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DOCS-1054: Add session management diagram to sessions page #1754

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can it live somewhere else too? If not let's change that wording

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No it should be in orbit of the session management client in this analogy, has to be

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I think you misunderstand me the image says "The user's sessions client can live here". That implies it can live somewhere else. It probably should be "The user's sessions client lives here"

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Unless that's wrong?

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Do the heartbeats go both directions as indicated by the arrows? Or just one way?

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With default configuration, sessions are automatically managed for you with Viam's `SessionsClient`.
If you want to manage sessions yourself, use Viam's sessions management API.

The session management API moderates `viam-server`'s client network connections, like the star to `viam-server`'s planet in a solar system of application clients:
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{{<imgproc src="program/viam-session-management.png" resize="500x" declaredimensions=true alt="An analogy for Viam's session management API and viam-server's Robot APIs' partnership in managing client sessions within the Viam client ecosystem, with the API as a larger force managing viam-server's clients' connection to the robot. A star and its planet are pictured, with viam-server being the planet, orbiting the session management API but possessing many clients in its orbit itself.">}}

### The `SessionsClient`

A Viam robot has many clients because a client is anything that is receiving the information served by `viam-server` running on the robot, which includes the primary part, sub-parts, client SDKs, and more.
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