Wish List!

[lncommunications]

Network Map please :)

[MaximumISP]

Configuration backup and storage would be nice too

[sirthor]

Request. I would rather have AirControl open a new tab as opposed to a new window when launching the we GUI.

[sirthor]

throughput column would be helpful information

[UBNT-Thomas]

throughput column would be helpful information

It's there, customize the columns or fields in detail area to display it.

[moemorgan]

Ability to scan a complete subnet when you click add to add radios.

[davedee]

It's there, customize the columns or fields in detail area to display it.

I dont see the option for throughput in the Select Device Attributes dialog box. What am I doing wrong?

Same goes for signal level. Is this field also possible?

[bwatson]

It would be very nice to not have to know the MAC address of the device you are adding. Also, the ability to scan devices on a subnet other than the one the server resides on would be excellent.

[davedee]

I dont see the option for throughput in the Select Device Attributes dialog box. What am I doing wrong?

Same goes for signal level. Is this field also possible?

Cleared up my problem as it was my fault! So everything looks fine at the moment.

[bobcopro]

On the connect/disconnect the cursor refuses to stay in the password field the first time it hits it whether through the tab key or mouse click. I must always click a second time in the field to get it to stay. It would be nice if it saved username/password - either by default or in the admin config file since all of our units have the same username/password.

In order of features that would be nice.

It would be nice to have a schedule function for the firmware or connect upgrades so they could be done at 2am for instance.

It would be nice if the interface could be set to beep or send an email, etc when it loses contact with a unit.

The folders list on the right is a little confusing. Units listed under 3.3.2 that have been upgraded do not leave the folder, but stay there and show 3.5 for the firmware. I cannot find a way to change the size of that pane so the folder names are all visible. It would be nice to be able to move them around or create sub-groups that are all under the same AP (units running AP/WDS). I actually don't see the purpose of each unit having it's own folder as it doesn't display anymore information than clicking on the unit under "all devices" and adds clutter.

It would be REALLY nice to have the unit details show the MAC of associated stations, especially if they are static ones. It would be REALLY REALLY nice if it actually showed a tree of the stations by MAC association as in:
XX:XX:XX:XX:XX Host Name IP Address ESSID Product AP/WDS
XX:XX:XX:XX:XX Host Name IP Address ESSID Product AP/WDS
XX:XX:XX:XX:XX Host Name IP Address ESSID Product AP/WDS
XX:XX:XX:XX:XX Host Name IP Address ESSID Product STATION/WDS

Speaking of which why does it only show ap or station as opposed to ap/wds and station/wds?

All in all a nice offering. It really helps out.

[Armwheet]

I have some thoughts from AirMAX conference in Poland.

My personal wish list:
- possibility to automatically download new firmware from Ubiquity repository
- possibility to reboot selected devices
- possibility to add custom map and place icons and GPS coordinates to easily identify failed nods.
- notifications via e-mail, or sms
- permissions (for example administrator for everything, and read rights for normal user)
- backup and restore functionality
- changing firewall rules on multiple devices at the same time
- some kind of unified and aggregated statistics may also be helpfull

To put it simple - it would be nice to have features similar to MikroTik Dude or better yet Cisco WCS of course with features AirOS supports. Basic idea is to have management solution which will enable WISPs to plan, deploy, manage, monitor, troubleshoot and report networks based on UBNT products.

Mike you know what I'm talking about;)

[bobcopro]

It would be more valuable for me to be able to export the info from the devices screen than the system log. That way I could import it into Excel to check against what I think is deployed. It would be nice if it sorted by the IP address correctly (not starting at 1.100).

[overburn]

As Mike said on the confernece mass options for the firewall is a "no go", but a possibilty do download the whole firewall configuration to file and upload in to the another would be nice :]

And A display OF The Antenna Polarization in the main Window.

[drwho17]

Features I'd like to see.

SSH through mac.
Remote reboot.
The ability to export Radio info.
Provisioning of radios.
Published API for embedding in other websites.

[drwho17]

I'd like to be able to see the association time for each client. To take it further to be able to monitor association counts over a period of time.

[bwatson]

Suggestions for groups:

Ability to build a group using a network address (such as 172.16.1.0/24) instead of a boolean expression.

Ability to nest groups inside of groups. For example, build a main group for a site using the network address, then inside of that group have the ability to set subgroups for each essid (or whatever means of differentiation you'd like.)

