Proxmox (Console) UniFi Controller Install

[AMD Lover]

So at the school I go to I help with Network Management. We've got a Proxmox VM machine with several different virtual servers on it. The UniFi controller that is installed on it from the previous Network Manager is way out of date. She neglected the servers, network. No security updates were ever done, cheap refurb machines kept getting bought and half the campus and servers were still on XP. In just four months since the new Director of Technology (My friend) and me came in we have gotten rid of most of the old 2003 servers and gone to 2012 and linux machines such as FreeNAS and PfSense and such. All the desktops are either OS X or Windows 7 or 10 now and we've revamped the server rooms with Smart-UPS and much needed cable management.

 

However, the 30 or so Ubiquiti UAP's that we have are running on the way out of date management console. Neither of us know exactly how to install the new Linux UniFi console using ONLY console mode on the Promox virtual server since it is a headless unit.

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated!!!

[AMD Lover]

1 hour ago, JaredM54 said:

Can you still access the UniFi controller dashboard? Under the admin tab you can do a backup and upgrade. You can also do apt-get upgrade.

I can pull up the web access side of the UniFi controller. I don't know what apt-get upgrade is?

[AMD Lover]

2 minutes ago, JaredM54 said:

Click on "Admin" at the bottom of the controller and you should see buttons for a backup and software upgrade. (If you're going to be running Linux servers I'd also brush up on the basics )

 

Theres a backup. No option for upgrade however. Yeah I need to REALLY brush up on the basics. Its been awhile. Wheres the best source for that stuff?

[tt2468]

On July 13, 2016 at 9:53 PM, AMD Lover said:

Theres a backup. No option for upgrade however. Yeah I need to REALLY brush up on the basics. Its been awhile. Wheres the best source for that stuff?

In the console of the vm, type "sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade" w/o the ". It should perform a package/ security update for the whole machine. Like jared said, you maybe shouldn't be working on linux servers until you know about how to maintinence them. I would get someone who knows about linux to do the updates.

[MatthewsTech]

As above but we all start off somewhere. I would take a backup and if you can find a guide - depending on the linux version it's running on change the commands you need to use. Once you have a backup it may even be worth, if possible spinning up another VM and starting from fresh and then importing the backup and navigating to the old UniFi controller that should let you point all the devices to another IP address

 

For Linux commands it depends on what version etc, I don't think you mentioned the version that was being ran above;

I.e. Apt-get will work fine for ubuntu/debian

Not so well for CentOS - which I run my UniFi controller off