Re: [Ubnt_users] New airControl

Josh Reynolds Tue, 02 Dec 2014 22:02:23 -0800

Changing passwords is a bit more complicated last I checked, but it wasa few years ago.

The WebUI uses crypt() with a basic salt and is limited to 8 chars.Normal linux "passwd" can't generate those if I remember correctly.


josh reynolds :: chief information officer
spitwspots :: www.spitwspots.com

On 12/02/2014 08:11 PM, Nicholas Sarakas wrote:

We use a few different things. For Ubiquiti firmware upgrades enmasse, we use AirControl 2. We do end up doing a lot of manualupgrades when a field tech is on site or while the customer is on thephone with tech support. As for monitoring, we have our home-brewedNORM that pulls everything via SSH and monitors/graphs the basics(RSSI, Noise, AirMax Qual/Cap, SNR, & Rx/Tx Rates) as well as apulling most of the basics such as LAN/WLAN stats into a table.Everything is stored so we can compare what a customer looked likelast spring last spring when the trees were blooming vs this spring orsee that their signal suddenly tanked 3 weeks ago around the time wechange a frequency or a customer got a new router, etc. We try tokeep our configs as basic as possible so that mass config changes arekept to a minimum. Since most anything can be done with SSH onUbiquiti gear, if it came down to anything as simple as changing thepassword on all SMs, we'd use a Linux script that would bash (sorryfor the pun, I couldn't help myself) away at everything. ;)


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On 2 December 2014 at 23:00, Josh Reynolds <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:


    they use powercode for upgrading devices, mass config changes, etc?

    If so that's cool, we've got a 25k procera box that arrived in our
    office yesterday and we're about to start our powercode migration
    next week! :)

    That said,we have a very functional IPOQUE DPI traffic shaper for
    sale if anybody wants one. prx5g

    josh reynolds :: chief information officer
    spitwspots ::www.spitwspots.com  <http://www.spitwspots.com>

    On 12/02/2014 07:41 PM, Josh Luthman wrote:


    Jab has an old version of Powercode

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    On Dec 2, 2014 11:25 PM, "Jay Weekley" <[email protected]
    <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

        What do companies like Jab and Wisper use?


        Josh Reynolds wrote:
        > As long as it's something simple with a rudimentary API to
        build off
        > of, I see no reason why multiple polling/control types
        couldn't be
        > designed.
        >
        > Select a subnet, select types of polling to perform (ubnt
        discovery,
        > whatever cambium uses, etc), select admin/password for
        groups of
        > devices, and add them to the database. Once in the database
        their is a
        > /int pollingFrequency = x; /and /str pollType = y;/ and /str
        > pollTemplate = z;/, where pollType could be "snmp, ssh,
        agent" and
        > pollTemplate could be "ubnt,cambium-ePmP,mikrotik", etc.
        > josh reynolds :: chief information officer
        > spitwspots ::www.spitwspots.com <http://www.spitwspots.com>
        > On 12/02/2014 10:15 AM, Mike Hammett wrote:
        >> My thought is that as we grow, we'll have different types of
        >> equipment out there...  UBNT, MT, Cambium, Mimosa,
        Netonix, SAF,
        >> Exalt, servers, etc. In my 36 hours of experience, it
        seems like that
        >> would be the platform to build off of. *shrugs*
        >>
        >>
        >>
        >> -----
        >> Mike Hammett
        >> Intelligent Computing Solutions
        >> http://www.ics-il.com
        >>
        >>
        
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        >> *From: *"Josh Reynolds" <[email protected]
        <mailto:[email protected]>>
        >> *To: *"ubnt users" <[email protected]
        <mailto:[email protected]>>
        >> *Sent: *Tuesday, December 2, 2014 1:08:12 PM
        >> *Subject: *Re: [Ubnt_users] New airControl
        >>
        >> Via Adam?
        >>
        >> Not likely.
        >>
        >> I'm doing some work on making sure the new UBNT MIBs are
        clean and
        >> standards based. That may not be a required part of the puzzle
        >> though-- snmp is pretty slow. Aircontrol works by
        authenticating
        >> initially as admin, exchanging ssh keys, and then using
        the device
        >> itself to poll stats and send them upstream (I believe,
        it's been
        >> awhile since I've looked into this).
        >>
        >> I know the proper commands to pull the stats we need for
        graphing and
        >> everything, and we know the ssh commands for upgrading and
        things
        >> like that.
        >>
        >> Diagnosing the config isn't hard, although the order of
        the config is
        >> often jumbled from device to device and version to
        version-- but it's
        >> mostly the same.
        >>
        >> Just need somebody who can create a basic webpage with
        auth, load up
        >> x devices per page, a basic search function, and some
        sorts for
        >> organizing CPEs per AP MAC.
        >>
        >> Scheduling would be nice eventually.
        >>
        >> This can't be that hard. I used to do stuff far more
        complicated than
        >> this, but I haven't done any webdesign/css/php since like '99.
        >> josh reynolds :: chief information officer
        >> spitwspots ::www.spitwspots.com <http://www.spitwspots.com>
        >> On 12/02/2014 09:55 AM, Mike Hammett wrote:
        >>
        >>     Think we could get enough stuff into Observium? It
        already pulls
        >>     OS\package versions. So it knows what's running on it. It
        >>     supports external apps. Maybe we could get a firmware
        push system
        >>     into it.
        >>
        >>     It has Rancid to pull configurations. Rancid can also push
        >>     commands out to all of the devices. Setup a UBNT
        config file
        >>     format for the pulling and setup  a method to push
        configurations
        >>     back out?
        >>
        >>
        >>
        >>     -----
        >>     Mike Hammett
        >>     Intelligent Computing Solutions
        >> http://www.ics-il.com
        >>