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@captain said in Enterprise Ubiquiti Unifi:
configuration things I can do on the Unifi controller before changeover day. Not enough for me to be happy about it (I really would have liked to set up port forwards and DHCP leases before then).
Second, I can set up the Linux machine the Unifi controller is on to have a static IP.
Third, I already set up the Mikrotik to have like one hour long leases.
Fourth, I'm compiling a spreadsheet of all the important DHCP leases on the network, host names, IPs, etc. I'll make notes of whether a resource is "portable" or not (i.e., does it NEED to have the same IP minimize reconfiguration, like network printers on IP-based Windows ports).
Fifth, I need to print that list.
On changeover day, I swap the routers. This sets up a blank DHCP on the network, but I set up the static IP for the controller, so I can connect to it without futzing around. HOPEFULLY, I can adopt the router and do all the DHCP leases and port forwards and routes in a few hours.
If I can't, I can just switch back to the Mikrotik and be
I finished this project this weekend. I found out a few cool tricks, if anybody is in the same position I was.
The most important was, probably, that I could plug the router's LAN port into the LAN and adopt it in the controller even if it's not ready to be deployed. I ended up with dual/conflicting DHCP for a few days this week, but it wasn't a big deal. (The only user-facing problem happened when a user's PC got assigned an IP address outside of the old router's networks) If I looked hard, I could probably find a way to shut off DHCP on the Ubiquiti router.
I did end up having to factory reset the router, but the controller remembered all of the port forwards and DHCP leases. Oh, and you make new DHCP leases for clients that haven't been seen by clicking on "New Client" in the Clients screen.
Also, the adoption/factory reset process was a bit time consuming to figure out. The hardest part was that the modem was expecting the router to have a static IP address, but I had to do a bunch of digging/swapping on install day to figure out how to get them to talk.
Pretty happy so far. Only one printer didn't get its lease made 'static'.