I’m continuing to post technical articles from the old blog. This is a zoneminder how-to I wrote for work a while back. The most interesting thing about this article is that I got zoneminder to work with cameras that previously did not work due to their proprietary nature. The particular cameras, the Megapixel MPix13D and MPix1339WIR only work with Internet Explorer which makes getting them to work with zoneminder difficult if not impossible.  I was able to get them working though. See the details below.

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Why does Redhat disable support lm_sensors support in net-snmp? The spec file contains everything needed to add lm_sensors support but it is disabled by default.  I modified the spec file and rebuilt the RPM to enable lm_sensors on my CentOS boxes. Seems to work fine for me. I’d love to know why they disabled it though.

Here’s a great article on setting up cacti with lm_sensors:

http://www.eric-a-hall.com/software/cacti-netsnmp-lmsensors