Re: [CentOS] Ubiquiti Model UAP-AC-PRO

[Lamar Owen]

On 02/27/2018 08:31 AM, Bill Gee wrote:

1) The resolution of "unifi" by DNS is to the machine hosting the Unifi
Controller software.  Is that correct?

Yes, that's correct.

How did you add an FQDN of "unifi" to your DNS?
I added a new zone to /etc/named.conf for the ZONE 'unifi' pointing to a 
host file 'unifi.hosts' containing an A record for 'unifi.' as well as 
the SOA, NS, etc records. That trailing dot is important.


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Re: [CentOS] Ubiquiti Model UAP-AC-PRO

[Bill Gee]

On Monday, February 26, 2018 11:13:33 AM CST Lamar Owen wrote:

> One of the key things to getting this to work really smoothly is to
> provide local-only, on-site authoritative DNS for the FQDN of 'unifi.' 
> Yes, as a top-level domain, the single word 'unifi' needs DNS for the
> AP's to be really happy and for AP adoption to work seamlessly without
> having to ssh into the AP individually and do a 'set-inform' to the IP
> address or FQDN of the UniFi controller.  You can do this with
> /etc/hosts, but putting the zone in there for your loacl recursive
> resolver makes it really seamless.
> 

Hi Lamar -

A few questions about this ...

1) The resolution of "unifi" by DNS is to the machine hosting the Unifi 
Controller software.  Is that correct?

2) I tried creating a cname in my DNS like this:

update add unifi 86400 cname vmserver5.billgee.local

but nsupdate gives me back a "Update failed: NOTZONE" error.  If I make it be 
"unifi.billgee.local" then nsupdate takes it without complaint.  I also tried 
creating "unifi" as an A record and pointing to the IPv4 address of the 
server.  Same return from from nsupdate.

How did you add an FQDN of "unifi" to your DNS?

I only have one access point and it is already in the Unifi Controller, so 
this is for me an academic exercise.  Others, though, might find it useful.

It seems to me the purpose of this record in DNS is to allow the access point 
to find the Unifi Controller.  Therefore, adding it to the hosts file on other 
machines is of no use.
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Re: [CentOS] Ubiquiti Model UAP-AC-PRO

[Lamar Owen]

On 02/15/2018 08:41 PM, Gregory P. Ennis wrote:

It looks like the setup requires the use of software;  they have some
packages that are ready made for Ubuntu and Debian, but not RedHat

https://www.ubnt.com/download/unifi/unifi-ap-ac-pro

Have any of you tried or succeeded in installation this on Centos 7.4?
I have several Ubiquiti UniFi access points (nitpick: they're not 
routers, but access points) on the LAN here: 2 UAP-AC-HD, 5 UAP-AC-Pro, 
and 4 UAP-AC-MeshPro outdoor units.  The UniFi controller is very handy 
for administering these access points, and, for this many over a network 
of our physical size it is absolutely necessary.  And these APs have 
proven solid; last year for the solar eclipse we provided WiFi on two 
separate systems for over 1,300 people, and both systems held the load 
(public WiFi was on a loaned Cisco Meraki system, while staff, 
volunteer, and VIP WiFi was on the Ubiquiti.  Those UAP-AC-HD access 
points are killer good!).


I rebuilt from source the RPM packages linked in the message on the 
Ubiquiti forum at 
https://community.ubnt.com/t5/UniFi-Wireless/Unofficial-RHEL-CentOS-UniFi-Controller-rpm-packages/td-p/1744595


I am currently running 5.4.16 here, but have a 5.6.x at another 
location, which is working fine, but to administer some Ubiquiti 
switches, not APs.


One of the key things to getting this to work really smoothly is to 
provide local-only, on-site authoritative DNS for the FQDN of 'unifi.'  
Yes, as a top-level domain, the single word 'unifi' needs DNS for the 
AP's to be really happy and for AP adoption to work seamlessly without 
having to ssh into the AP individually and do a 'set-inform' to the IP 
address or FQDN of the UniFi controller.  You can do this with 
/etc/hosts, but putting the zone in there for your loacl recursive 
resolver makes it really seamless.


