This ZoneMinder appliance will help you set up your own CCTV server for monitoring your room, home, company, etc. This appliance will work best with IP cameras.
Please note, that if you want to use analog cameras, you probably will not be able to run it in virtual environment as you will not have access to your capture card in virtualized environment.

To enter ZoneMinder, open your favourite browser (remember that IE is NOT your favourite ;)) and go to: http://x.×.×.x/zm where x.×.×.x is your appliance IP address.
Since version 0.5.9 you will automatically be redirected to HTTPS. Sending username and password in plain text is not such a good idea. The default certificate is selfsigned so your browser will warn you that it’s insecure. Buy yourself an SSL certificate or make your own selfsigned by issuing:
# openssl req -new -x509 -keyout lighttpd.pem -out lighttpd.pem -days 365 -nodes
and store it in /etc/lighttpd/certs/ directory.
Remeber that certificate should be readable only by root! (issue # chmod 400 lighttpd.pem)
(do NOT use this default certificate on production!)

ZoneMinder users (for webinterface – not for linux console! Console users are at the bottom of the page):
admin, password: admin
user password: user

There is now added one sample monitor, configured to work with Foscam FI8908W IP camera. All configuration, including pan/tilt script is based on tutorial by Dave Harris: http://bit.ly/ar3XXe
You will probably have to change IP address, both in Source and Control tabs, and password for the camera, if it’s not a standard one (which is blank, with user admin). If so, you will also have to change it in the script which can be found at:
@/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10.0/ZoneMinder/Control/FoscamFI8908W.pm @

Also, this appliance now uses lighttpd instead of heavy apache2 – thanks to fixxxermet from #zoneminder

Comments, cloning, and constructive criticism encouraged :)