Configuration Information

[Waldron Digital]

If you are too lazy to visit my blog page at http://blog.waldrondigital.com/2012/09/23/zoneminder-virtual-machine-appliance-for-vmware-esxi-workstation-fusion/

Here is the snippet containing the configuration info:

Config details:

Admin username is zmadmin, as is the password.
MySQL Root password is zmadmin as well.
The Zoneminder web interface username and password is admin.
There is no root password set for Ubuntu.

Access Zoneminder’s web interface at http://YOURIPADDRESS/zm

The appliance, once deployed will get an IP and DNS via DHCP. You can change the IP to static by altering /etc/network/interfaces:

sudo nano /etc/network/interfaces

Change the following lines:

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp

To (where x.x.x.x is your desired gateway and static IP):

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
address x.x.x.x
netmask 255.255.255.0
gateway x.x.x.x

Add your fully qualified name to the /etc/hosts file:

sudo nano /etc/hosts

127.0.1.1 zoneminder.yourdomain.com zoneminder
x.x.x.x zoneminder.yourdomain.com zoneminder

Optional: Add your DNS servers for name resolution (the defaults are Verizon’s DNS at 4.2.2.1 and 4.2.2.2):

sudo nano /etc/resolvconf/resolv.conf.d/tail

Changing “nameserver” entries to whatever your internal DNS servers are. The file defaults are:

nameserver 4.2.2.1
nameserver 4.2.2.2

Note: this VM template doesn’t include the Cambozola Java jar, which enables viewing of live streaming (montage) via Java. To install it:

cd /tmp
sudo wget http://www.charliemouse.com:8080/code/cambozola/cambozola-latest.tar.gz
tar xvfz cambozola-latest.tar.gz
sudo cp /tmp/cambozola-0.92/dist/* /usr/share/zoneminder
You may need to update the 0.92 portion of the above line if you download a newer version of Cambozola.

In the ZoneMinder web interface, under Options, Image, make sure to check the OPT_CAMBOZOLA box to enable it.

[Abel Abad]

Hi Waldron,
I'm trying to log in as root to Ubuntu and it requests for a password.
None of the above seem to be valid.
Do you happen to know which one might work?

Thanks