 So Unify the 5.8.24 stable has been released the latest version of their software for managing the Unify line of equipment and We'll start with a couple things and they put them in red here because they're very important when you're doing the upgrade Please read through this. Don't go. Hey look some red stuff. Probably not important. Why would someone highlight things in red? Linux systems running MongoDB version of 3.6. We recommend 3.4. This is most likely an issue on Ubuntu L LTS 18.04. Now, this is important I'm running a slightly older version of Debian and Debian has an older version of MongoDB in it because I'm not running Debian 9 for my Unify controller and that is important because apparently it does not work with the 3.6x I don't know when they plan to fix this Hopefully in the future because I like running the latest of everything whenever possible unless there's a reason not to Which is why this has its own VM with this MongoDB matter of fact the VM that runs my Unify runs both my Unify video and runs my Unify controller that we use to manage all our client sites We host that in-house Now those are important features So make sure you've read that and make sure that if you're running 18.04 You might have problems or if you're setting up a new controller and you just want to run the latest version same thing Make sure you have the right version Maybe at some point I'll do a video on how to downgrade to a different version of Mongo My solution was just building an older version of Debian But there are ways you can load a new version and then roll it back and maybe a future release if there's a lot of interest in that As a release branch 5.6 that we made some important changes or wireless update features here Now they have a whole guide on this redo it if you want to have a better understanding of all that It's all up to date But the part that you want to make sure we remove enable automatic failover link for what it says It's no longer needed. So if you have a wired device don't have that box checked What they're telling you is you may end up having to physically reset the box if you do the upgrade and you've checked that box That doesn't need to be checked and you do the upgrade you may have to reset that device and readopt it So just a warning on that. It's pretty straightforward. Just to uncheck the box and I'll show you where it is real quick So we're gonna go here to devices config wireless up links Don't check that So pretty Move my head down a little bit further. Make sure you can see this, but yeah pretty straightforward. Don't check those don't check these little boxes right here and You're good to go. That's what they're talking about before you do the upgrade They have all the explainer as to the why in there The only other thing I noticed is we found that in some mitigations five points to resulted in fast roaming being enabled Which is not a recommended so same thing. They have a couple of things there Airtime will not work if radio is disabled that seems like it should be obvious and what they're telling you is they have an airtime system That watches on some of the more advanced systems and they Offer to see what's going on. Well, if you turn off the radio and disable the radio on advice It won't be able to do the airtime. So I guess it kind of makes sense But there's probably someone going hey, this isn't working and someone probably replied in front. Did you turn off your radio on it? So other than that known issues expected that every will stop occasionally start and should restore functionality if you start both 2.4 and 5 gigahertz in quick succession then it will fail. Yeah, that's been kind of a known issue for a little while That's not new But if you go there and you start clicking the scanning and you click in rapid succession both of them It just fails don't do that click it let it scan then click the next one let it scan that seems makes sense to me So those are those some of the features and do's and don'ts when you're doing the upgrade Here are just the general Like new features they added like adding that counsels do speed and duplex configs for a USG interface and control for DNS mask app switcher Adding a property panel for popular devices local single sign-on Adding USG physical ports logic boards. It seems like a lot of USG features that they're adding here, which is great That is a really cool Thing about the way they work is they're constantly engineering and updating systems So even though they're not charging you any licensing fees. They still care about their product a lot So they keep giving new features to it So you didn't just buy it and it's static and then you never get a new feature This keeps pushing more and more features new firmware to even their older devices That's probably the reason they have this client pulled up this client's been installed with these devices Small salon and they need one Wi-Fi unit to cover their whole building one APLR does their entire place That has been installed for years. A lot of people know that it's green. It's the 2.4 only model So it's not anything very high-end, but here it is still running perfectly fine with you know Years later and still getting firmware updates So they don't you know, they don't abandon their products. They have a pretty long lifecycle, which is great So you don't have to spend too much time swapping out stuff because that's old There's no more firmware updates for it. So they're on it and this works really well I have not upgraded to the latest version of this the reason why is well, they're busy working right now And we just got to do it over the weekend in case you kind of do planning on those. I've not had problems with any upgrades But still always plan make sure it's during off hours. Don't disrupt your clients. That's just bad thing to do This is also something neat. They added us reporting how to enable net counsel. I haven't really played with this maybe I will but this is a Allowing more Data collection so you can export some data in here and push it out. I have not used net counsel But kind of neat that they're like I said, they're really pushing even more Features into these which is great. So back to the basic steps connection using SSH. Yes, this is all basically how you can SSH into the USG and then enable these features, which is pretty cool and And yeah, this is that long-range to one of socket. Like I said, this is just a 2.4 I was looking up. I'm trying to find a release date and try to remember exactly. I feel like digging through invoices I think it's 2015 when we put that in for that client. So it's been there a little while But that's it the upgrade went perfectly smooth for us It did say it would take about 15 minutes maybe to do the database I've been on how many Clients and data you had in there because it's a multi-site controller this hit this and it shows all my client sites on there We have about 30 client sites maybe right around there on there Something like that and it didn't take long at all went really fast and I Didn't have any problems still recommend backing up before you do it So do run a backup we do back up the VM prior I take a snapshot of it just in case it all goes wrong But all my upgrades for unify like so we have a well-maintained controller I keep everything up to date the packages is up to date as they're allowed to be so they like my Go DV version matches what they recommend from unify and the upgrades have gone really smooth So now we're running on the 5824 and haven't had a problem with it And you can do this as well if you don't have a place to run it like we do in our servers You know you can use a we like line out or digital ocean or AWS wherever you want to hold the controller at and Be able to do that as long as you're maintaining a controller properly I highly recommend you're running it on Linux. You shouldn't have any problems. All right Thanks, and that's it like I said another smooth upgrade from unify and You know still throw with the software it is. It's just been a great tool. 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