[bwatson]

Also, the administration aspect of the aircontrol could use a few tweaks. I don't see a list of current users or the ability to delete users once they've been created. The ability to create a limited account that can only monitor and not make any changes to the devices would also be nice.

[bwatson]

Also, could the server support some kind of snmp/syslog forwarding? We have multiple management systems, so it would be nice to have the aircontrol forward alerts to a centralized server when alerts are generated so that we don't have to have someone staring at the screen.

[drwho17]

I would request the ability to "Auto Manage" devices. The ability to specify a global user/pass (not ubnt/ubnt), which when a new device appears a connection will be tried and if successful it goes into managed mode.

[ether3al]

Can some one from UBNT indicate as to whether any of the requested features are going to appear in the not too distant future?

[UBNT-Thomas]

The purpose of this list is to identify features that are needed most, hence the answer is yes, requested features will appear in the not too distant future, subject to prioritization. This also requires that we give you folks sufficient time to play with the beta release and weigh in.

[drwho17]

When I create a new folder/device group, I'd like to have the noise floor variable added. That is one of the things I try to proactively monitor as well.

[skyhook]

Add to list:

1 - centralized speedtest (and schedulable to check a group devices...)
2 - allow to execute custom script on UBNT remote devices
3 - graphing SNMP values (like MRTG, CACTI, ...)
4 - tracking IP address change (the CPE contact the AirControl server at IP address change?)
5 - information stored in a accessible DB (like mySQL) or allow export/import function

[skyhook]

SSH through mac.

Telnet/SSH MAC access is a very important function.

[etocalini]

- Reboot selected devices
- mySQL database

[900mhzdude]

would be nice to be able to forward macs that are in a list to a IP Address and drop all other packets for people that don't pay there bill

i have the script to do it with IPTABLES but don't know how to add it to the NS2 firmware
would be nice to do it in the GUI instead of command line also

[jluthman]

Request. I would rather have AirControl open a new tab as opposed to a new window when launching the we GUI.

To my knowledge this can't be done based on HTML. It's a browser preference.

[bobcopro]

Browser preferences are already set to open in new tab - airControl seems to override the setting.

The default HTML command to open a new link:
<a href=”http://sitename.com” target="_blank">Link text here</a>

If the beginning of the page has declaration:
<base target="_blank">

then it should default to a new tab if the browser supports it. Both Java and CSS have the same ability I believe.

[raytaylor]

Something to add to the list

Automatic error acknowlegment.
I have a user who likes to turn off his radio when he isnt using the internet - excessive cancer causing radiowave paranoia.

However it does come up as an error in aircontrol and so in the dude, i just select ack and his radio changes to blue and i can easily ignore it. Could there be an option to do this in aircontrol, and still show it as green when the radio is switched on?

I also very much like that idea I saw from the person who wanted to graph the signal over time at something like 5 minute intervals or something like that. I have a user who i said would probably have to trim a tree next month or sometime soon as his signal has dropped by 10db. I have been graphing this manually each day but would be nice to have this automatic

[raytaylor]

Another feature that would help WISP's: Speed / Plan configurations.

If you had a tab similar to the firmware tab where we could load plans and speeds such as Basic 512/512, standard 1024/1024 and Fast, 1500,1500 then apply a plan to a radios throttling configuration (which aircontrol just needs to push out the speed configuration and reboot the device) then that would make it easy to mass-alter or easily alter a customers plan.

[eatmoresoap]

Maybe I'm missing that it already does this but I need to be able to connect to UBNT devices on remote networks where we NAT the radios behind one public IP. Can we have the ability to input the address along with the forwarded port?

Also would like the ability to discover all UBNT devices if I connect to first UBNT on the remote network. As in, login to the radio that is on the remote public IP, have the radio do a scan of the network it is connected to then pass that information to Aircontrol. Maybe have the remote UBNT gateway act as the middle man to gather the information I need to administer the rest of the network with AirControl.

Use MAC ID when connecting to network so that I can see all equipment, not just the equipment on the same subnet.

Thanks!

[UBNT-Thomas]

Maybe I'm missing that it already does this but I need to be able to connect to UBNT devices on remote networks where we NAT the radios behind one public IP. Can we have the ability to input the address along with the forwarded port?
If you tunnel the SSH port, use the "Add Device" dialog, enter the tunnel host IP address and then the respective port when you connect on the "Connect/Disconnect" dialog (instead of port 22).

