One Adam-12, we have a suspect. He is armed and presumed (very) dangerous...
One more Lite 8 POE on the way.
One Adam-12, we have a suspect. He is armed and presumed (very) dangerous...
One more Lite 8 POE on the way.
I would take the opprotunity to hook the ultra up to your network and start setting it up then when It is time to switch everything out you just have to hook up the wires.
I suspect you could preconfigure most stuff on the ultra and the new switches without any hosts on it.
Yeah, I'm going to go that way. From what I've read the Ultra will complain about the missing APs but will still allow full setup of the stuff on the ER that I have to move over manually, like DHCP res, Firewall rules, Wireguard, etc.
Going to hook up the Ultra, restore a backup from the Network app running on the Pi, then connect all the new switches in sequence as they would be "in real life," and get everything configured. Then should just be a matter of substituting switches at various locations around the house, and I believe I'll have to do a Set-Inform to tell the APs that there's a new controller (Ultra) in town.
I really want my wife to vamoose while I'm working on it so I can focus and not deal w/"helpful suggestions." Should have done this before she retired...
Any status update on how things went?
@danabw 10 minutes after power up…
If it went as smoothly as my update (with your assistance), then there isn't much to write about!
That's a big assumption that everything did in fact power up.
it has been 4 hours... Has anyone sent the cops to go and check up on @danabw
I am worried about @danabw. It has been too quiet for far too long. I hope his wife didn’t take him out!
That's crying for joy, right?
Oh, there's always something...
Amazingly it did, and the last piece (final POE switch) arrived today just in time to be put into place, which was a lucky bit of shipping timing.
They just left...thanks to whoever called them, they brought donuts!!
There was one moment of "WTF?!" when she saw all the gear laid out on a couch connected together (my dry run). Not (surprisingly for her) "How much did it cost," but a "Who's going to manage this when you're gone!?" moment. Not sure I liked the tone of her question, I'm not planning on being "gone" any time too soon.
I'm declaring victory (mostly)! I'm not done, but I ended up w/a working network, all HW installed/placed/connected, wife's computer works, and she can access her files in our NAS, and both TVs/streaming appears to work. Yes, wife's computer works and she can access the NAS were at the very, very top of my list.
A fun but unpredictable day. Since wife had gotten called in for jury duty I thought she'd be gone at least most of the day, making today perfect for the network swap. Had a couple of morning errands I couldn't put off but assumed I'd have all afternoon. Then wife appears at noon less than an hour after really got started! Things were torn up, network down, card table I had set up in the office covered w/old and new gear. It was not pretty. Luckily turned out she had a club meeting that she could now go to, so she left and was gone for two and a half or so blissfully quiet hours.
Things are still a bit sloppy at this point due to me starting late and rushing a bit when time got compressed. Some of my old disconnected switches are sitting near/or on top of the new ones, and still have to do all my IP reservations and firewall rules, configure WireGuard, tweak VLANs, etc.
I'm on 8.6.9 of the network app, waiting for 9.x to simmer for a bit before updating so no zoney firewall stuff yet, @stephen_nutt. Hah!
Surprisingly Unifi seems to call DHCP reservations "Fixed IP" addresses in the Network app!). I wish I could edit all my IP reservations in in one place in a table the way you can in the EdgeRouter OS. In the Network app it looks like I'll have to go into each device and set it's "fixed IP" there, one-by-one. Or am I missing something?
Thanks for the support, I appreciate it!
Congratulations! It is nice having it all managed from one single web interface.
I am running 9.x and have simply chosen to not convert over to the Zone FW yet. You can simply take a backup of your Network App (which is slightly different that a backup of the full UCG console - I would grab copies of both, just to be safe!) Then switch to Zone FW to try it out. If its not for you, you can revert to the backup.
Just like on Hubitat, the Firmware (i.e. Network App version) is different than the Backup data. You can revert versions of firmware, Network App, etc... using the CLI, IIRC. I have actually never needed to do so. I have reverted the firmware version on my Access Points a few times, but that can easily be done from within the Network App.
Not missing anything that I know of.
Anytime!
That is an understatement...It is SO nice not to have to jump from EdgeOS to Network app to each Netgear switch config pages. Just loving the integration so much.
Not sure exactly which is which in the app:
In Settings>System>Backups: Config Backup
In Control Plane>Backups: System Backup
And then this option in the Config Backup section: The "Console Cloud Backup" link took me back to the "Systems Backup" screen.
Admittedly I'm a bit confused about what's what, other than the Config Backup, which is what I used from my old controller in my setup today.
When I switched from an ERX to my UDM the Wi-Fi suffered until I turned off the Wireless Meshing.
Not sure how it ended up enabled, but it's working much better with it disabled.
What's weird that I found is that in order to set a fixed IP for Unifi switches, you have to enter any custom DNS that you're using. For example, I have two instances of PiHole so every time I set a fixed IP for a switch, I had to enter the two IP addresses of PiHole even though that's set somewhere else that I assumed was global.
What happens when you turn on wireless meshing is that when your internet provider goes down your AP's stop accepting requests because the mesh function need to determine path back to the root router. I turn it off on my Unifi config because there is a minute between failover on the backup WAN when primary WAN goes offline and I start losing weather station data along with SimpliSafe reporting that it can't connect to Wifi.
I do wish that Unifi would come up with a better way of doing this.
This is the backup of your network config.
This is the full backup of the system/device. Anything under Control Plane is generally for the device/console itself.
Ubiquiti somewhat screwed the pooch on this, in my opinion. Things were a bit easier and cleaner before they moved the console stuff to Control Plane.
It is 100% normal. Switches and APs, as well as other devices like cameras, do not necessarily need to pass through the same DNS servers as other devices. They aren't doing anything that needs to be filtered by PiHole, etc., so you have the option to set the DNS for them to something else. In fact, you can get by without setting a DNS server for these devices if you so choose. This also doesn't mean you can't set them to use your PiHole. It is a matter of preference.
Wireless meshing is only needed if you have an AP that cannot be physically connected via ethernet and requires a different AP for it's downlink.
I, for example, have a U6 Extender in my setup to get a better signal to my G4 doorbell. That device can only connect via mesh to another AP. If configured properly, meshing works well and should have no negative impact on your network.
Not in my Unifi settings. If I enter a Fixed IP Address, the DNS server becomes a required field. However, from your description, it sounds like I could enter anything.
I would enter the UniFi Gateway's IP address as the DNS server for all UniFi hardware (switches, access points, cameras, etc...) that you want to use a FIXED IP address with.
The UniFi hardware does need a DNS server in order to manually download firmware directly from the UniFi servers. Thus, I would not do anything that might possibly prevent those devices from access the Internet, such as not configuring the DNS server entry or even routing those devices through a PI-Hole for DNS services.
PI-Hole is used to prevent end users from seeing ads, malicious sites, etc... End users are not on the console of a network switch or AP accessing the Internet.