 Tom here from Lauren systems and unified network application version 7.376 was released just a couple weeks ago today Is December 7th of 2022 and because I've been running it a bit I wanted to follow up and do a review on it now What I won't be reviewing is some of the new VPN features because I still don't recommend the unify routing devices and A lot of people seem to be a little upset by this as I can read through the forums and see lots of Upset unify dream machine pro users and that's because a lot of these new features that are mentioned in here Which will go over briefly like the updated VPN support which technically would make my video where I said Unify has a weird way of making VPNs that video is linked down below They only updated the unified dream machine SE to get these new features So if you have a unified dream machine pro, which is really not that old of a product here in 2022 It's only a few years old It sounds like these features may not be coming to you because they're not going to go to the 3.0 unify OS with the older dream machines now if someone can find a link to prove me wrong Please leave it in the comments or let me know how to find it But after some searching I just keep finding posts on reddit and inner forms or people who seem to be quite aggravated that They're dream machines that are not the SE version Don't appear to be able to get any of these updates now They can get the new network application version 7.376 They just don't get any of the new VPN features and some of the things that well are the reasons why I don't really recommend any of the unify routing devices so I wanted to throw that out there in the beginning and mostly what I'm be focusing on is how we use it as a Self-hosted multi-site controller and how we manage our clients with it Which is going to include the APs and switches I have a few other videos where I've kind of discussed this and I also have a tutorial Because the big requirement for 7.3.76 is the Java 11 And that's why I made an install video to show you how to install the self-hosted controller either setting it up fresh Or if you want to restore from backup But basically I recommend Following that video before you do an update or read through the forums There's ways you can remove the old Java version and then install the new Java version and update There's a few files you have to delete Which is why I made a much simpler shorter video of just reinstall restore from backup and all your settings should be good now before We dive into the details video. 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This is because of an upcoming migration from Unify OS 1.12 to 2.4. Please note They didn't say to the version 3 as I noted earlier But this is another thing if you're using the older Cloud key the first gen cloud keys those are now a dropped and I think they should have been dropped before you even went to 7 There's people may have a debate about that, but those things are really slow They've been around for a long time So I think they had a good life and a good run, but their time has come and they're just a little bit too slow and not powerful enough to Really host and run this application now if we start scrolling down here the Things we'll talk about in a second will be in the UI changes But this is also where you do require if you're using the SC that Unify OS 3.0 This is that reference I made earlier about the new VPN features that there are a highlight of this for their routing equipment are Exclusive to things that are running the Unify OS 3.0 as in the unified dream machine I see currently if I'm not mistaken it also rules out their USG line as well because it also doesn't run the Unify OS 3.0 Now there's a long list here And I'll leave this list for you to read through but let's actually talk about what it looks like now One of the first things I noticed when we switch to the new version is this I'm gonna blur out my client names in here But they made this what's just a nicer scroll So you when you go up and down for the sites instead of them just kind of Spanning the screen and they do have the search here so we can switch pretty quickly For example right to my house and it's just a little bit faster a little bit snappier after I updated it Maybe that was like that from a previous version for the speed But overall it's it made a nice little bit enhancement to the UI here the next thing we're gonna talk about is going over to settings And they have a restore defaults right here me zoom in Restore defaults now the restore defaults is something we end up doing quite a bit for people Unify giving people a lot of knobs to turn and a lot of options to change frequently means the installation problem They run into is a non-default setting for reasons. I'm not really clear someone in some forum said Hey, if you turn all these knobs it will well fix it or make things faster not everything needs to necessarily be tuned So this is nice when you're not sure what you did you goofed around with settings You can just click the restore defaults and put everything back to a default setting And one of the other changes they made is over here in the client listing So we're gonna search for one of the clients here like Brett desktop We find the results we can click on it And then we can look at the insights and the insights will tell you Brett desktop has connected to default default network Is what it's referring to this will also work for Wi-Fi devices also gives you a pivot point here for Seeing all and this is another change she made so here's a list of actually all the different devices as they've kind of moved Around or connected and disconnected from different networks or different wireless I like the way each one of these let you pivot so we can say this device has roamed from LTS office 6 to the hallway LCR and you can click on any of these and will bring you to that point So they just made a lot of nice little UI changes to make this more convenient So if we go here back to the Brett desktop or like Pi KVM is right here if we look over here to the Pi KVM It brings us right to the device It leaves the last search. We're gonna go ahead and reset the search and just put this over here Pi KVM and the insights. Here's all the connected disconnects from that particular device This is actually really nice in terms of UI elements being all connected to make it easy to go back and forth To find each thing you're trying to trace out or when you only have this Maybe you want to start building a list of what it is and what device this may