Once you’ve created your account, you will then be able to login to your device. If you don’t already have an account then you’ll need to create a Ubiquiti UniFi account here. You’ll notice there isn’t a registration button here. Once the web browser opens you will be presented with a login screen The browser will open the URL, You will get a certificate error but just ignore that if you are on a secure network, which it is highly likely that you will be if you are doing this type of work. If this is the first time you’re doing this, you’re going to need to go through the registration process. Simply run the software (Windows Start Menu > Ubiquiti UniFi > UniFi) Ĭlick the button to launch the site in the browser. Ok, so once you’ve downloaded the Ubiquiti UniFi Controller Software and installed it on your computer. Install and Open UniFi Controller Software Whether you are a small office/home office user or working up towards medium and large sized businesses. Pretty cool really, and this architecture of how all this works is one of the reasons that UniFi is completely blowing things away in the market with how there are designing and managing their networking hardware to make your life as easy as possible. The blue lines show how the process works for managing your UniFi managed switch. What we are looking at here, the black lines shows how everything is plugged in. Here’s what this looks like to visualise how all this interacts This is a piece of software that lives on a separate device such as your laptop or desktop computer. And this is because the Ubiquiti UniFi hardware works differently than the vast majority of other networking hardware in the sense that we configure everything via an external piece of software called the Ubiquiti UniFi Controller. Now what is interesting with Ubiquiti UniFi managed switches is that if you type the IP address of your managed switch into the web browser, nothing happens. Understanding the UniFi Controller Architecture You now know that the device is on the network Once you’ve found the IP address of the device you’ve just added, excellent. But for the purpose of completeness…) then just Google what the default username and password is for your specific device. If you haven’t accessed this before (highly unlikely if you’re reading this blog post…. Simply type that into your web browser and you should be presented with a login screen. If you aren’t sure how to access your Firewall/Router admin interface, it’s highly likely to be either 192.168.0.1 or 192.168.1.1 which are fairly standard across a range of firewalls and routers. This is usually under a DHCP Leases type page within the admin interface. Ok, so now you’re plugged in, you need to head over to your Firewall/Router Admin screen and view the devices on the network. But we’ll skip over that added complexity for the purpose of simplicity in this blog post.Ĭheck UniFi Managed Switch is Showing in Firewall/Router You’re going to need to make sure you’re plugging the managed switch into the correct part of your network if you’re already got other managed switches and VLANs set up all over the place. We’re assuming here that you’re currently working with a flat network so everything can see everything. What we are working with here is basically this device įirst of all, to get started simply plug the managed switch into your network. Physical Ubiquiti UniFi Managed Switch Hardware Before we jump into how to get this set up and plugged into your network, if you aren’t sure about the differences, then we’ve done a blog post so you can easily understand What is the Difference Between a Managed Switch VS an Unmanaged Switch, have a read over that if you need a refresher. This is the Ubiquiti UniFi managed switch. For the purpose of this blog post we’re going to use a very basic base level architecture Īs you can see in the image above, the managed switch is bang in the centre. Ok so let’s assume you’re new to all this networking malarkey, we’re going to take you through how to setup a Ubiquiti UniFi managed switch so you can adopt this on your network. We’re also going to assume you’ve got commercial grade modem and router hardware, none of the consumer grade stuff that just doesn’t really work for these types of commercial type setups.īasic Network Architecture for a UniFi Managed Switch For simplicity and to help people get started we’re going to assume that this is the first managed switch you are looking to add into your network. In this blog post we’re going to look at how to setup a UniFi managed switch on your network.
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