There are also some firewalld settings to do, opening some ports. Here 
are mine for the running 5.4.16:


[lowen@dhcp-pool157 ~]$ ssh root@unifi
Last login: Mon Feb 26 11:49:12 2018 from dhcp-pool157
[root@b1dc-bc1-1-hs21 ~]# firewall-cmd --list-ports
8443/tcp 8080/tcp
[root@b1dc-bc1-1-hs21 ~]# cat /etc/centos-release
CentOS Linux release 7.4.1708 (Core)
[root@b1dc-bc1-1-hs21 ~]#

Layer 3 adoption works fine with this set of firewall ports open; none 
of my AP's have Layer 2 adjacency to the controller, so the set-inform 
URL either needs set or DNS needs to resolve the 'unifi' FQDN to the 
controller for discovery and adoption to succeed.


The 5.6.30 controller system I installed last week at a different site 
shows a larger set of ports open:

[root@c6-2850 ~]# ssh root@unifi
Last login: Mon Feb 26 12:08:12 2018 from 10.1.1.3
[root@files ~]# rpm -qa|grep unifi
unifi-controller-5.6.30-1.el7.centos.x86_64
[root@files ~]# firewall-cmd --list-ports
8443/tcp 8080/tcp 8880/tcp 8843/tcp 3478/udp
[root@files ~]# cat /etc/centos-release
CentOS Linux release 7.4.1708 (Core)
[root@files ~]#

(for what it's worth)

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[CentOS] Ubiquiti Model UAP-AC-PRO

[Paul Schoonderwoerd]

>Everyone,
>
>Have any of you installed ubiguiti wireless routers on your network?
>
>It looks like the setup requires the use of software;  they have some
>packages that are ready made for Ubuntu and Debian, but not RedHat
>
>https://www.ubnt.com/download/unifi/unifi-ap-ac-pro[1]
_>_
>Have any of you tried or succeeded in installation this on Centos 7.4?
>
>Greg Ennis
To install just the one access point, just download their app on your phone and 
configure 
it. Very easy.

For a full Ubiquity network you can install the software on a Linux machine or 
buy the 
Cloud key, same software running on a small RaspberryPi like box (needs POE 
connection). 
Makes managing the components much much easier.

Paul Schoonderwoerd
Pollux IT


[1] https://www.ubnt.com/download/unifi/unifi-ap-ac-pro
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Re: [CentOS] Ubiquiti Model UAP-AC-PRO

[Piotr Baranowski]

There is an existng repo that contains both SRPM and binary packages for centos 
7.
As the srpms are provided as well you may easily rebuild them for your other 
rpm based distro

http://dl.marmotte.net/rpms/redhat/el7/x86_64/ check the unifi-controller dirs.

I'm using those pkgs and they are flawless.

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> Temat: [CentOS] Ubiquiti  Model UAP-AC-PRO

> Everyone,
> 
> Have any of you installed ubiguiti wireless routers on your network?
> 
> It looks like the setup requires the use of software;  they have some
> packages that are ready made for Ubuntu and Debian, but not RedHat
> 
> https://www.ubnt.com/download/unifi/unifi-ap-ac-pro
> 
> Have any of you tried or succeeded in installation this on Centos 7.4?
> 
> Greg Ennis
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Re: [CentOS] Ubiquiti Model UAP-AC-PRO

[Mike Burger]

> On Feb 17, 2018, at 11:09 AM, hw  wrote:
> 
> Mike Burger wrote:
>>> On 2018-02-16 9:29 am, hw wrote:
>>> Mike Burger wrote:
> On 2018-02-16 8:16 am, hw wrote:
> William Warren wrote:
>> I would just buy a cloudkey and not have to bother installing the 
>> software
>> onto your machine directly.  If you do not have a power over ethernet
>> switch you'll need a micro USB cable and power supply adapter to run it 
>> but
>> after that it takes care of running your software for you you don't have 
>> to
>> install anything on to your machine
> 
> One would have to be insane to give the maintenance and administration of
> their wireless infrastructure out of hands.
 