be I may not know the name of it yet, but this kind of gives you some of the ideas It clearly doesn't want to give up its DNS name or it's not logged in here Now I do use pfSense as my firewall and that is also why some of the DNS information may be missing within the controller itself Because it's not using one of the unifier routing devices, but nonetheless. It's nice that they've Built these issues built these in so I can go through and look at what's connected to each device and kind of get a quick History of any of those devices or clients that were connected to them now going back over here to system logs You can also see critical updates that are in there admin activities that were done and who did them client and access point and the access point logs to tell you what channels were changed because I Have it on an auto scan So it's going to say the system has moved from channel 112 to channel 100 to avoid detected interference I leave these on with the auto and I haven't had a problem But nonetheless, I like the fact that it does offer this insight so you can see what's going on and what was changed in there And then of course correlate that to any other logs You may have for people experiencing problems the next let's go over here to system settings to system advanced And we want to have the debugging tools now the debugging tools are the terminal connections So I want those on and for some reason those somehow got turned off through one of the updates And it was also moved to here I remember where that was before but this is where that option is if you want to name your debug terminals be Re-enabled and they've also don't have the debug term anymore where you can just click the IP address I'm not sure when that went away But that was actually one of the things I used to like when they had that as an option You can just click the IP address that would open up a debug terminal I think when they moved to the new UI that went away But if we go to settings we go down here at the bottom We can now click it here and it opens up a debug terminal This is actually really helpful when you're using the controller to be able to get inside of another network and have instant Access to a command line or look at some of the details on any of the vices You can do this. You can actually go into var log go through and look at messages and Dive deeper into something if I need to now generally I push things to assist log server to make that easier But I like the fact that I have access to the debug terminal right here without having to actually SSH into each device If I don't need to now the next change you made is in The way you handle port management with the devices and the switches So if we go here to this flex mini we can look at the ports We can pull up the port manager for the flex mini and then we can see it's connected to port 8 for this device So then we can go port 8 back rack click on ports go back over to port manager and now we're at these ports What if I need to keep tracing where that was up? Well, this is up linked here to the production rack So then we can go over here port manager and now we're at the port manager for the production rack I actually like the way they allow you to pivot to the different switches So if you're trying to sort this out once again This is that UI element enhancement that I'm seeing and this is me not hating anymore on the new UI interface I actually think they finally got it really polished up Well these cross-linking to make resources easily clickable so I can go between Either another switch if I click here or in this case This is actually going to pull up the LTS UN VR Pro that we have so I can actually see the devices that are attached to there and get those insights as well So it's not just for switches and then I can figure out where this device is connected to and keep pivoting back and forth So whatever this device is this is what it's plugged into and then pivot back and forth now We're back to the USW pro aggregation Overall, I do really like these improvements and I've actually found this to be really stable and work well Now if you're having trouble getting your older version of unified network application updated That's why I made that video that is linked down below that shows you how to do a fresh install and just grab the backup from your old one Throw it into the new one and it restores fine. This is how I did mine I know there's ways you can go through delete some of the Java Libraries remove the old version Java and install the new Java 11 get it working, but I didn't really have a need It's just a basic VM that just hosts my unified network application Now we are using the multi site instance because we use a central server that we host to manage all the clients that well We manage their networks for and it works perfectly fine for that But none of them really have to deal with any of the unify routing. It's just managing switches and access points So it's still a pretty lightweight VM overall to be able to manage that many sites in a single controller Now as far as if you want to host it in the cloud and doing that I am working on some updated videos for that Hopefully depending on how many comments I get for people that want to understand that better I will talk about how to set up your own cloud multi-host controller and set the DNS and everything else Comments asking me to do it often encouraged me and drive for each of your videos on this channel But anyways leave your comments and concerns down below I'll leave links so you can read through and see all the different bug fixes and changes because there's a lot More than I took the time to cover it just in this video If there's something you want me to cover more in depth about unify Let me know or head over to our forums for a more in-depth discussion And thank you for making it all the way to the end of this video If you've enjoyed the content, please give us a thumbs up if you would like to see more content from this channel Hit the subscribe button and the bell icon If you'd like to hire a short project head over to Lawrence systems calm and click the hires button right at the top To help this channel out in other ways There's a join button here for YouTube and a patreon page where your support is greatly appreciated for deals Discounts and offers check out our affiliate links in the description of all of our videos including a link to our shirt store Where we have a wide variety of shirts that we sell and designs come out? 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