 So Unify version 5.6.29 stable has been released and It was actually released a few days ago I just well I got busy and there's nothing critical in there that I seen that Man, I had to do it immediately for security, but I do like to keep up with all the updates So I figured I'd take an opportunity because I'm doing it anyways And I'll share with you how we do this update and we'll go over the release notes while it's updating and show you how we do Updates for ours because we run our own Unify controller that we manage all of our clients with and I've done videos and How to set this up and how to get this going and I just want to show you actually our update process And it's maybe just the way I think maybe there's a better way to do it I'm always open to ideas. This is how we do it and this is how I feel safe doing it So let's get started. So first, you know, I keep up with the Unify news So I know that the new version's out. I can go over here to our system and see that we're on 5.6 0.26 the old version and go, okay time to update So I'm over here at the download site and I can grab the file and download it And I'm logged into my Unify box right here so we can get the file So let me go ahead and remove that version Whoops download Copy URL and this is just my habit. I know I can use the repository. I've always done it this way so we're gonna head and just grab the file real quick, but Before we do anything as I preach to my clients and preach to everybody you should be backing everything up. So We're gonna go ahead and shut down Desh now we're gonna turn off my Unify box and the reason for this is before I do any upgrade now We back up everything on a regular basis as far as data goes That's backed up hourly during business hours and every six hours during off hours when we're really not producing that much data So that's fine for all the data backups. The virtual machines are backed up Every weekend they all shut down and entire image is made of every one of them This is like I said one of the reasons I like Zen server. It's really easy to create these OVA files And you know have a complete importable virtual machine, but in this case, we're going to create a snapshot So here's the the virtual server. This is an orchestra. So we're getting a new snapshot It created it. It takes really no time to create these So this is the before 5.26 make sure that yeah 5.6 dot 2 9 Upgrade done there. I've done an upgrade. We're gonna go ahead and start the virtual machine So fire it back up before you upgrade and the reason I stopped virtual machines is because if you have it stopped and all the services are stopped You don't have any worries about anything in so to speak being corrupted or a database restore because it's so to speak data That's not written or anything like that going on I completely can trust that the machine is in a closed locked state where everything is turned off And I can do a complete backup and if I need to restore it back to that state. It's easy And as you noticed it booted up while I talk I didn't fast-forward any of this as you could see and the machine is booted up Takes all of what two seconds to create it took me longer to type the name that doesn't create the snapshot While the virtual machines turned off and the boot the machine shut it down and boot up is 20 seconds maybe but now I'm confident that the machine I'm gonna go ahead and log back into it is ready for an upgrade. So now I Can look to make sure the services are running. I see all this SDK stuff open Java. Yeah, it's running So it seems to be running fine. I can go in back to my thing and refresh it but it's running so no big deal there so now we can go and Upgrade it simple as that Stopping unified controller. Do you have a backup? I sure do. I just did it It's gonna unpack replacement Unify and we'll see if there's any errors starting. There we go Now one Unify does the update. There's some issues that it's taking care of and I say issues I'm probably not the right word what you have here is It's got to update some of the database So I'm gonna wait a minute before I log back in and check to make sure that the new versions on there And we'll run down some of the new features that they have here So it looks like they're gonna be adding some end-to-life or some products in here. Where did it say that? There we go Controller bug fixes for 5.6 to sit from 5.6 to 6 added model end-of-life pending warning Some drag-and-drop oppositions fix missing action bugs and action buttons after enabling cloud access Update the nano HD and so that's a new device. They have added on there I believe really how does today review of that which is great Check out Willie's videos between between me and Willie We we both cover a lot of this stuff and same with Chris McRostock and between all of us We've we've amassed a lot of knowledge on the Unify products Which is great. We actually we all do kind of watch each other channels in case anyone's wondering Did you see what Willie or Chris posted probably we all we are subscribed not just because we're friends But because what we all like unify videos There's a lot of other little improvements UAP memory leak fix outdoor flag. So there's lots of little stuff that in here nothing groundbreaking mostly just a lot of updates This is interesting that you have a known issue of the 2.4 and 5 gigahertz if you scan them in quick succession that will fail I might be doing a video soon on that it's a feature they added where you can turn a wi-fi off but in scanning mode allowing you to See the other wi-fies around there. This helps troubleshoot interference problems and things like that. So that's pretty cool There's also a known issue with the manual site to site VPN status is not reflected in the unify controller dashboard widget Now I think Willie's done some