 Unify, network controller 5.12.22 has been released, candidate stable now it's released, I should say. It actually came out 11 days ago, but then pushed to stable was I think only four days ago. Either way, I've loaded it the other day and it's working great, I've been doing some testing with it and it's pretty cool. I like the new interfaces. We're gonna talk about new interface options, I should say. Here's the new features, a net console logging for the USG, a new settings menu, we'll talk about that. Wi-Fi, AI under the new settings menu and Wi-Fi schedule. And yeah, I know AI is a buzzword, but it's basically an intelligent Wi-Fi tool. So that's kind of neat. They have a whole lot of other little details that we're gonna cover including add per port STP toggle for panels. Now on the Unify, you can add a per port option whether or not you want spanning tree on. I haven't figured this one out yet. I mean, I see it, but I don't know what it actually means. Add wired experience score to client portal panel. We'll show that to you and I'm not really, I get a 98% on mine and I'm not sure why we'll cover that. There's a bunch of little details in here, filter Wi-Fi metrics by selected APs, lots of little details and things like that. Some changes to the speed limit tests and refactor high performance devices and back to auto optimized networks. This is something we have some larger deployments that we're managing. So I'm gonna keep an eye on this and how it works as we roll this out to some of those clients and update them to the latest firmware. There's also the option in here to turn on net counsel looking for USG. For those of you that do use USGs and we don't use very many of them, very many of them. Right here is the Unify USG reporting, how to enable net counsel debug, I'll leave a link to this. But this basically allows more detailed logging of the USG in terms of when you're doing some troubleshooting and things like that which is kind of cool. They also have some enhance like the way they do the ad site to site VPN module and better property panel experience graphs. A lot of these are related to when you're using USG to get that more in depth about the deep packet inspection. Now, before we jump in real quick, I'd like to think of an affiliate to the channel. And if you're interested in not dealing with updating a controller and managing yourself, my friends over at Hostify. Hostify is a cloud based unified controller that takes the hassle out of hosting and updates set up and installing automatic secure, includes updates sponsoring and more, also supports UNMS, UCRM and video. Check it out here. We have an offer code on our page, partners affiliates. It's also down below in the description. And in case you're wondering, are they ready? Are they up to date with the 5.122? They will be three more days and this was posted on November 12th. So probably by tomorrow or depending on when you're watching this video. Sounds like by November 5th they're gonna have the 5122 on there as well. You don't have to deal with updating yourself. Not that it's been too difficult to update but if you're looking for a pain free way to host your unified system with all the bells and whistles, the support and then people are great. And for those of you asking, yes, I'm gonna be doing a interview at some point in time, hopefully soon with Riley who runs Hostify. But I've reviewed the product. I've recommended a lot of people who don't wanna do it that it's been a great product. No one's had any complaints and I've been testing it out myself for a few times. And it's been, I'm pretty impressed with it. We'd like to our own controller. I have the skill set to do so but if you're going, you know what? I don't have time for that. These guys do. They do a great job of it. They also announced they have 20,000 devices. I've seen that in their tweet now out in there. I believe right here, right here. milestone today, we have 20,000 unified devices connected to Hostify.net. That's impressive. So you, they got some experience with the product. We'll just say that he's actually been a cool sounding board. I messaged with the CEO and owner every now and then. He certainly has some insight into Unify that I don't have running 20,000 devices on the controller. A single controller like they do is a really interesting challenge. And he's learned a lot about the way it works on the backend and offered me some insight. All right, back to the content here. While we're looking at all these little things and all these changes that's cool, improved device fingerprint, if we're gonna play with that too, that's kind of neat that you can now add little icons and things there. Maybe that was before I didn't see it but it's, I'll show you how it works. It's probably the best way I'm gonna start demoing all this. Now as for the interface, some people said it was unstable with the new version. I'm gonna say that it really wasn't. One of the things I will definitely point out is if you have a slower computer or like my older laptop that I replaced, it renders this really slow compared to this computer which is quite fast and renders it really well. We'll jump over here to stats page and you can see like when you're doing all these animations in a browser, this certainly causes some, you know, processor powered and moved around to do it. I love the way it looks but that comes at the expense of having a faster processor to run your browser which who would have thought all these years later? I do like this and this is something that I'm zooming out because when you hit show all clients and show everything connected to it, I like it but it can be a little bit challenging to see everything when you're expanding and moving around but it's kind of cool. Now this comes back to where I talked about the Wi-Fi experience score or not Wi-Fi but the actual experience score they have for wired connection. So here's my computer which by the way, I put the little Linux icon on it. I'll show you how you do that. And I have a 90%, we all seem to have a 90% score except for a few things have 100% score and I don't know why because I don't know what those