Also would like the ability to discover all UBNT devices if I connect to first UBNT on the remote network. As in, login to the radio that is on the remote public IP, have the radio do a scan of the network it is connected to then pass that information to Aircontrol. Maybe have the remote UBNT gateway act as the middle man to gather the information I need to administer the rest of the network with AirControl.


There is a range scan option under "Add Devices". This will let you find devices that are layer 3 reachable on the discovery port and subsequently can be managed. Devices that cannot be accessed through SSH cannot be managed, so even if there was a way to find them as you suggest you cannot connect to them. This would require a full fledged tunneling support.


Use MAC ID when connecting to network so that I can see all equipment, not just the equipment on the same subnet.


The entire management protocol is layer 3, can you explain what you would like to do with the MAC in this scenario?

[dan]

Gidday Guys, this product is fantastic! It would be great if the 'Launch Web UI' would push the user/pass through that you've put into the save ssh settings page??

Could this be added?

Regards
Dan

[leighton]

It is a great product - very nice to have (and makes me want to switch over the remainder of our network's stations to Ubiquiti devices).

It would be good if you could add a "notes" field - so that if, for instance, we've disabled someone's LAN side, or throttled back a connection speed, or noticed a high traffic number, we could make a brief note of it and then come back to it later.

Also, I like the suggestion of having a one-click reboot option of radio(s) from within AirControl.

Thanks.

[raytaylor]

It is a great product - very nice to have (and makes me want to switch over the remainder of our network's stations to Ubiquiti devices).

It would be good if you could add a "notes" field - so that if, for instance, we've disabled someone's LAN side, or throttled back a connection speed, or noticed a high traffic number, we could make a brief note of it and then come back to it later.


Could have a basic ticket system integrated so a proper customer history can be kept. With proper call centre reporting - similar to how the dude does where you can select a node and add notes. Would be nice to have notes displayed or entered with a
- date/time field,
- auto-generated ticket code,
- aircontrol user and the
- notes detail.

Possibly in the future a tickbox to elevate the ticket or radio to 2nd level support.

The aircontrol system, when fully featured, has the potential to make all those trango and canopy die-hard fans stop seeing us 'playing' with ubnt gear auctually see it as a proper wisp designed total solution.

Aircontrol + ubnt hardware + neteq (if needed) = WISP

[leighton]

Although you have listed so many attributes under your customize screens, a couple of additions I would find useful would be the incoming and outgoing traffic limit speeds selected under Wireless Traffic Shaping. Those are the first things I need to check and adjust if someone is using way to much bandwidth.

Thanks for asking for feedback and suggestions.

Leighton

[bwatson]

Is there a way to add clients directly to a device group or do you have to scan the clients first and then add them to a group?

So far I can only add the clients to a device group after I have scanned them. It would be nice to be able to add them directly to a device group.

[bwatson]

Also, the ability to use AND/OR operators in dynamic group lists would be great.

It would also be nice to be able to setup dynamic groups using the network address. For example, if your network is 192.168.0.0/23, there is no good way to make sure all devices on that network are in the same device list by IP address.

[webking87]

Another feature that would help WISP's: Speed / Plan configurations.

If you had a tab similar to the firmware tab where we could load plans and speeds such as Basic 512/512, standard 1024/1024 and Fast, 1500,1500 then apply a plan to a radios throttling configuration (which aircontrol just needs to push out the speed configuration and reboot the device) then that would make it easy to mass-alter or easily alter a customers plan.

I'd second this!!!!

[eatmoresoap]

The entire management protocol is layer 3, can you explain what you would like to do with the MAC in this scenario?

I would like to be able to connect via MAC instead of IP address.

[notor1ous]

a tab that allows you to define subnets that you would like AirControl to scan at a set intervals in which to scan them

User management even if it is just a drop down menu to choose between an administrator level or a read only level so people that are not as competent as others can not hork stuff up

Thanks

[yavadym]

Guys we really need to come up with access filtering on LAN for both IP and MACs. Is that possible?

[Vitis]

Its realy good utility with huge potential.
But I will appreciate user and usergroup administration. Now, I dont know, how many useraccount are already created, and anyone can create new account.

