 Unify software to find networking controller 5.29 stable has been released and you're probably saying hey Tom This is old news. This was a few weeks ago, and you'd be correct What is new is that we've been using it for a few weeks So I wanted to do a review not based on hey, we installed it and it looks like it works I wanted to say hey, we installed it just install one smooth Which it did the upgrade went smooth and we are managing all of our clients on this and we haven't had any headaches with it So after a few weeks It seems to be working fine firmware updates and everything I know nothing really complain about I know that's less exciting In terms of I like solving problems but then it was great when your tools that you manage your clients with work really well and So they have some of the new features include the new dashboard IPS signatures Updates and more controls around that soon. I'm going to do a video on that particular topic Updated single sign-on VLAN support new cloud access integration In a whole list of stuff. I'll leave a link to this so you can see all the amazing new features and Well, just like it says at the top when you look at the new dashboard everything is great And this is a weird addition to me that they put that at the top feels very marketing But whatever you got a market to sell products. So we'll I just I think it's not a marketing thing It's a feels like a marketing thing. I guess because our network is excellent and Everything else, but let's talk about the new dashboard and things like that slow You have this new customizable dashboard that you can create your own I have my Tom's dash and I have the Wi-Fi metrics, which is a default and let's look at a more exciting site That has a lot more things going on it now The first thing you may have noticed is when we switch to this site, everything is good, but not great Well, that's because when you have the unify USG at the head end everything is great when you don't have that As a front-end and for this pick your client for some of the advanced things that are doing we have a different firewall on here Yes, it's a PF sense in case you're wondering And this is a larger deployment So we're gonna switch over from the Wi-Fi metrics to the Tom's dash, which the customizable dashboards I really like in this version. So definitely pretty cool. And you can kind of get an idea. You can see utilization between the different APs that we have all deployed here Connection types and everything and then customizing a dash to me really simple and this is just it's it's so nice So I can go to manage dashboards I see the custom I can add another custom dashboard and this is done on a per user basis I can export the dashboard if I wanted to import it somewhere else and a dashboard aren't set up per site They're set up on a per user on this controller basis but we're gonna go ahead and edit my dashboard and You just kind of click plus and minus and drag things around and Builds your new dashboard of how you want so you have a couple of views that you really like you can create those custom views and you Know whichever form works for you. We're gonna head hit done But it's it's nice now the one thing I did notice and it could be mean just not Understanding how it works. So here we have a little pull down easy enough I can say yesterday today last hour last 24 hours. So let's go last seven days apply And by the way, this is just very slick interface For a UI here so we can look in Track out things with different problems. You may be experiencing a graph some out for you when you're looking at alright This is the this Wi-Fi unit. We're seeing the connectivity issues between There are you know packets and things like that, but what I thought was weird is Oh, and we do have filters for all the access points So which is also really cool so you can filter it out to just narrow down one Like I said a lot of great customization here, but when we switch over here to Tom's dash We can still filter per device and here but you may notice that I don't get to choose the time of the day It just goes back 24 hours. I thought that was kind of weird and like I said, I don't know if it's me missing something But it's cool. I can see all this but I don't get to see the Choose the date range when you're doing a custom dashboard. It's only in the Non-customized dashboards, maybe they can enhance that and add that as a feature But I do like anytime you click on there, you can go here. I can restart this device I can pop it out so I can undock it from the property panel and some of these are features They had before in here, but then I can look at these individually. So I really love the way this works It makes managing this really simple. Let's go over here to Devices much the same as it was before Performance so you can look at the tx 5g tx there The config for how each one's configured So it's just they've done a lot of polishing on this in terms of the way the system looks when you're going through all this So I'm really happy with the updated interface. I would like a darker interface that would be cool But maybe they'll come out with it. I know that someone said there's a chrome extension where you can flip this to be a Darker interface. I seen someone mentioning that Go to our statistics page and same thing We can choose statistics daily or choose a date range here And we can look at a particular device and look at the stats on that particular one So really they've done like a nice job on a performance that's traffic stats switch stats speed test stats and debugging metrics So kind of cool that you have this one someone more drill down information if you're trying to sort out problems or anything like that Now another thing I've always liked and this is something I've talked before about will unify and this seems to work even faster now is they have Debug terminal built in because all their devices all have a small Linux kernel in them so even though this is a site we're managing remotely I can hit open in terminal and Immediately be into a terminal on this particular device and do like a test on here with a quite a few Linux tools that are built in and Start troubleshooting things so I can ping in this instance the gateway But I can also ping an individual device look to see if there's packet problems and start kind of drilling into Issues that it might need to be solved on there So we're gonna hand close that The map still works fine and this view still works the only problem you run into is It doesn't scale out enough in my opinion. Maybe that's an enhancement. We'll see soon But uh, it's cool. Hey look someone just went from one end of the building to the other They just kind of need to watch as it refreshes because as people wander through the building because I'm showing the clients You'll show the clients moving along the different Paths as they jump to different Wi-Fi access points, which is just kind of novel to watch them hop around I really like this feature. But when you show clients it does expand it out quite a bit Which makes it a little bit hard to see but as such as life So go back over here to All right, so we'll look at like these switch stats here Overall, like I said, they've just done a lot of polishing a lot of enhancement. It's really nice Everything works well and that's just kind of my memory review of it We're still using to manage all of our clients and all their sites Well, not all of our clients is all of our managed clients that I want that on here I'm gonna say this was definitely a worthwhile upgrade and I look forward to some of the future updates And hopefully they sort out this little dashboard Filter time thing or if someone says Tom, you're an idiot. 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