 All right, so the new Unify 5.7.2 stable has been released which is exciting and if you can't tell I'm excited because I like unifies we've got these deployed at lots of clients and in the big picture they are extremely trouble-free for The device and I'm I probably shouldn't even say as a qualifier for for Wi-Fi in general They are really trouble-free Wi-Fi is not something that's a known for its Ultra trouble-free-ness and everyone wants everything wireless everyone brings their own devices to the office So it's a big thing that you have to manage a lot of and I believe Unify of all the things. I've tried have made it absolutely Easier than about anyone else to set these things up So with the 5.7 release they still have a 5.6 stable release and a lot of people probably are on that and The 5.6 is supported till November of 2018, but I want to let you know here that the 5.7 release does not support these devices listed with the PQM2, UAPAC, UAPACV2 and UAPAC Outdoor you can keep those on the 5.6 controller, but they're not really not supported here And now this is going to be a super controversial thing That people are gonna get angry about that There's no longer gonna be updates and it's just how products go at some point the new feature sets just won't work on these devices So they were just going to no longer have updates for them. So that happens devices go out of cycle There is simply no way to stop people from getting angry about it, but that's just kind of how things work People it's gonna it's gonna happen with hardware over time It will still function and that's something I think it's important that they will continue to The device won't just turn off because it's not supported and there's a way you can support it They even give you a way you can pin to the old version of the software if you're running the updates until it's dead But it still works. It doesn't turn off. That's that's the way you handle sunsetting something in If you want to do mess around with these you can ask this agent to them and start hacking around with them If you want but I'm not gonna dwell on that. I'm just gonna address it Now on to the actual release update here So the release has all kinds of new fun stuff in there other features important notes known issues There's a couple real minor ones that Our airtime radio presence will not work at the radio. It's disabled if there is an SSID present These are a couple weird things. I've seen people do where they try to assign things that make no sense because Uh, the rate they didn't set up a wi-fi so there are no issues are pretty minor But they are there also don't start the scanning which we're going to show in rapid succession because it breaks I don't know why you would want to keep clicking it But I guess you know that it they were gonna fix it. I guess anyways, so that's all the known issues I we rolled this out over the weekend pushed all the updates to our clients and well a few days ago now that went from what I'm doing this video and um Yeah, that's we didn't have any issues everything went really really well All the updates did because anytime you do an update There's generally a bunch of firmware updates that come with it all the firmware updates have been pushed To the majority of our clients and no real issues Now a couple of the new features that they added is kind of neat They added the intrusion prevention systems. It's in beta kind of neat But I'm not ready because it's in beta and because it's very vague I'm not going to cover it at this time until I have more information to give you on it I'm not going to speculate on how it works until there's like a really good white paper on it And then maybe I'll do some testing But I like that they're going there with it because it's we like the unifies for some of the small offices that there's maybe a not A big budget for some of these things with a lot of small businesses to put a nice firewall And so the basic ones work because they don't have any ports open Anyway, so they're fine, but having those options or nights that they're working their way into it We're going to cover that again in a second Add virtual devices on map to plan coverage. That's really cool. We're going to cover that because I think that's one of my favorite features I've played with here Add ssh keys to authenticate devices Auto channel features on map that I'll show you that too. That's really quick new release notes in the ui kind of novel So you don't have to read them here. I guess Add ability to create and set user defined dhcp options. Nice wireless uplink support SNMP v3 If I'm not mistaken, they only had support for v1 So this is a nice enhancement if you're monitoring some of these devices via SNMP Restart devices permissions added new elite device service. Haven't really read that much into that. Maybe that'll be a separate video more language support for folks in Bulgaria Batch remove vouchers. I have not done much with the Vouchers but Most of my clients have guests with password, but not really a voucher system that you're using Ability to play historical statistics per client traffic packet signal power. That's kind of cool Link to property panel from location neighboring access points We're going to cover that too and support antenna selection for internal antenna That's pretty slick. So a lot of cool features there As you can see we're running. This is a self hosted controller We have and I'm not going to give you the whole list But we manage this for our office and all of our client networks So we're on the mic to send the latest version 5.7.2 We do not use the cloud access. We use it completely self-contained which works fine for us Now the IPS here, I don't have any usg devices to show you right now Like I said, we'll do some testing later But they do warn that when you turn on IPS to maximum throughput becomes limited So you get down to the usg being 85 and 250 for the usg pro and one gig for the usg xg 8 So it does limit some of the capabilities depending on the model I love that they put this here because it's always the question people want to know Well, if I turned it on and it will go slower Yes, but