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I've been thinking of Aruba APs and a FortiGate 61F. It'll be more manual setup, but should work fine. I've got a nice UniFi setup at home (CloudKey G2, USG, 8
by c0nsumer 6y ago
I've been thinking of Aruba APs and a FortiGate 61F. It'll be more manual setup, but should work fine.
I've got a nice UniFi setup at home (CloudKey G2, USG, 8-port switch, wired AP, mesh'd AP) and it works well, but it's lacking in some frustrating ways.
For example, it advertises DPI, but it doesn't provide data that can guide decisions. It'll group things into buckets, but you can't look at it over any timeframe (doesn't even say when you reset the counters) much less trigger on if anything exeptional happens.
There's also this nifty power widget which you can connect to a cable modem (between it and mains power) and when the internet connection fails, it'll power cycle the modem... not a bad thing for some iffy ISPs. It works, but it doesn't log to the otherwise-reasonably-extensive system logs. So, you never know if it actually DID anything.
The setup here at home works well. The APs are solid, as is the security gateway. But it just seems to lack in some advertised ways; enough so to make me question sticking with them when it next becomes time to upgrade.
- myrandomcomment 6y agoSo I installed the UniFi smart power plug and it does log. Not much detail, and there are server post in the forms asking for more details on the settings (timeout settings, how long it waits, what it pings, etc.) that have gone unanswered, but it does log. The message in my log is: {ap} outlet 0 has been power cycled Running latest GA on CloudKey2.
- c0nsumer 6y agoReally? Thanks! Maybe that changed with an update since I got mine... That's excellent. I'll make a power cycle happen later and affirm things here.