Ubiquiti Support - Firewall Exceptions For Controller To Allow Firmware Updates
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OK, I admit I didn't read the entire first post - the wall of text was just to much.
But a simple chat boiled it down to this.
OP has a Peplink - that Peplink blocks everything outbound and inbound by default. This means that a rule needs to be made for ANY traffic passing through it.
I suggested that the OP ask UBNT the following:
Hey - I have a firewall that blocks all outbound EVERYTHING.
What ports do I need to open from this machine to allow the UBNT controller to update itself?
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@Brains said in Ubiquiti Support - Firewall Exceptions For Controller To Allow Firmware Updates:
Honestly I just want to make sure the firmware updates will download to the controller. I dont see how to verify that is working
You do not download firmware updates to the controller. When you upgrade the controller new firmware is included in it.
In my case the controller is a Ubuntu VM and the controller updates via apt-get.
I have no idea how their key controller updates.
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@Dashrender said in Ubiquiti Support - Firewall Exceptions For Controller To Allow Firmware Updates:
OK, I admit I didn't read the entire first post - the wall of text was just to much.
But a simple chat boiled it down to this.
OP has a Peplink - that Peplink blocks everything outbound and inbound by default. This means that a rule needs to be made for ANY traffic passing through it.
I suggested that the OP ask UBNT the following:
Hey - I have a firewall that blocks all outbound EVERYTHING.
What ports do I need to open from this machine to allow the UBNT controller to update itself?
No, the OP was doing it wrong. There is no method to update firmware in the controller. There never has been.
There is a way to do it by manually getting a firmware file from Ubnt and sticking that file in a certain location on the controller. But that is the only method outside of updating the controller itself to get different firmware on a controller.
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@JaredBusch said in Ubiquiti Support - Firewall Exceptions For Controller To Allow Firmware Updates:
@Brains said in Ubiquiti Support - Firewall Exceptions For Controller To Allow Firmware Updates:
Honestly I just want to make sure the firmware updates will download to the controller. I dont see how to verify that is working
You do not download firmware updates to the controller. When you upgrade the controller new firmware is included in it.
What do you mean? Are you saying the firmware updates for the WAPs are bundled in software updates for the Controller?
We have only upgraded the firmware through the controller once so far and did this:
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@Brains said in Ubiquiti Support - Firewall Exceptions For Controller To Allow Firmware Updates:
@JaredBusch said in Ubiquiti Support - Firewall Exceptions For Controller To Allow Firmware Updates:
@Brains said in Ubiquiti Support - Firewall Exceptions For Controller To Allow Firmware Updates:
Honestly I just want to make sure the firmware updates will download to the controller. I dont see how to verify that is working
You do not download firmware updates to the controller. When you upgrade the controller new firmware is included in it.
What do you mean? Are you saying the firmware updates for the WAPs are bundled in software updates for the Controller?
That is exactly what I just said.
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@JaredBusch said in Ubiquiti Support - Firewall Exceptions For Controller To Allow Firmware Updates:
@Brains said in Ubiquiti Support - Firewall Exceptions For Controller To Allow Firmware Updates:
@JaredBusch said in Ubiquiti Support - Firewall Exceptions For Controller To Allow Firmware Updates:
@Brains said in Ubiquiti Support - Firewall Exceptions For Controller To Allow Firmware Updates:
Honestly I just want to make sure the firmware updates will download to the controller. I dont see how to verify that is working
You do not download firmware updates to the controller. When you upgrade the controller new firmware is included in it.
What do you mean? Are you saying the firmware updates for the WAPs are bundled in software updates for the Controller?
That is exactly what I just said.
So I guess my question becomes how to trigger an update of the controller software?
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@Brains said in Ubiquiti Support - Firewall Exceptions For Controller To Allow Firmware Updates:
We have only upgraded the firmware through the controller once so far and did this:
Yes, that is how you upgrade an AP from inside the controller. To get newer firmware, you have to update the controller.
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@Brains said in Ubiquiti Support - Firewall Exceptions For Controller To Allow Firmware Updates:
@JaredBusch said in Ubiquiti Support - Firewall Exceptions For Controller To Allow Firmware Updates:
@Brains said in Ubiquiti Support - Firewall Exceptions For Controller To Allow Firmware Updates:
@JaredBusch said in Ubiquiti Support - Firewall Exceptions For Controller To Allow Firmware Updates:
@Brains said in Ubiquiti Support - Firewall Exceptions For Controller To Allow Firmware Updates:
Honestly I just want to make sure the firmware updates will download to the controller. I dont see how to verify that is working
You do not download firmware updates to the controller. When you upgrade the controller new firmware is included in it.
