Well recently I have been very interested in some aspects with securty at work. I have been testing and reviewing some great DVR systems that run on linux. So I went ahead and added a VPS to my OpenVZ server and turned up and installed Zone Minder. So far I have not been able to get the two cameras hook up and allow Zone Minder to monitor for motion, yet I still find it amazing at the quality of these cheaper cameras. I have done security systems before and usually they require a box of 3 to 5 thousand dollars and 30+ man hours just to setup and test the cameras. From this point you would be required to then setup users, remote access, and train the end user all while this hardware you have it on is usually a single drive system and really does you no good other than to have a over view of what ever you want to watch.
So right now my server is setup as the following:
- Intel Pentium D 3.)GHz (dual core) CPU
- 8GB DDR2 ECC Memory
- 160GB Primary Drive
- RAID-1 500GB /vz Drive for all VPS hosts
- 500GB /backup Drive for backups
- Janky Hot Swap Case
So my research finds Zone Minder to be a little resource intensive but this server dosen’t do much so I press on and install it anyways. I followed the same instructions you can find at http://www.zoneminder.com/wiki/index.php/CentOS#Step_Five_-_Installing_ZoneMinder_1.23.3 Wiki for Great Justice!