 The cloudkey is a device that one purchases and runs the same management 
 software, on your network, rather than installing the software onto a 
 Linux server...it's literally the difference between an ethernet connected 
 (and powered, if you have a PoE switch) device running the software or 
 running it on a full fledged computer.
 
 There's no giving of the maintenance to someone else's hands.
>>> 
>>> You mean it´s an access point controller Ubiquity makes?  Why don´t
>>> they call it just that ...
>> Because that's not the only function...it's the control center for your 
>> entire Ubiquity Ubifi network...APs, switches, routers, I guess.
> 
> Has anyone tried it?  I´d like to know if it´s more helpful than the
> cli and the GUI built into their routers.
> 
> For the lack of documentation, it hasn´t been possible to set up things
> the way they should be, and nobody on their forum is able or willing to
> answer questions.
> 
> Thus Ubiquity is a dead end.  I can only recommend not to buy anything
> they make before they come up with decent documentation.

I'm about to deploy an entire Ubiquity network in my new house, on the 
recommendation of someone whom I highly respect in the networking arena.

I opted to purchase the CloudKey, instead of installing the RPM packages on an 
existing server, as my new situation won't afford me the same internet 
connectivity options as I've enjoyed, to this point. 

Given that and the fact that I'm still in dire need of migrating my (gasp) C5 
installation to C7, I'm moving most of my internet server functionality to the 
cloud before I rebuild my existing server.
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Re: [CentOS] Ubiquiti Model UAP-AC-PRO

[hw]

Mike Burger wrote:

On 2018-02-16 9:29 am, hw wrote:

Mike Burger wrote:

On 2018-02-16 8:16 am, hw wrote:

William Warren wrote:

I would just buy a cloudkey and not have to bother installing the software
onto your machine directly.  If you do not have a power over ethernet
switch you'll need a micro USB cable and power supply adapter to run it but
after that it takes care of running your software for you you don't have to
install anything on to your machine


One would have to be insane to give the maintenance and administration of
their wireless infrastructure out of hands.


The cloudkey is a device that one purchases and runs the same management 
software, on your network, rather than installing the software onto a Linux 
server...it's literally the difference between an ethernet connected (and 
powered, if you have a PoE switch) device running the software or running it on 
a full fledged computer.

There's no giving of the maintenance to someone else's hands.


You mean it´s an access point controller Ubiquity makes?  Why don´t
they call it just that ...


Because that's not the only function...it's the control center for your entire 
Ubiquity Ubifi network...APs, switches, routers, I guess.



Has anyone tried it?  I´d like to know if it´s more helpful than the
cli and the GUI built into their routers.

For the lack of documentation, it hasn´t been possible to set up things
the way they should be, and nobody on their forum is able or willing to
answer questions.

Thus Ubiquity is a dead end.  I can only recommend not to buy anything
they make before they come up with decent documentation.
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Re: [CentOS] Ubiquiti Model UAP-AC-PRO

[Mike Burger]

On 2018-02-16 9:29 am, hw wrote:

Mike Burger wrote:

On 2018-02-16 8:16 am, hw wrote:

William Warren wrote:
I would just buy a cloudkey and not have to bother installing the 
software
onto your machine directly.  If you do not have a power over 
ethernet
switch you'll need a micro USB cable and power supply adapter to run 
it but
after that it takes care of running your software for you you don't 
have to

install anything on to your machine


One would have to be insane to give the maintenance and 
administration of

their wireless infrastructure out of hands.


