Lost the cam

The_Crazy · Post by **The_Crazy** » Tue May 16, 2006 3:21 pm

Hi to everyone,
I have a problem with ZM. I have installed it it work perfectly, but after some time it don't contact the ipcam. But when this happens, I cannot contact the ipcam via TCP/IP the cam. The only protocol that work is ICMP (ping), but if i reboot the system it work newly perfectly.
The System is a debian 3.1 stable, the ipcam is intellinet 550710, the version of ZM is 1.22.0.
The ipcam is connected on a sendary network interface, to isolate the traffic of ipcamera from the traffic of all the network.
Someone can help me?
Sorry for my bad english

Flash_ · Post by **Flash_** » Wed May 17, 2006 7:58 am

That sounds like the camera has simply crashed and stopped responding to stream/web requests.

If that's what you mean, look for more recent firmware for the camera from the manufacturers and google for other people having the same problem to see if they've found a solution.

Sometimes it's something silly like a memory leak and you can work around it by rebooting the camera every day or hour or whatever by using a crontab entry with curl and the relevant url to force a reboot for that camera.

The_Crazy · Post by **The_Crazy** » Wed May 17, 2006 8:16 am

Thank you for reply, but I don't think that the problem is the cam, because I can connect to it from another computer when the video server don't contact the cam.
For the memory, a memory leak it seems strange. ZM is on a IBM server with 3GB of RAM ECC, and a leak could be only a wrong use of memory by ZM.
A reboot every day isn't professional

jameswilson · Post by **jameswilson** » Wed May 17, 2006 8:33 am

i had a windows server that did this but all remote connectivity stopped turned out to be the network card. Replaced that and its never happened again