Quick guide on building *nix based Unifi Controller at RackSpace

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Quick guide on building *nix based Unifi Controller at RackSpace - Many of us here are enjoying Ubiquiti wireless hardware to install at our clients. Ubiquiti allows y

Many of us here are enjoying Ubiquiti wireless hardware to install at our clients. A nice feature of some "other" brands of wireless hardware, such as OpenMesh or Meraki is a centrally located "web portal" so you can easily manage all of your clients from a neutral location. Ubiquiti allows you to download/install their "controller" software for free, with perpetual updates. However, many people just install it locally on each clients network. And by default the Unifi access...

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[ajgyomber]

This is a great tutorial. Is it possible to eliminate the reprogramming of the AP by putting a local DNS record that points "unifi" to your external site?

 

[YeOldeStonecat]

I don't see why that wouldn't work. So long as you didn't have a locally installed controller also broadcasting that.

 

[paristotle]

Thanks for sharing. I've been getting deeper and deeper with these AP's .

 

[ajgyomber]

I don't see why that wouldn't work. So long as you didn't have a locally installed controller also broadcasting that.

I thought about this after posting and I think I may reconsider doing that. I'd be concerned if I had to move my UniFi controller somewhere that I may orphan the AP's and then have to go make a bunch of local DNS changes to get them talking again. With your solution, they already know where to go via hostname.

 

[skdmaster]

I have currently have an A record in my DNS pointing to my external unifi controller host on Amazon and works perfectly - only bad thing is I didn't think of it sooner and have about 10 sites deployed using the static IP from Amazon instead.

 

[MudRock]

Excellent resource. My only wish, is IF this was more friendly with CentOS/RedHat. It would be less overhead. Sucks having to spool up another server instance to do this. I know it's doable, but I hate the idea that the CentOS version is limited and requires odd Java install.