The cloudkey is a device that one purchases and runs the same 
management software, on your network, rather than installing the 
software onto a Linux server...it's literally the difference between 
an ethernet connected (and powered, if you have a PoE switch) device 
running the software or running it on a full fledged computer.


There's no giving of the maintenance to someone else's hands.


You mean it´s an access point controller Ubiquity makes?  Why don´t
they call it just that ...


Because that's not the only function...it's the control center for your 
entire Ubiquity Ubifi network...APs, switches, routers, I guess.


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Re: [CentOS] Ubiquiti Model UAP-AC-PRO

[hw]

Mike Burger wrote:

On 2018-02-16 8:16 am, hw wrote:

William Warren wrote:

I would just buy a cloudkey and not have to bother installing the software
onto your machine directly.  If you do not have a power over ethernet
switch you'll need a micro USB cable and power supply adapter to run it but
after that it takes care of running your software for you you don't have to
install anything on to your machine


One would have to be insane to give the maintenance and administration of
their wireless infrastructure out of hands.


The cloudkey is a device that one purchases and runs the same management 
software, on your network, rather than installing the software onto a Linux 
server...it's literally the difference between an ethernet connected (and 
powered, if you have a PoE switch) device running the software or running it on 
a full fledged computer.

There's no giving of the maintenance to someone else's hands.


You mean it´s an access point controller Ubiquity makes?  Why don´t
they call it just that ...
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Re: [CentOS] Ubiquiti Model UAP-AC-PRO

[Mike Burger]

On 2018-02-16 8:16 am, hw wrote:

William Warren wrote:
I would just buy a cloudkey and not have to bother installing the 
software

onto your machine directly.  If you do not have a power over ethernet
switch you'll need a micro USB cable and power supply adapter to run 
it but
after that it takes care of running your software for you you don't 
have to

install anything on to your machine


One would have to be insane to give the maintenance and administration 
of

their wireless infrastructure out of hands.


The cloudkey is a device that one purchases and runs the same management 
software, on your network, rather than installing the software onto a 
Linux server...it's literally the difference between an ethernet 
connected (and powered, if you have a PoE switch) device running the 
software or running it on a full fledged computer.


There's no giving of the maintenance to someone else's hands.
--
Mike Burger
http://www.bubbanfriends.org

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Re: [CentOS] Ubiquiti Model UAP-AC-PRO

[hw]

William Warren wrote:

I would just buy a cloudkey and not have to bother installing the software
onto your machine directly.  If you do not have a power over ethernet
switch you'll need a micro USB cable and power supply adapter to run it but
after that it takes care of running your software for you you don't have to
install anything on to your machine


One would have to be insane to give the maintenance and administration of
their wireless infrastructure out of hands.

Besides, Ubiquity makes nice devices, yet the lack of documentation makes
them pretty useless.




On Feb 15, 2018 20:43, "Gregory P. Ennis"  wrote:


Everyone,

Have any of you installed ubiguiti wireless routers on your network?

It looks like the setup requires the use of software;  they have some
packages that are ready made for Ubuntu and Debian, but not RedHat

https://www.ubnt.com/download/unifi/unifi-ap-ac-pro

Have any of you tried or succeeded in installation this on Centos 7.4?

Greg Ennis

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Re: [CentOS] Ubiquiti Model UAP-AC-PRO

[William Warren]

I would just buy a cloudkey and not have to bother installing the software
onto your machine directly.  If you do not have a power over ethernet
switch you'll need a micro USB cable and power supply adapter to run it but
after that it takes care of running your software for you you don't have to
install anything on to your machine

On Feb 15, 2018 20:43, "Gregory P. Ennis"  wrote:

> Everyone,
>
> Have any of you installed ubiguiti wireless routers on your network?
>
> It looks like the setup requires the use of software;  they have some
> packages that are ready made for Ubuntu and Debian, but not RedHat
>
> https://www.ubnt.com/download/unifi/unifi-ap-ac-pro
>
> Have any of you tried or succeeded in installation this on Centos 7.4?
>
> Greg Ennis
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Re: [CentOS] Ubiquiti Model UAP-AC-PRO

