 I'm here from Lauren systems and unify 7.161 has been released. Well, a little bit ago But I want to talk about the big changes that came within it and those changes affect a lot of things and now Well, make some of my older videos a bit irrelevant when I say this feature is not supported They have added a lot more features in terms of like policy routing But I want to talk a little bit about the details of how it actually works because saying it has it and Doesn't have the functionality you're looking for is a really important distinction So I want to talk about how some of these new features have been implemented There's also a very welcome feature in the new UI. We had it in the old UI Which was the ability to select multiple ports to adjust them so you can make a group change to a block of ports on a Unify switch or even all of them at once But they took that out in the new UI, but this time when he brought it back They just didn't just give us a feature back. They really polished it up and put it back really nice So I want to talk about some of these new enhanced features that they've done It works quite well in a few details in case you're wondering where something's missing including the Wi-Fi Statistics page they added and how to get that turned back on because if you're like me, I don't know when but at some point I may have checked this little box that you need to recheck So we'll be talking about where that is before we dive into details of this video. Let's first Are you an individual or company looking for support on a network engineering storage or virtualization project? Is your company or internal IT team looking for someone to proactively monitor your system security or offer strategic guidance to keep your IT systems operating smoothly? 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This is interesting But there's a little bit of details that it doesn't work well with vpns Which is an important policy the way it does but we'll show how that works as well Add switch port insights and bulk port editing. This is a really cool feature. They added I like the way they brought this back improve search filters devices notification improve traffic statistics improve Wi-Fi statistics. I'm going to talk about this in the way they enhance the UI I just like the way they've really done the dashboard and I'm finding myself Well really liking the new changes they've made to it I was definitely harsh on it in the beginning But it was also a weird deployment because it incrementally got a little bit better But we kept having to switch to the old UI. I don't find myself going to the old UI now I can pretty much find everything I need in the new UI, which is great Now there's a lot of little things they've added such as add mimo common for clients page add ap widget for unified clients And a lot of details and bug fixes and I don't have time to go over all of them But of course I'll link to this so you can read through them Let's actually take a look at these changes The first thing I want to mention is my dream machine is running unify os 1.12.19 As you can see it's up to date This is a really new release and this already updated because I have an auto update to that new release a 7.165 But the teleport vpn was there in the 7.161 as well Now let's talk about teleport vpn people are telling me tom you said there's no wire guard support And as I said in my old videos, I did say there wasn't proper wire guard support And now this becomes a fuzzier topic the teleport vpn uses wire garden back end. That's great Except it has a dependency on ubiquities cloud to work. So here is the teleport dot UI dot link Now the goal at ubiquity appears to be to really simplify it That's a little tagline and slogan and by making things Invisible to the user how the back end is working does a great job of simplifying it But the problem comes in of it's still dependent on their cloud and it doesn't have a normal wire guard configuration menu in here This is a bit challenging So you have to come into it understanding that it's dependent on their system And at present the teleport system only supports the wi-fi mine app on mac os ios android here So you're not able to simply use this as a standard wire guard vpn But you can use it for the app and it's slick Maybe if there's enough requests, I'll do a video on it, but it's pretty straightforward You copy the link send it over to your system that well, I should say phone right now Eventually, I believe under roadmaps to add it to other systems for connectivity But it's still to me. It's kind of strange that it forces a dependency on there And this is something I also want to note the Not in the notes, but really important feature that is available now or feature Removed feature maybe they don't force you to register the councils anymore. I think that's great So they've removed the registration for the unified dream machine They've removed the force registration for the cloud key But and this is where I'm not here to slam you make with you for this But this is just the changes they made great and thank you for You know putting back the way we wanted it set up because it used to not require registration Or had a way to bypass it and now they put the way to bypass it But for those of you asking things like well, what about uid and open vpn? I'm still doing some testing with uid But uid is Really neat and interesting to tie identity management to the unify system in order to easy Deploy different connections so you can you know check users and set things up on their phone and say connect to this wi-fi But back to my problem I have now what you have to set up uid with their cloud platform to talk to your device And I'll be diving into this in a later video In the future when I've kind of sorted a few more things out. I think it's clever It'll even generate an open vpn config file for linux. I've tested this But there's not a way to do it through the dream machine itself You have to use their cloud to talk to your ubiquity system Which requires a tie-in and registration again in order to get the open vpn registration to create an ovpn file I you know know they're removing this registration forcing which is great But then to use these advanced features you kind of have to go back to being registered and tied into their cloud Now from a simplicity standpoint, I think they did a good job of making it easy So you can be less technical and get this deployed Which is a big goal unify has and there's not an easy way to do that without a cloud tie-in Because then people would have to understand more things about how to forward ports and set things up in a lot more details So I think it's a good place for going with it But for those of us that want more advanced features and want to be able to put our hands on them without tying it to someone else's cloud That makes a big difference. It's also of note. Unify doesn't have the clearest of road maps Which makes people like me who have relationships with our client built on long-term support Recommending this being a little hesitant because if I don't know exactly when the end of life on this product is How do I build it to integration? And if ubiquity decides to change your mind of how long they plan to support the product We then have to re-engineer a completely different solution later This is just the perspectives I have on it And I wanted to at least mention this with the way the vpns are handled on there So you can check the box that they have open vpn support or wire guard support But because it currently appears to be not your standard wire guard support. It's tied to the ubiquity cloud for everything