now they've actually just defined it. That's great But until I know more about them and about how that system works then it's in beta. So test it later Like so without the usg, there's not really any more things to show you here Wireless networks. Here's our wireless networks. All this is still pretty much the same Now this is where it gets pretty cool. This is the neighboring wi-fi stuff And so here's a couple and I turned on a couple more because it sees them active I just turned on some old creptastic ones. We had an recycling bin old dwrt Messed with netgears and things like that that we play with It recognizes them and it also tells you how far away they are from the other devices. So it can tell you That it sees it and what device sees it now. We actually have a couple devices here We have a The new unify hd. We're doing some testing with on an upcoming video So we've been testing in our office and we have our classic. Let me go to the devices here Lts office wi-fi, which is the the original unify ap That's been working great when using this thing for a long time So it gives insight into that now if you have a larger client with a Spreadout network it can see and tell you which ones those ap's are close to And if you didn't know unify has a really cool feature that if someone tries to name their ap the same as yours Or they try to use something like a wi-fi pineapple It detects those and warns you about them It will tell you rogue ap detected and that means someone tried to set an ap with the same username password Or try to emulate your ap. So That's definitely enhanced. So it's nice that they did some more enhancements of that kind of thing. Also Like they're giving you better client statistics as well. So you can look at the stats and historical stats for a particular client Under history and you can see Uh duration things like that. So there's more more advanced options. They've added there That's pretty cool gives you some more insight into it. Now. Let's go to the scanning feature Does that's kind of interesting too? So we're going to go over here to devices The super awesome mega ap Oh, they've also added this to uh makes it easier to clean up. So when you open a bunch of things I closed them all I can hide the property panel it little ui enhancements to make it look nicer for collapsing and things like that Uh, it still has the ability to go through and undock Then under tools rf environment, and I already did the scan This is pretty neat So you can see The details and interference reports So you can see what is interfering with it What's interfering with the 5g channels? What other it's not just noticing the ap's it can tell you where it's good and where it's bad And you can make some adjustments based on that of what channels you may want to put things on This is really neat being able to see that and understand What might be causing problems in the rf environment and adjusting the devices accordingly great troubleshooting tool And the way unify works because the controller is here and we have a connected to all of our clients remotely This is outstanding feature because you may need to adjust things or want to be able to see them I can do scans and you can't be there at the client all the time Especially when they're having a problem and we actually troubleshoot someone who had a really old doorbell system That happened to work in the 2.4 gigahertz range and it turns out if they kept bringing in the doorbell It would get wi-fi disconnect really weird we told them to upgrade their ancient doorbell system And that actually fixed the problem but being able to find it and see just massive spike of rf stuff kind of interesting that you can dig into some of that so Everything else here is pretty much the same. They do give you if you have the wireless up links To manually configure the uplink priorities that some of the added features on here Maybe i'll do a video on some of that so you can Decide which device it has priority if you're doing Failover links don't really have a lot of use case for it Most you know we hard wire everything right to the switches and you know where you go Now other tools now, this is the stuff that's really cool is the planning I just threw a generic map in here because I got lines drawn on the other one Now we're going to go ahead and add the device now you can add your devices Here's my super awesome mega ap you can I didn't set the scaling so I probably should set that Real quick so set map scale distance in so you set A scale to determine how big this office. I said this is a 300 foot office I I didn't measure and I don't know how accurate that's going to be But you're getting an idea here That once you set the scale and then you set this this determines how far the wife That's actually at the scale a little bit so Say 600 I think that's probably more accurate. So let's say it's 600 feet from there to there And now it's determining based on the coverage area of this device of what it can go through You're probably saying but it doesn't go through walls. You're right And they they've actually done this and gotten a lot better at it So you can determine the wall type and drywall cubicle concrete They have some estimations about how many dvs that would kill so let's take and this assume It's an office with drywalls in it And now it cut the wi-fi there. So you see the wi-fi now Here's what's really cool too when we move the wi-fi around you see how it breaks it up So by putting that wall there It doesn't now one little annoyance. I have one once you draw the walls not a way to clear the walls And we're going to draw a wall here We're boxing it in essentially whoops Control z doesn't work And you got to get the hand just right click it once Oh, is it this difficult? And this is how you eliminate walls this I love the feature I'm really hoping for some enhancements here because I like what they're going with this Let's add some thickness to these because this will help There we go Now the walls are a little bit easier to grab But if you set the walls as you see as a default and that's why I did that on purpose So I could show you what happens when you