[Fabian Arrotin]

On 16/02/18 02:41, Gregory P. Ennis wrote:
> Everyone,
> 
> Have any of you installed ubiguiti wireless routers on your network?
> 
> It looks like the setup requires the use of software;  they have some
> packages that are ready made for Ubuntu and Debian, but not RedHat
> 
> https://www.ubnt.com/download/unifi/unifi-ap-ac-pro
> 
> Have any of you tried or succeeded in installation this on Centos 7.4?
> 
> Greg Ennis
> 

Yes, and I even installed on a RaspberryPi3 running CentOS 7 :-)

https://arrfab.net/posts/2018/Jan/10/using-a-raspberrypi3-as-unifi-ap-controller-with-centos-7/

So if you just want to use it on a x86_64, just get inspiration of that
blog post and adapt where needed

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Re: [CentOS] Ubiquiti Model UAP-AC-PRO

[Gregory P. Ennis]

On 02/15/2018 05:41 PM, Gregory P. Ennis wrote:
> Everyone,
> 
> Have any of you installed ubiguiti wireless routers on your network?
> 

Yup, I use one at home. I'm very happy with it.

> It looks like the setup requires the use of software;  they have some
> packages that are ready made for Ubuntu and Debian, but not RedHat
> 
> https://www.ubnt.com/download/unifi/unifi-ap-ac-pro
> 
> Have any of you tried or succeeded in installation this on Centos
> 7.4?


Yup. It works fine, and can be fairly easily packaged up as an RPM
(although I can't redistribute the package because of the licensing).


-


Thanks very much Bill and Jim 

Greg

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Re: [CentOS] Ubiquiti Model UAP-AC-PRO

[Bill Gee]

I have both a Ubiquiti router (EdgeRouter POE5) and a wireless access point 
(UniFI AP AC Lite).  The controller software for the access point can be 
installed on CentOS 7.  I found some documentation at

https://deviantengineer.com/2014/08/unifi-controller-centos7/

There is a generic Unix version which can be downloaded at

http://dl.ubnt.com/unifi/5.5.19/UniFi.unix.zip

Note that the version number has probably changed.

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On Thursday, February 15, 2018 7:41:26 PM CST Gregory P. Ennis wrote:
> Everyone,
> 
> Have any of you installed ubiguiti wireless routers on your network?
> 
> It looks like the setup requires the use of software;  they have some
> packages that are ready made for Ubuntu and Debian, but not RedHat
> 
> https://www.ubnt.com/download/unifi/unifi-ap-ac-pro
> 
> Have any of you tried or succeeded in installation this on Centos 7.4?
> 
> Greg Ennis
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Re: [CentOS] Ubiquiti Model UAP-AC-PRO

[Jim Perrin]

On 02/15/2018 05:41 PM, Gregory P. Ennis wrote:
> Everyone,
> 
> Have any of you installed ubiguiti wireless routers on your network?
> 

Yup, I use one at home. I'm very happy with it.

> It looks like the setup requires the use of software;  they have some
> packages that are ready made for Ubuntu and Debian, but not RedHat
> 
> https://www.ubnt.com/download/unifi/unifi-ap-ac-pro
> 
> Have any of you tried or succeeded in installation this on Centos 7.4?


Yup. It works fine, and can be fairly easily packaged up as an RPM
(although I can't redistribute the package because of the licensing).

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[CentOS] Ubiquiti Model UAP-AC-PRO

[Gregory P. Ennis]

Everyone,

Have any of you installed ubiguiti wireless routers on your network?

It looks like the setup requires the use of software;  they have some
packages that are ready made for Ubuntu and Debian, but not RedHat

https://www.ubnt.com/download/unifi/unifi-ap-ac-pro

Have any of you tried or succeeded in installation this on Centos 7.4?

Greg Ennis

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