but I have not done any I'm I just don't really have any deployments other than playing around with them for unify for VPN I may do some more testing with I've been told they've they've improved it greatly and they've made it a lot better I'm still a big pf sense fan as many of you know for the vpns because it's solid it works It works really good with the deployment. I've got plenty of videos on that for both doing site to sites and So to speak road warrior or where you have users logging in which is actually on my to-do list Say I got another client to go set that up for We do a lot of that work But it looks like just several device management improvements improve ux and mitigate some errors various back-end improvements So overall it's just incremental improvements. It's good to see that they're keeping up with things Which is great something you may or may not notice my typed htop is that java 7 is the minimum version And I just haven't gotten around to updating it. So it's on my to-do list I'm running java 7. I just need to update to a newer version. There's not as long as there's not a security risk I I'm sometimes a little bit slow to update Uh, but not too big of a deal. I'll have to look and figure out how to do that Maybe I'll make a video about how you move from one java version to another But the thing that's most important to me is that my virtual machines all stay constantly up to date Even though the only thing exposed on this virtual machine to the internet is the unify where for the controller side of it But you know security updates are hugely important and this update process works perfectly fine for me So let me go ahead and log back into my system Look at the devices Yep, there's my home wi-fi. Yes. I manage my home one of your two. Why not because it works in all of other clients I'm sure online as well go to settings controller 5629 everything's back where it's well up to date to where it should be So just want to share this with you. It's nothing groundbreaking in the 5629, but if there is a Uh, if you have an older version get to the newer version. That's uh, I always keep everything up to date as possible Sometimes I don't download on the same day unless I know it's a major security flaw Like we had the crack attack unify was on top a lot of that So those updates happen faster But I think they always just came all as firmware updates And that's something you may notice as well and it looks like this is still up to date But sometimes when you do an update on unify, uh, you'll end up seeing The need for uh firmware upgrades will show up in here and then for our clients We just push those during non business hours for them And push all the updates. We don't have it set to just automatically push the updates We still do them ourselves because they're well, they're really easy to do you click a button and they go So not a big deal there actually All right, and here's our wi-fi in our office and our eight port switch Um, this one's purposely disconnected because uh, we're doing some testing for a feature video on this Super awesome mega access point. That's not really the name. It's actually a unify ap az hd We're gonna redo a review on that so We've been using it because well the best thing about doing reviews isn't just doing the review It's that we test the equipment. We actually have this hooked up for uh, well almost a week or actually over a week Almost two weeks now Uh, where we do a lot of testing on it and throw a lot of things at it That way we can really give you an assessment of how does it work because I want to start doing I've been asked about this about some wi-fi comparison videos So we want to do some comparisons between the unify devices So we actually have a bunch of them and uh, we've been doing some testing individual with them And then we're going to do some group testing like ab testing for speed and Things like that as well So if you have any questions about doing these unify updates or if you ever need help with uh, unify systems We absolutely can assist you setting up your unify configuring unify or setting up a site controller It's pretty easy to maintain. There's a little trick to setting it up But once uh, unify you've seen how easy it update process went I've backed up every time before I've done a unify update. I have yet to have a new unify update go bad It's always just gone really well and this goes for two things if you didn't notice on my um Council here unify wi-fi and video. I run both of them on this server This runs my unify video and it runs my unify wi-fi And just in case you're curious about this while we updated it You can see that the processor usage is absolutely minimal I've got four cores assigned to it here and memory wise I'm we only have a few cameras in our office but between the cameras and Running the multi-site controller for all of our clients that manages all the wi-fi and usgs that we have on site We're not even using the gig or ram here So I know after a little while of usage it climbs up to roughly 1.2 gigs. Uh, so these controllers are Really not very taxed the only reason it has four cores a little bit more memory is when you are searching through videos Not just recording them Definitely a noticeable jump you're going to get In uh band in processor usage on there So it is especially the unify controller for all the wi-fi stuff really low bandwidth a really low Uh processor usage, but all right Hopefully uh, this was helpful and shows you a little bit how the unify system works Uh, if you like to contact your like and subscribe you have questions I'll leave them below or join our forums where we can Hopefully engage better and solve some problems for you And if you need help with any of this stuff Contact warrant systems and we can help you set these things up. All right. Thanks