What do you mean? Are you saying the firmware updates for the WAPs are bundled in software updates for the Controller?
That is exactly what I just said.
So I guess my question becomes how to trigger an update of the controller software?
@Brains said in Ubiquiti Support - Firewall Exceptions For Controller To Allow Firmware Updates:
@JaredBusch said in Ubiquiti Support - Firewall Exceptions For Controller To Allow Firmware Updates:
@Brains said in Ubiquiti Support - Firewall Exceptions For Controller To Allow Firmware Updates:
@JaredBusch said in Ubiquiti Support - Firewall Exceptions For Controller To Allow Firmware Updates:
@Brains said in Ubiquiti Support - Firewall Exceptions For Controller To Allow Firmware Updates:
Honestly I just want to make sure the firmware updates will download to the controller. I dont see how to verify that is working
You do not download firmware updates to the controller. When you upgrade the controller new firmware is included in it.
What do you mean? Are you saying the firmware updates for the WAPs are bundled in software updates for the Controller?
That is exactly what I just said.
So I guess my question becomes how to trigger an update of the controller software?
You don't. You do it manually. In my case with
apt-get. If your controller is on Windows, then you download the update and install it. -
@JaredBusch said in Ubiquiti Support - Firewall Exceptions For Controller To Allow Firmware Updates:
@Brains said in Ubiquiti Support - Firewall Exceptions For Controller To Allow Firmware Updates:
We have only upgraded the firmware through the controller once so far and did this:
Yes, that is how you upgrade an AP from inside the controller. To get newer firmware, you have to update the controller.
Thanks Jared. This setting kinda threw me, I just assumed it downloaded the new firmware on its own
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@Brains said in Ubiquiti Support - Firewall Exceptions For Controller To Allow Firmware Updates:
@JaredBusch said in Ubiquiti Support - Firewall Exceptions For Controller To Allow Firmware Updates:
@Brains said in Ubiquiti Support - Firewall Exceptions For Controller To Allow Firmware Updates:
We have only upgraded the firmware through the controller once so far and did this:
Yes, that is how you upgrade an AP from inside the controller. To get newer firmware, you have to update the controller.
Thanks Jared. This setting kinda threw me, I just assumed it downloaded the new firmware on its own
That setting simply auto upgrades the AP when it checks in and finds new firmware on the controller.
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@JaredBusch -- He wants to know how to make it download the new AP firmware, not the new version of the controller software, if I am understanding the OP.
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@dafyre said in Ubiquiti Support - Firewall Exceptions For Controller To Allow Firmware Updates:
@JaredBusch -- He wants to know how to make it download the new AP firmware, not the new version of the controller software, if I am understanding the OP.
No shit.. Read much?
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@JaredBusch Thanks im updating our documentation now. it seems like we are already 1 firmware version behind. Is there a way to be automatically notified when there are controller updates?
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@JaredBusch said in Ubiquiti Support - Firewall Exceptions For Controller To Allow Firmware Updates:
@dafyre said in Ubiquiti Support - Firewall Exceptions For Controller To Allow Firmware Updates:
@JaredBusch -- He wants to know how to make it download the new AP firmware, not the new version of the controller software, if I am understanding the OP.
No shit.. Read much?
I thought I had. It took me to the end of the thread instead of the last post that I read. My bad.
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@Brains said in Ubiquiti Support - Firewall Exceptions For Controller To Allow Firmware Updates:
@JaredBusch Thanks im updating our documentation now. it seems like we are already 1 firmware version behind. Is there a way to be automatically notified when there are controller updates?
Subscribe to their blog.
https://community.ubnt.com/t5/UniFi-Updates-Blog/bg-p/Blog_UniFi -
@JaredBusch said in Ubiquiti Support - Firewall Exceptions For Controller To Allow Firmware Updates:
@Brains said in Ubiquiti Support - Firewall Exceptions For Controller To Allow Firmware Updates:
@JaredBusch Thanks im updating our documentation now. it seems like we are already 1 firmware version behind. Is there a way to be automatically notified when there are controller updates?
Subscribe to their blog.
https://community.ubnt.com/t5/UniFi-Updates-Blog/bg-p/Blog_UniFiThanks I went ahead and signed up for RSS feed as well. I appreciate the help Jared
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Thanks all. It looks like I wont have to open any ports to the controller
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@Brains Glad you got squared away
