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Senstar Symphony Client
The Senstar Symphony Client includes functionality to monitor cameras, manage video, generate reports, and configure alarms.
View panels
View panels can display live video, recorded video, decorations from cameras, browser pages, and maps in the Senstar Symphony Client interface.
Load a camera view

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 Server 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 Senstar 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.
- Change your password
  You can change the password for your user account in the Senstar Symphony Client interface.
- View log files
  You can view, search, and download log files for the Senstar Symphony Client and any Senstar Symphony Server to which the Senstar Symphony Client connects.
- View events
  You can view and export events for the Senstar Symphony Client and any Senstar Symphony Server to which the Senstar Symphony Client connects.
- Lock times
  You can lock times on navigation in the Senstar Symphony 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 Senstar Symphony Client interface.
- Disable single sign-on
  You can disable the single sign-on option when changing users and registering new farms in the Senstar Symphony Client.
- Configure the SSL certificate timeout
  You can set how long the Senstar Symphony Client waits for a valid certificate before it falls back to a non-SSL connection.
- 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.
- View panels
  View panels can display live video, recorded video, decorations from cameras, browser pages, and maps in the Senstar Symphony Client interface.
  - View a camera
    You can view a camera in each camera view panel in the Senstar Symphony Client interface.
  - View a browser
    You can view a browser in each camera view panel in the Senstar Symphony Client interface.
  - View a map
    You can view a map in each camera view panel in the Senstar Symphony Client interface.
  - View a Senstar Thin Client
    You can view a Senstar Symphony Client interface device in the Senstar Symphony Client interface.
  - View picture in picture
    You can view live video in a nested window when viewing recorded video.
  - View instant replay
    You can play historical video either 5 or 10 seconds behind live video in the in the Senstar Symphony Client.
  - Save a camera view
    You can save the layout of a docked or floating view to provide easy access to the view configuration.
  - Load a camera view
  - Open a docked camera view
    You can open a camera view in the Senstar Symphony Client interface.
  - Open a floating camera view
    You can open a camera view in an new window.
  - Add a camera view panel
    You can add a camera view panel to the Senstar Symphony Client interface. A new camera view panel appears as a floating camera view panel, but you can dock it in the Senstar Symphony Client interface.
  - Add an alarm
    You can add a manual alarm to a camera in the Senstar Symphony Client.
  - Add an alarm indicator
    You can display an alarm indicator around a camera view panel. The alarm indicator flashes for a specific time or until you acknowledge the alarm.
  - Configure a camera view panel
  - Search
    You can search video from a camera for objects and events.
  - View video by date
    You can view video from a specific date and time in a camera view panel.
  - Record video manually
    You can manually start recording video from a camera.
  - Open by address
    You can open an alarm, camera, or video from a specific time in the active camera view panel.
  - View summary video
    You can view summary video from a camera that is running a video analytic.
  - Video controls
  - PTZ controls
  - Camera controls
- Timeline
  A timeline displays activities and alarms for cameras in the Senstar Symphony Client interface. The Senstar Symphony Client includes a consolidated timeline that displays information from numerous cameras a camera timeline that displays information from an individual camera.
- Maps
  Maps can display the location of cameras, camera views, digital inputs and output devices, links, and labels in the Senstar Symphony Client interface.
- Senstar Symphony Messenger
  The Senstar Symphony Messenger allows you to send messages to any user who is logged in to the Senstar Symphony Client or Senstar 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 settings in the Senstar Symphony Client to customize the Senstar Symphony Client interface.
- 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 Senstar Symphony 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.
- Video export
  The Senstar Symphony Client includes functionality to export video. The Senstar Symphony Player can play the exported video.
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.
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Load a camera view

In the Senstar Symphony Client interface, click Camera View > Load Camera View.
Select the camera view to load.