I see one thing that could be smoother. We set up a couple of Unifi
APs; one here in our office, and another in a large home. The
controller was on my traveling laptop. Now that each of them is
running, I wanted to move the controller to a VM in our colo.
It seems to me that if you are logged into the active controller, it
should be a simple push-button to "move" the controller to another
running controller. Maybe you need to have some sort of session going
between controllers, but that should be relatively easy too. Or maybe
(at the most) a push-button receive mode on one controller, and a push
mode from another controller.
It does not seem "right" that you need to reset an AP (or APs) to move
the controller. Very uncomfortable with this when I have to remote into
a site in the first place, and reset an AP (or APs) in order to get them
to link to an L3 controller in the cloud. Of course, once you've moved
the controller, then you have to re-load the previous AP configuration.
bp
<part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com>
On 1/21/2015 12:12 PM, Mike Hammett wrote:
Yes, run the UniFi Controller at the colo. From there you can control
every UniFi you place everywhere.
It pulls statistics, handles upgrades, well, everything a controller
is supposed to do.
It doesn't have to be in a VPN, but that's what I do.
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Mike Hammett
Intelligent Computing Solutions
http://www.ics-il.com
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*From: *"Bill Prince" <[email protected]>
*To: *[email protected]
*Sent: *Wednesday, January 21, 2015 2:07:07 PM
*Subject: *Re: [AFMUG] WiFi for restaurant
Run it where? The colo? That seems counter productive. We want a
more-or-less continuous VPN connection between our colo and the WiFi
AP in our office? How is this good?
bp
<part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com>
On 1/21/2015 12:04 PM, Mike Hammett wrote:
So run it there.
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Mike Hammett
Intelligent Computing Solutions
http://www.ics-il.com
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*From: *"Bill Prince" <[email protected]>
*To: *[email protected]
*Sent: *Wednesday, January 21, 2015 2:03:29 PM
*Subject: *Re: [AFMUG] WiFi for restaurant
AP was not re-provisioned. She had to re-connect to continue to use
it. She said the connection just "went away". It was simple to
re-connect, just unexpected, and not what I would consider nice
behavior.
I will do a couple of controlled tests to see what is happening.
BTW - We don't have any VMs running in our office; those are all
down in
the colo.
bp
<part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com>
On 1/21/2015 11:49 AM, Caleb Knauer wrote:
> Sounds like the AP was re-provisioning? Did wifi come back up
after a
> minute or two?
>
> On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 1:58 PM, Bill Prince
<[email protected]> wrote:
>> I don't know if this is a bug or not... Our new Unifi AP has
been running
>> about 24 hours without a hitch. I started up the controller on
my desktop,
>> and my partners laptop lost connection to WiFi. I had not
pushed any
>> buttons, merely "started" the Unifi controller app.
>>
>> Is this a known issue?
>>
>> Not nice.
>>
>> bp
>> <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com>
>>
>> On 1/20/2015 11:54 AM, Josh Reynolds wrote:
>>> It runs like shit on windows. It's using Linux emulation
libraries.
>>>
>>> On January 20, 2015 10:48:12 AM AKST, Bill Prince
<[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>> The machine I first loaded it on is running Windows 8.1 (puke
BTW), but
>>>>
>>>> I didn't have a lot of choices. When Unifi didn't work, I
googled
>>>> around and found out I needed to roll back java to 7.x.
>>>>
>>>> But it's a pretty snappy machine; 3.7 GHz quad-core A10 with
plenty of
>>>> memory.
>>>>
>>>> bp
>>>> <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com>
>>>>
>>>> On 1/20/2015 11:40 AM, Josh Reynolds wrote:
>>>>> Depends on the hardware it's on, and the hardware you're
using to
>>>> manage it.
>>>>> On January 20, 2015 10:18:31 AM AKST, Bill Prince
>>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>> With all the talk, we got some of these. Put one up in our
office
>>>> this
>>>>>> morning. It seems to work OK.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Controller takes a century to load initially.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I had to time-travel back from 2115 to write this.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> bp
>>>>>> <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 1/13/2015 2:08 PM, Seth Mattinen wrote:
>>>>>>> On 1/13/15 13:49, Daniel White wrote:
>>>>>>>> I have a Unifi AC AP at my house. Have not been overly
impressed.
>>>>>>> I have two at the office. They don't do much more than
basic office
>>>>>>> wireless stuff though and seem to be fine so far. What
have you
>>>> found
>>>>>>> lacking?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> ~Seth
>>