Um, don't make them they're hard to select. They become really really thin even when you zoom in It's hard to select the wall, but you can see what's happening here is as you add the walls It will automatically kind of Slow down the wi-fi through there. So you're like, okay, and if we add to like a wall like let's see Something that has a high loss like a brick wall So we put a brick wall here and we see how it just kills the wi-fi So you start drawing outside the building of brick walls and you get some estimations on there now This is the other part. They added was the virtual devices. So let's plan on Do they need an lr? Do they need one of these hd's? What would an lr do in the same situation? So we'll go ahead and trash that one And now we can say all right This will do this so you can play this by the way if you don't even use unify products and haven't deployed it You can just slow the software and play with this part. Um, which is really neat. So you can see that's what this device would do And then let's say and uh This one here, which is a much stronger device. Do you see how it reaches through so we can see this device And now you can plan your overlaps now This is still estimations because you don't always know what's in the walls, but it's pretty cool that it gives this Um Information on there and gives you some of the coverage also by the way People ask a lot of times why we don't always put 5g in everywhere and this is why Um, you see the difference between a 5g and a 2g coverage area is pretty significant 2g just penetrates walls better 5g does not 5g is faster So do they need range or speed or do they have devices that support 5g? We have a warehouse filled with 2g devices because they have scan guns And so we only bothered putting 2g in because that's all they need the scan guns scanning barcode Which means no big deal there's not a lot of data they scan barcode data So they don't need the speed the devices don't have 5g And we just put a bunch of them on there and it gives them better coverage But this allows you get a map of the building do a planning do your wi-fi planning like this and away you go So really cool. Now. They still have the Topology in there, which I love this feature if you haven't seen it I cover this in my more extensive video This still works fine. It seems to work faster. I don't know. I didn't see any notes that said they changed it, but it is a new version Um And the real-time moving of devices and things like that Works really really well So go back over here to the map And get rid of our virtual devices put our actual devices in here Also, just so you know On not all of every device supports this so it has to have a newer ap units or this like if you notice, uh our Unify hd the new one we have is but our original ap one is not in this list because it's They're older and they don't have the same tools so they can only make certain estimates about it just so you know Now auto channels, this is the kind of feature we're talking about here You can do this is where you can do the scan and make some determinations about this So the scan takes a little while Scan recommended scan recommended you can do this and do some calculations And then you can say pending channel changes hit apply and it can make some estimations on this So it's actually right here. You can start modifying these now because I dragged my live devices here It's actually going to provision out updates To that based on the channels that's seen around there So, uh, definitely kind of cool the way they added it in there and give you a better idea Of how that works. So this is like I said really neat how all the system works. They also added, um When you're in here, they had a little leaf thing to show you that the clients of how they're connected and if they're enabled Like I said, they also added some of the client history Statistics so you have more data collection for the clients And then you can control right here to get a link that brings you back to how you retain that data For the client in a database and like I said, this is really nice because we run the controller here We have a lot of storage We maintain a lot and that that way you can start narrowing down When someone says hey, my phone is trouble connecting or in our case of the warehouse where we have clients that use Tablets in the warehouses Same thing with a lot of transportation industry clients that we see a lot of this So we can get that history and see those devices and try to troubleshoot Which one's having a problem and when you're talking about a big building You can see which devices they're connecting to because that's where that person works with that tablet in that area And start making determinations. So once again, the new unify versions is awesome. Um Still really happy with it. Uh, the Still hands down some of the best, uh, wi-fi troubleshooting devices and being very trouble free the deployment really well with this new version I'm not worried about the sun setting thing. But, uh, just so you know, it is a thing that's going to happen They there is a list of things that are going to be deprecated over time They do have end of life dates not hard Not all hardware can be supported forever. The good news is these are very affordable And the software is free in case you didn't know this unify controller software is free So if you just want to use it as a wi-fi planning tool, play with it It's really cool. And then buy a bunch of unified devices and deploy them, uh, with with your plan This is definitely a great tool for doing now. So hopefully this was insightful. If you like to catch in here, like and subscribe Um, go ahead and get that updated to the newest release back up back up back up Please back up before you do it. Uh, make sure you're running java 8 before you load it If you're running it in linux, uh, that is a change I had to make with switch to the new version of java Because my controller's been around for a while. So it just was running java 7 because it's one of those Ain't broke. Don't fix it. Well, now I had to fix it. So it does require java 8 to please know that So all right, thanks again