Hi All,
Thanks to the good people who have advised on the first post. This
advice has been great on getting my mindset out of redmond and into the
reality of linux logic.
Firstly the Webshop software I was looking to run was Prestashop, which
I was glad to see, runs on linux. I have been ordering various things
from "Steam Age ecigarettes"and found this to be a great system from a
customer's point of view. However I was also advised that it is not a
good idea to run a webshop with a CCTV system. However, I would believe
that both applications require a maximum of security, as CCTV cameras
around a property could also be used very maliciously (Especially if
installed inside, which is great from a law enforcement point of view).
Regarding the hardware I currently have a conexiant 4 ch bt878 card and
a chinese thing with 4 philips DAC's which I was going to try just to
try for interest (It came with incomplete windows drivers and some
rather useless windows software which was all it would work with). Once
zoneminder is set up and running, I found some nice 4-ch PCI-x cards on
ebay, but unfortunately forget the name. with the existing HW, the
conexiant had only had 1 encoder chip, so the maximum framerate was
divided by 4 plus the overhead of the time taken to switch inputs (Which
is why I would intend to upgrade later). Reason for not going for PCIE
cards was that there are relatively few PCI-X cards useful for a home
environment.
The reason to use zoneminder was the usability of such a system. From a
CCTV point of view, having the thumbnails of things that have happened
are much better than trawling through lots of consistent recordings.
It's also possible to miss things in consistent recordings. Other thing
I like is the ability to define regions for motion detection so that say
if you have a camera over a footpath, you can decide to either monitor
the footpath, your own property or both.
The model of the server is (I think) MT-M7975-B2M. RAID card:
ATB-205/32MB. Hard disk appears to be hot swappable, and does say SAS on
the label. The connector is similar to a SATA drive. However I have also
seen drives labelled SAS with a D connector of some sort so a little
puzzled. It would be great to have this firmware thanks. If it is not a
completely mad idea, I would like to upgrade the RAID controller later.
Result from # dmidecode | grep "Product Name" was: IBM eServer x3400 -
[7975B2M] - M97IP
Yes, I'll admit this was quite a deafening machine when I first heard it
powered up, but once I installed Centos 7 the fans reduced to a noise
level which were comfortable enough to work beside it. Yes I am in
Christchurch thanks.
Pardon the sermon (Answering questions from the list and hopefully
returning some useful info). I do have one question though:
1. Fresh install of Centos 7, and log in under the default user created
with "Ädmin"privileges. Can't even save a text document on the desktop
or home directory (does create folders though). It sounded like
permissions, Is there something I can look up to learn why this has
happened (Say SElinux?).
Thanks again very much for your support,
Peter Simmonds
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