metrics mean. These are the experience scores for when things are physically plugged in on the wired. I kind of got it with the wireless scores. So like my phone has a 90%, Brett's phone's got a 90%, 95 with this other Android device. This is connected at 100%. This is actually the charger for my Tesla running the Zentry OS I guess and it's the testing system. It automatically recognized the, oh cool, our Amazon dot that we have what we're playing with over here. Anyways, the US UV G3 cameras, it's got an icon for those right away which I think is kind of cool. So it recognized those and these are plugged into the POE. So this is part of that where we can change up the icons. Now where do we do that? Look over here at the clients and we're gonna go all and we'll filter for Tom. So there's Tom, pop this out and you can change the icon right here. You go into device fingerprint which by the way it didn't fill any of this in. So if we revert, this is actually what it did and then you go here, find icon and when you type in Linux, we can pick some different Linux options in here. Linux laptop, Linux desktop, I like to Linux PC but when you hit submit, it says Red Hat Linux PC source was user submitted. So it's not really doing fingerprinting per se. So I haven't really played much with that but I thought it was cool because I can label things. It did have my Google Pixel XL2 in here. So Google 2 Pixel XL and it lets me know which Wi-Fi it's connected to and puts a little cool icon there. Now back over to the wired and let's go back to the other view, close this out which by the way it now goes back and forth between the icon view and list view depending on how many devices it sees. When you filter it'll put an icon view but when you hit the list you don't have to switch back and forth but it's got the stats here so I can see things like this but like I said, this 90% score for some of the things I don't really know what that means. Maybe I'll find, maybe someone can link to it and there's an article I just haven't been able to find as I try to find like a write up from Unify on defining the scores but not really. So why am I only at 90%? All right, back to some of the other things. Now the device menus look much the same here and so like we'll go to here front 24 port we'll pop this out and we'll go to the ports and we'll, here's where the front counter computer is connected and right here's where you can change like the spanning truth protocol and whether or not you want to enable like I said on a per port basis if you want to do that and override it. So that's obviously something real specific you can do. Mac filtering, this has actually been here for a little while but you can actually whitelist each Mac address on there. So that's kind of cool that you can do that. I didn't see anything else in here that looks substantially different but definitely nice that they added a feature. Now let's jump in here to the settings. Now you're probably going Tom this looks exactly the same like all the settings that we've always seen and at first I was trying to figure out where the new settings were because I don't know, you look at something so long you don't notice that it says right here try new settings. So we're going to hit try. Now right here's back to classic mode. So you can switch back and forth between them and one of the things and move my head a little bit out of the way. So down here at the bottom it says create new wifi network. So they've changed the way it works a little bit. So you can create a basic wifi network and advanced wifi network. It's all the same options just kind of laid out a little bit differently. I like the new interface. I think this is pretty nice. So we'll go back over here basic and you can wizard your way through it. So step one of two. So they didn't get rid of all of them. I like the fact that they still have all the advanced options for those that want to do something very detailed or just a simple options because we know there's a lot of people just using this and go, I'm not sure what all those advanced options mean just give me a basic wifi network. So kind of cool that you can do that. You still have your groups you still have your wifi schedules but their scheduling is actually kind of slick here. So you can actually drag and drop selected networks Wednesday block star block time. This is really kind of nice. You can build out if you want scheduled wifi. They get a really nice menu for this system of the new features they've really brought up on it. So I don't really use that but I imagine maybe school systems and some other places they want wifi only at certain times or turn it off when you're not there. So you don't throw people trying to poke at your wifi when you're not in the office especially places offer free wifi it might make a lot of sense. Now we've only have this enabled in our network so I don't have a lot of stats or data but this is the wifi I experienced that we just I didn't turn it on until today. How often do you want to run it? And what it does is it runs a scan on a schedule to say, all right, there's a scan time and it's going to determine like what the best wifi settings are based on other neighboring access points and whether or not there's any changes to be made and what channels need to be on there. So it's going to kind of calculate and figure these things out. Once I know the testing I will like us to be following up with this AI wifi because we have some larger deployments I want to test this on and I want to see how it works. Now over here, general internet settings. This is where you can able speed test ISP capabilities and set this we don't use a USG at our office so that's nothing there. Unfortunately here create new WAN network that I can find still nowhere to put a IP address more than one on the WAN side. So yeah, that's still kind of a no go for a lot of people with the USG who have this as a problem. So I don't know when they're ever going to get rid of, get that set up so we can actually add multiple WAN IPs officially not through some back end way to the USGs. Network, local networks, here's the VLANs. You can create