Download the airVision Debian deb from Ubiquiti’s website.
http://www.ubnt.com/download/
Next upload the airvision.deb file to your server.
Install prerequisites
apt-get install openjdk-7-jre-headless
Install airVision
dpkg -i unifi-video_3.0.8~Debian7_amd64.deb
Once it finishes installing open up a web browser and go to https://yourserverip:7443 to finish setting up the controller
SSH into the UniFi AP
ssh ubnt@unifiip
The default username and password is ubnt.
once your in the UniFi type in
mca-cli
and then type in
set-inform http://UniFiControllerip:8080/inform
The UniFi should now show up in the UniFi controller as “Pending”
Adopt it and go back the the Unifi AP and run the above set-inform command again.
set-inform http://UniFiControllerip:8080/inform
If everything went well the UniFi AP should now be active in the UniFi controller.
If the UniFi was connected to a previous UniFi controller then it is going to need to be reset. You can do that by running the following command after sshing into the device.
syswrapper.sh restore-default
After it is reset, you can run the first commands again to adopt it to the controller
First add the following line to /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://www.ubnt.com/downloads/unifi/distros/deb/debian debian ubiquiti
Next add the GPG key for UniFi and mongo-10
sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv C0A52C50
sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv 7F0CEB10
Update the system
sudo apt-get update
Install the UniFi software
sudo apt-get install unifi-rapid
Once it is finished installing you should be able to browse to https://yourserverip:8443 to access the UniFi web page.
First lets install SNMP.
On Red Hat type systems such as Fedora and CentOS do the following
yum install -y net-snmp net-snmp-utils
If you are using a Debian based distro the you can use apt.
apt-get install snmp
You will need to make sure that SNMP is turned on in the radio under the Services tab.
Be sure to remember the SNMP Community string as that is needed in the next step.
Now try to connect to the device with the following command.
snmpwalk -v1 -c comunityname 192.168.1.20
You should receive something like the following.
... IF-MIB::ifSpecific.5 = OID: SNMPv2-SMI::zeroDotZero SNMPv2-MIB::snmpInPkts.0 = Counter32: 484 SNMPv2-MIB::snmpOutPkts.0 = Counter32: 471 SNMPv2-MIB::snmpInBadVersions.0 = Counter32: 0 SNMPv2-MIB::snmpInBadCommunityNames.0 = Counter32: 12 SNMPv2-MIB::snmpInBadCommunityUses.0 = Counter32: 0 ...
If you received
Timeout: No Response from 192.168.1.20
Then either the SNMP Community name is wrong or the ip address is unreachable.
The following command will list all the interfaces on the device.
snmpwalk -v1 -c comunityname 192.168.1.20 ifDescr IF-MIB::ifDescr.1 = STRING: lo IF-MIB::ifDescr.2 = STRING: eth0 IF-MIB::ifDescr.3 = STRING: eth1 IF-MIB::ifDescr.4 = STRING: wifi0 IF-MIB::ifDescr.5 = STRING: ath0 IF-MIB::ifDescr.6 = STRING: br0
Notice the number at the end of the ifDescr, That number identifies the interface. You will need that for the next command.
Now lets check the signal. Note that the last number of the OID(the OID is the last string of numbers) is the interface number of ath0. Yours could be different depending on how you have the radio setup.
snmpwalk -v1 -c communityname 192.168.1.20 1.3.6.1.4.1.14988.1.1.1.1.1.4.5
Here is a short list of OID’s. To use them just run the above command but replace the OID with the one you want.
RxRate of 5'th interface (ath0) of the device (bps): 1.3.6.1.4.1.14988.1.1.1.1.1.3.5 TxRate of 5'th interface (ath0) of the device (bps): 1.3.6.1.4.1.14988.1.1.1.1.1.2.5 Channel: 1.3.6.1.4.1.14988.1.1.1.1.1.7.5 Firmware Version: 1.2.840.10036.3.1.2.1.4 Hostname: 1.3.6.1.4.1.14988.1.1.1.1.1.5 AP MAC: 1.3.6.1.4.1.14988.1.1.1.1.1.6 Station MAC: 1.2.840.10036.1.1.1.1 Signal 1.3.6.1.4.1.41112.1.4.5.1.5.1 (OID seems to vary a little bit, from nanoBeam to nanoStation)