This script is designed to get Alarm state from Zoneminder and send to OpenHab. OpenHab have some Switch Items set to ON when a camera go into Alert or Alarm State
It's a perl script based on this script from Zoneminder:
https://github.com/ZoneMinder/ZoneMinder/blob/master/utils/zm-alarm.pl
I got monitor handling part from this script:
https://github.com/pliablepixels/zmeventserver/blob/master/zmeventnotification.pl
#Run as daemon You can run this Perl script as daemon, using http://www.libslack.org/daemon/
Inside project you can find a script to place into /etc/init.d