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Senstar Symphony Client
The Senstar Symphony Client includes functionality to monitor cameras, manage video, generate reports, and configure alarms.
Device tree
The device tree in the Senstar Symphony Client interface lists the cameras, devices, and carousels available on the Senstar Symphony Server.
Link a camera view
You can link camera views so that multiple camera views open when you open a camera view. When you open the primary camera view, the Senstar Symphony Client opens the linked camera views in new floating views.

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.
  - Search the device tree
    You can search the device tree for cameras, devices, inputs and outputs, and carousels.
  - Display a list of users viewing a camera
    You can view a list of users who are logged in to a Senstar Symphony Client that has a camera active in a camera view panel.
  - Suspending access to video
    The Senstar Symphony Server includes functionality to suspend access to video (ban video) from a camera or camera group for a specific user group.
  - Create a camera tour
    You can create a tour of preset locations for a PTZ camera to visit in the Senstar Symphony Client interface.
  - Change IO state
    You can change the state of the outputs on devices in the Senstar Symphony Client interface.
  - Link a camera view
    You can link camera views so that multiple camera views open when you open a camera view. When you open the primary camera view, the Senstar Symphony Client opens the linked camera views in new floating views.
  - Disconnect audio
    You can disconnect the audio from a camera so that the Senstar Symphony Client does not receive any audio from the camera.
  - Hide device status
    You can hide the status of devices in the device tree.
- 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.
- 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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Link a camera view

You can link camera views so that multiple camera views open when you open a camera view. When you open the primary camera view, the Senstar Symphony Client opens the linked camera views in new floating views.

Before you begin, save at least two camera views (one primary and one secondary).

Linking camera views is an easy way to open numerous camera view panels.

In the Senstar Symphony Client interface, right-click a camera view in the Device Tree.
Click Configure Camera View.
In the Select linked view list, select the secondary camera views that open when you open the primary camera view.
To close any unused camera view panels when you open a new camera view, select Close overlapping views.
Click OK.