enable Audit

This setting determines whether the Senstar Symphony Server logs events.

Never archive audit

This setting prevents the Senstar Symphony Server from archiving audits.

Archive audit weekly

This setting causes the Senstar Symphony Server to archive audits every week.

Audit archive retention

This setting determines how long (in days) the Senstar Symphony Server retains archived audits.

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 the Senstar Symphony Server for data.

Footage size polling rate

This setting determines how often (in seconds) the SNMP agent polls the Senstar Symphony Server 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 Senstar Symphony Server redirects users to other servers in the server farm. This provides load balancing for the Senstar Symphony Web Client.

Refresh rate

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

Use an ICE Server

This setting determines if you are using an ICE server with the Senstar Symphony 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 the Senstar Symphony Server uses SSL for communication with the SMTP server.

Sender email account

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

SMTP server requires authentication

This setting determines whether the SMTP requires authentication.

Username

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

Password

This setting is the password that the Senstar Symphony Server 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 Senstar Symphony Server configuration interface concurrently per server farm.

Automatically log out inactive Server Configuration users

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

Minutes of Inactivity

This setting determines the timeout period for the Senstar Symphony Server configuration interface.

Farm Location

Setting Description

GPS Latitude

This is the latitudinal coordinate of the Senstar Symphony Server farm.

GPS Longitude

This is the longitudinal coordinate of the Senstar Symphony Server farm.

Mobile Connections

Setting Description

SSL Certificate

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

Mobile Port

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

Video Proxy Port

This setting determines the port that the Senstar Symphony Server 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.

Features

Setting Description

Enable Two Stage Alarm Processing

Select this option to enable two-stage alarms in the Senstar Symphony Client. Two-stage alarm processing allows a user to acknowledge an alarm to claim the alarm before processing the alarm.

Enable Two Stage Enhanced Alarm processing

Select this option to enable two-stage enhanced alarms in the Senstar Symphony Client. Two-stage enhanced alarm processing allows a user with higher priority to acknowledge an alarm and claim it from a user with lower priority.

This option is available when you enable two-stage alarm processing.

Optional Alarm Comments

Select this option to be able to reset an alarm without adding a comment to the alarm.

This option is available when you enable two-stage enhanced alarm processing.

Reason text field is optional for masking hardware nodes

This option is available when you enable two-stage enhanced alarm processing.

Require Integration State Change

Select this option to require that the hardware node state changes before you can reset the alarm. This option requires that you resolve the issue with the hardware node before you are able to reset the alarm.

This option is available when you enable two-stage enhanced alarm processing.