It's a little bit Concerning now the next thing I want to talk about here on the dream chain. It's the traffic routes This is actually great. They're adding policy management But we'll go down here to teleport and vpn and we'll scroll down and we see that I've got a couple of vpns activated Unlike my test network right here If we go over to traffic management and we want to create traffic routes They've done a great job. I can go domain name ip address internet I can make specific changes and say I would like the source all devices default devices You can you know build groups and set things up here Set up do I want them to go out as a policy over the default wan one or the backup wan two But here's the issue While the ability is there to select policies and websites and choose backup wan or your main wan There is no ability to choose vpn The problem becomes when we have business clients who have for example a unified dream machine And then they want to connect a site to site with a another Like ip sec vpn Maybe that site to site doesn't need to have all of the traffic Send over there so a split tunnel so you're not sending everything back hauled back to the main site But you need certain websites because of ip restrictions to go through that that option is missing The second use case is missing Then this is what a lot of people ask about especially in the more advanced home users Um, maybe they want to hide certain traffic and they want to send it over a privacy vpn There is no way to set policies to set out bound vpn routes So this becomes kind of a challenge to do that Officially through the ui So i'm going to always point out that there's ways to modify the system from the command line And i'm always quick to point out that by doing so you Can eventually break the ui because if you do some of the ui it breaks the command line or vice versa By disconnecting it so the idea is to eventually because this is a good start to have the policy routing as they do But also add the features so you can tie it to policy route over a vpn So now i can say they do have policy routing but not policy routing for vpn And that's why the details matter so much about when you're setting these up to make sure it fits your use case If this is not a use case you have and you just want to be able to split traffic over Your main wan or your secondary wan well that feature is now available in the unify dream machines and well within the unify 7.165 software Now let's talk about some of the ui element changes. I really like that they have the Connection 5 gigahertz wi-fi 5 2 by 2 memo So you have more information than you did before that is easily displayed so you can see how things are connected I just really like the way they keep enhancing this ui And the bigger enhancement though is right here if we get to looking at something like this us pro 24 poe And we click on it We have under ports a new option called port Insights and this lets us look at all the different ports and more of the details Including where you have things plugged in whether or not they're poe and being able to select group support So if we select all of these like this I can then if I want change all the profiles to any of them Now one ui element. I really wish they would fix is when you hit any of these pull downs Yes, I can see the scroll right here But not everyone notices it that everything is down here when you're setting up all of your vlands So you don't notice it immediately and if you're not aware of it You would be like well, I don't see my vlands. Why aren't any of them showing up or the other networks that you define You hit the scroll down a little. I know it's minor. I notice it But it's a frequent question. I've seen posts and forums of for some reason they're not showing up Well, they are they're just down a little bit But nonetheless the fact that we can now select these and hit close port edit See all the details of the ports. I think this is a great option One thing worth noting on some devices. This is the uap and wall hd. We click on this we click on insights There's no port insights available for these particular models So you don't get the port insight option But you can still do settings on these ports if you need to change them You just have to change them individually. There's only four ports So I don't really think of it as too big of a deal But even though they left it off of the in wall hd You can click on port insights on the small unify flex switches So even though these only have well five ports, they can still be group edited, which is nice They've added this feature to this particular switch model and before we get to the wi-fi statistics page I've already seen a few comments on people saying that their wi-fi stats page was Well broken and not displaying anything collect historical data must be enabled This is just under system and you just check this box this collects the historical data There is a note I believe in here that says don't do this on the first generation cloud key and maybe even the second generation I'm not sure what its processing level is in terms of how many it can support in terms of if you have a large deployment If this is a great idea, we're using a self-hosted controller for this with plenty of Ram and cpu available to no problems with collecting Historical data so of note if this isn't checked you won't get your wi-fi stats page And this is the revamped wi-fi stats page to let you know which ap devices are connected to signal the vague Experience where I don't really know all the functions that go into this in enough detail to explain it But I think it gives you at least some baseline like are they having a good or bad experience? I would say you know anything above 90 percent to generally good wi-fi experience But I do like that it does have the tx3 tries and drops right here rx rates that you're seeing on it And what memo they're connected to so it gets you some ideas and more troubleshooting And again, this memo was repeated as it is in the client listing to show how things are connected Now as I said, there's a whole lot of other little bug fixes and minor improvements But it's putting a lot of polish on it I feel that the whole seven series that unify has gotten to Is way more mature and much less buggy than we've seen in previous versions Of course, I did mention the 7.165 release that fixes a couple well vpn for self-hosted controller issues But overall I'm going to say I like this version. I've been using it and it has not caused me any drama That's a lot of times what people are looking for is does it work doesn't break But it not only works it adds a lot of these enhanced features And it's still you know where ubiquity stands alone and having a self-hosted controller without any license fees attached to it And now that they've eliminated the force cloud registration on some of the devices Well, that makes them that much different as well where companies, you know Really try to force you into a cloud with the minor noted exception of uid if you want to use that Platform it's tying it to the cloud to talk to your devices to manage identity management I'll do a deeper video on that as that product comes along. I think it's really interesting I think it does do a lot of what their goal is at unify of simplifying it And it's nice when you can tie your door controller your wi-fi and all of your vpn management to a single place And it does have tie into your other Authentication servers like active directory or g-suite. I believe those are features that they have right now I'll dive deeper into that video later. 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