Unifi upgrade nightmare
Well – if you are looking to make money – suggest the Ubiquity Networks Unifi product. You can spend hours configuring it and getting seemingly no where. Then… it works. ARGGGG. OK – here are some lessons learned. Once it is up – the system rocks out. $120 or $180 (5G) per device – can’t go wrong but the setup – still cheaper than the big guys and it is easy to configure once a device is adopted. The stats are out of this world awesome and you can lock people out, VLAN etc. Here are more links that I wrote.
First, save a backup. Of course mine didn’t work – so nightmare again. I installed this at the other campus of this customer and it too was a nightmare. Here are the steps
- a) Install or upgrade (that was the ticket for me) the latest JAVA 64 AND 32 bit. Just do it – it does not have to make sense. Read the support articles they put out.
- put the path to java into your env. PATH variable
- next save a copy of your files
- once configured, put a copy of all the files SOMEWHERE OUT OF THE USERS HOME DIR (why don/t they fix this!) and make sure permissions are great
- do the upgrade
- as soon as the software comes up on the web page restore from backup
No I did the backup before I added the last unit a few months ago and I forgot to save the backup with it.
So – would it adopt? NO – follow this advice – I think I will every time for adopting via ssh. It is a little weird – but just do it. Read it first then read it again then do it – while you do the first set… command – re-read it – you don’t have to wait that long in between commands (e.g. 10 seconds). Also set the refresh rate on the web page to every 15 seconds.