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
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).
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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Thanks very much Bill and Jim !!!!!!!!
Greg
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.
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-contro...
So if you just want to use it on a x86_64, just get inspiration of that blog post and adapt where needed
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" PoMec@pomec.net 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
CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
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" PoMec@pomec.net 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
CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
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 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 ...
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.
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.
On Feb 17, 2018, at 11:09 AM, hw hw@gc-24.de 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.
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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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
CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
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-Co...
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)
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.
On 02/27/2018 08:31 AM, Bill Gee wrote:
- 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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