Symphony Installation and Data Folders

Symphony Server

Symphony server stores three kinds of data to your hard disk.

 

  1. binary files

  2. video data

  3. configuration information which is stored in a SQL Server Express Database.

 

Symphony is installed by default in C:\Program Files\Aimetis\Symphony\. The default path for all data (log files, video, etc) is C:\Program Files\Aimetis\Symphony\data\.

Both the default installation path and default data path can be changed during installation of Symphony.

 

Below is a summary of key folders (<AppRoot> denotes installation path while <DataRoot> denotes data path):

 

<AppRoot>\_bin

Binaries for all of our executables and DLLs.

<AppRoot>\_docs

small .txt files storing alarm instructions and Aimetis.com's IP address.

<AppRoot>\_tools

contains useful tools and utilities that Aimetis Support Specialists use to diagnose system problems

<AppRoot>\WebRoot

the web files & binaries.

<DataRoot>\_footagearchive

the video data recorded from all cameras.

<DataRoot>\_images

contains a cache of JPEG images generated from the footage

<DataRoot>\_logs2

all server log files useful for debugging and diagnosing problems.  For more information, visit section on Detailed Logs.

<DataRoot>\_searches

Location of stored searches. These files will not be automatically cleaned and searches must be manually deleted by user.

<DataRoot>\_signals

The timeline data (green, yellow, red)

<DataRoot>\_signals2

XML metadata for searches and reports.

\windows\temp\config_backup\

Location for automatic backups of server configuration.

 

In addition to the above folders, Symphony server adds the following registry keys: HKLM\Software\Aimetis  

This is the installation path and licensing information.

 

It is highly recommended that the <DataRoot> folders are not on the same physical Hard Disk as Windows and <AppRoot>. This is to limit the amount of disk read and writes to the OS disk to prevent catastrophic failure.

 

Symphony Client

Symphony Client is installed by default in C:\Program Files\Aimetis\Symphony Client\.

 

Below is a summary of key folders:

 

C:\Documents and Settings\%WINUSER%\Application Data\Aimetis\

All client configuration, such as window layouts, general configuration, logs.

RegisteredFarms.xml & FarmList.xml

These files define the farms that have been registered. The default is whatever the client configuration path is set to but you can override this.

 

These above paths can be configured via the Symphony Client Settings dialog (View->Settings).

There are two (optional) variables that can be used in the path names:

 

  1. %WINUSER% represents the Windows username of the current user. This is used in the default path so Symphony can store the configuration in the current user’s application data folder.

  2. %SYMPHONYUSER% represents the Symphony username. This is only valid if credentials are required for login to Symphony.

 

If it is desired to customer prefers to keep these settings global, do not use either of these variables when specifying the paths.

 

In addition to the above folders, Symphony Client adds the following registry keys: HKLM\Software\Aimetis\AiraExplorer

 

See Also

Backup Configuration