network, create standard network, create advanced network, kind of the same concept again where you can set this up. I like that, you know, small, medium, large, custom. So if you do the basics here it's like that versus leave. We'll create new network. And if you go to advanced, corporate, VLAN only. So you know, you can still do the VLAN only. You can do it right here. It's a little, like it's a little bit different but I like this, that we can just put these things in here. Whoops, network name, test, VLAN. Yeah, so we'll just close this and not worry about this and create the VLAN ID. Like I said, it works very similar but just a little bit different layout but that back to, we can do a basic or advanced. Now I have not played with any of the hotspots but I believe they've updated the way the hotspot system works. It's not something we've used a lot but it's kind of cool. We have a couple clients using it but we didn't set it up. Once again, we sometimes do the engineering for these companies but they knew how to set up this part or sometimes they're using a third party for authentication and payment. Therefore, they did, you know, the rest of setup. Threat management, GOIP filtering. These are features have been there for a little while. This is part of the USG's internet security which I believe uses Sericata under the hood. I don't know that, I don't have one of them that I can show you right now. Maybe I'll do some testing in a future on that but like I said, that's part of the USG. VPN, create new VPN server. Basic VPN or advanced VPN. Now I really love the site to site when you have two USGs. The downside is we can do an L2P server or PPTP server. That's it, no cool advanced open VPN. Guess not. So the same thing here, create VPN connection, unify VPN, USG as VPN to your network, USG to external VPN. We only have that as a client as an option, PPTP. So once again, we haven't seen any more advanced settings in there but we do have some of these in here. We get SNMP, UMP, static route, some of the other things you can do when you're using that except we don't have a lot of USGs so I can't really cover all those. Configuration profiles are still there. Preferences, formatting, user interface. This is kind of cool. LED settings and screen brightness at least is for the new devices that they have that have that option. So you can go ahead and do it. We don't have any of those new unifies that have little LED screens on them but I don't know if this controls the cloud key. So I'm gonna do some testing with that later. Look and feel. Yeah, we can do this still too. So someone complained, I think I had it on the light theme before. But I gotta refresh the page, I think. Where do we gotta go back here? There we go. Now we're back to the light theme, which people I know really aren't a big fan of. Preferences, user interface. I do like the dark theme as well. I usually do things on dark theme. Defaults, undocked panels, some of these things are still here as well. So you can do that formatting so you can change to 24 prime minutes in some advance so refresh rates, responsive tables, et cetera. Alerts, events and settings, network settings, local time, optimizations. Auto-optimized network is located here now under the settings, device authentication. So you can still push your SSH keys in there which I do recommend. It makes it very handy. Updates, check for updates in controller, check for updates in there. Firmware. This is kind of cool too. You can enable automatic upgrades but it does have under advanced here. Access private release channels to your Biquity account. So you can log in your Biquity account and choose the release channel. So let me, well let me do it and not unless I'm logged in. We don't have this tied to a cloud controller but now they'll let you actually choose the release channel from I believe stable to the more advanced one. So I thought that's kind of cool that they put that in there. And then the controller settings I'm not gonna show them right now. It's got some of our private data in there but yeah, the controller settings are much the same. They didn't, I don't see much difference in there. But that's the whole Unify updated interface. Like I said, I really think it's kind of cool. Oops, it put the theme back over here. There we go. I don't know why it didn't save but I probably didn't hit the apply. The theme update, the new settings, the AI system. I'm gonna like to do some more advanced videos now. We gotta do some testing. It's kind of new. And I wanna do it at a site that has a lot of clients. So that hopefully will make a big difference in terms of how it handles all of it because one of our clients has a lot of neighboring access points because it's an outdoor Wi-Fi system for a big venue and it's kind of in the middle of a neighborhood and there's a lot of other competing Wi-Fi there. So we've done our own tuning to try to push them to channels that weren't used but I like that this has kind of an automatic system. So as the Wi-Fi changes, because that's the problem, as I said, it was a house systems that are around our client system. They changed the Wi-Fi so you can't just set it and forget it. You kind of have to change it once in a while based on things that are going on. And the fact that it can do like a daily scan in case someone changes things. So my overall impressions though, it's not had a problem. I've granted only run it for a few days. I'll update as needed and but it looks good. I don't see a reason not to update it. If you're on Hostify, they're gonna take care of the backend for you. And maybe I'll plug in a USG back at home for a little while just to dive into some of the tests and see how they've updated some of the threat management and how they've updated some of the deep pack and inspection. I think it's the cool feature. I know it's one of the reasons people like the USGs but my advanced use of VPNs frequently are why I have trouble with USGs. I wish they would add some of the support for that because I would like to have it all complete in a dashboard and the multiple way on IPs. 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