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Senstar Symphony Server
The Senstar Symphony Server includes functionality to manage devices, security, rules, sites, and settings.
Devices
The Senstar Symphony Server supports cameras, digital input/output devices, and access control devices.
Cameras
The Senstar Symphony Server is compatible with analog and IP cameras from a wide variety of manufacturers.
Create a blank import file
You can create a blank CSV file to use for importing cameras to the Senstar Symphony Server.

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.
- Log in to the Senstar Symphony Server
  You can open the Senstar Symphony Server configuration interface in a browser.
- Senstar Symphony Server services
  The Senstar Symphony Server runs the following services.
- Devices
  The Senstar Symphony Server supports cameras, digital input/output devices, and access control devices.
  - Cameras
    The Senstar Symphony Server is compatible with analog and IP cameras from a wide variety of manufacturers.
    - Multicasting
      Multicasting allows numerous Senstar Symphony Client instances to connect directly to cameras without requiring dedicated video streams for each Senstar Symphony Client.
    - Search for a camera
      You can use filters in the Senstar Symphony Server configuration interface to search for a specific camera.
    - Add a camera manually
      You can manually add cameras to the Senstar Symphony Server in the Senstar Symphony Server configuration interface.
    - Add a camera automatically
      The Senstar Symphony Server can automatically detect cameras on the same network.
    - Add a mobile camera
      You can add the camera on a mobile device to the Senstar Symphony Server when you use the Senstar Symphony Mobile Bridge. The mobile camera must be on for the Senstar Symphony Server to receive video.
    - Edit a camera
      You can modify camera settings in the Senstar Symphony Server configuration interface.
    - Import cameras
      You can import cameras from a CSV file.
    - Create a blank import file
      You can create a blank CSV file to use for importing cameras to the Senstar Symphony Server.
    - Export cameras
      You can export the camera list from the Senstar Symphony Server to a CSV file.
    - Set a camera password
      You can set a new password that the Senstar Symphony Server pushes to the camera.
    - Move a camera
      You can move a camera to a different Senstar Symphony Server in your server farm.
  - Browsers
    The Senstar Symphony Client can display a Web page in a camera view panel.
  - Templates
    A template is a collection of configuration settings that you can apply to cameras.
  - Hardware
    Hardware can provide data that the Senstar Symphony Server can use to trigger events.
  - Integrations
    The Integrations tab in the Senstar Symphony Server configuration interface is where you add security solutions to the Senstar Symphony Server.
  - Access control devices
    The Senstar Symphony Server can use data from access control devices to trigger events.
  - Device tree
    The device tree organizes and displays devices in the Senstar Symphony Client interface.
  - Carousels
    Carousels are configurations for video panels in the Senstar Symphony Client interface that can loop through multiple cameras and display video for a set time.
- Security
  Security settings on the Senstar Symphony Server allow you to configure authentication for users, set and change permissions for users and groups quickly, and add watermarks to video.
- Rules
  The Senstar Symphony Server can generate alarms from rules. Rules include events, action sets, and schedules.
- Licenses
  License settings for the Senstar Symphony Server allow you to view and refresh licenses.
- Settings
  The settings for the Senstar Symphony Server allow you to configure servers, general settings, email notifications, health monitoring, Senstar Enterprise Manager integration, updates, and backup and restore.
- Analytics
  Senstar Symphony video analytics provide real-time alerts, smart video search, and reporting.
Senstar Symphony Client
The Senstar Symphony Client includes functionality to monitor cameras, manage video, generate reports, and configure alarms.
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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Create a blank import file

You can create a blank CSV file to use for importing cameras to the Senstar Symphony Server.

The blank import file includes instructions for adding and importing cameras.

In the Senstar Symphony Server configuration interface, click Devices > Cameras.
Click Add Cameras.
Click Create Blank Import File.

The Senstar Symphony Server saves a file named import.csv to your download location.