I imagine usergroup with many options like access only to specific group/folders, read, write full, adminisrator like in RouterOS.
Access to specific group/folder means, that the users in this group can view only this group/folder.
read access means, that they just view without customize and change anything.
write means, that they can change and customize anything, but can't change user/pass on the device.
full means that they can change anything including user/pass on device, create users for their group/folder.
Administrator is admin of AirControl.

It would be nice, if you can completly manage all devices with AirControl. I expect that if I am running this utility on one server than I will be able to manage all devices I can from anywhere, where I am able to connect to this server. But I can't connect directly to devices because it's behind NAT.

I would like to add subgroups/folder to existing group.

Dynamic group/folder could be global and local - global means, that this group/folder will be created like subgroup/folder on every existing group/folder and local means that it will be created under the specific group/folder.

I also vote for display all connected client to the AP (signal, TX/RX speed, CCQ), graphing this signal in RRD, graphing traffic throughput and save all logs.

I hope, that it's understandable.

Vitis

[notor1ous]

A folder that has all unmanaged devices regardless of FW version on the left folder tree so it is easier to get the unmanaged devices set up

[drwho17]

A reporting module with the ability to dump customers to a comma delimited format based on certain criteria, basically the ability to export the groups.

A second thing that would allow me to centralize more of my network management into AirControl would be the ability to add Address information to the discovered clients, and then plot them on a google map. I'd also like the ability to plot them on the map using criteria based queries.

[sxpert]

- Reboot selected devices
- mySQL database

make that jdbc so that any database with a driver can be used !

[notor1ous]

instead of being able to just see one notification at a time make the notifications stack on top of each other so when one comes up you can see it, then another one will push it up so you can see multiple and the top one will go away and so on and so forth

chat programs do this for notifications

[bmayer01]

It would be nice to be able to collect and graph some of the key statistics such as RSSI, In/Out traffic. I know one can implement 3rd party solutions such as Cacti, but having it integrated directly in airControl would be fantastic.

[UBNT-Thomas]

That's coming soon. You will be able to pick the attributes that are available today and plot 24 hour history, for example.

[succeednet]

Dependency tree style view. This is helpful for bigger networks.

[jaimie]

So far I am impressed with the application and I can see its off to a great start. A few things I would like to see are:

Read only account. We have support staff that need to see things but I don't want them changing things or updating firmware.

Config backup/restore would be nice.

Thresholds. If we could set min and max for the data collected then trigger alerts via email and SMS would be a real big help. This would be one of the most important things to me. Currently I use ZenOss and snmp traps for this. Be nice to have one application. One very important threshold would be extended periods of high throughput for a radio. I am sure we all would like to know when that is happening and be alerted to an abusive customer. Another would be low signal values, low CCQ things of that nature.

I saw a request for scheduled firmware updates for specific hosts. I think this would be handy to.

Remote Reboot would be nice to. Along with scheduled reboot could come in handy.

Remote logging of the radios. Centralized log server with the ability to turn off and on remote logging for radios. This could come in handy for a troubled radio. If there was a toggle to turn on and off logging for specific radio would make it just perfect.

I think some of the items from AirOs would be good to. Maybe a right click menu on the host with the following items: Ping, Traceroute, AP information, Throughput, DHCP info, Log. Make life a bit faster for support staff.

Thats about all I can think of at the moment.

Good Job this is well on its way to making my life better!

I knew I would forget something we need user management. I see no way to manage the users I have added.

[robertoveras_Dominicano]

Adding iptables in order to control p2p connections could be excellent.

[drwho17]

I'd like to be able to create watch groups based on Status, so that I can quickly check to see if radios are down. I'd also like to be able to watch them based on Association time.

[dayas]

Another feature that would help WISP's: Speed / Plan configurations.

If you had a tab similar to the firmware tab where we could load plans and speeds such as Basic 512/512, standard 1024/1024 and Fast, 1500,1500 then apply a plan to a radios throttling configuration (which aircontrol just needs to push out the speed configuration and reboot the device) then that would make it easy to mass-alter or easily alter a customers plan.

This would be a very nice feature love to see it!

[AccessITNet]

Now I don't know if im the first to request this, but I am currently develping it for my network. What we need is an accounting ability.

1. forward users traffic to a web page (splash screen) to pay their bill when it is due before they can continue.
2. account for users upload and download
3. accounting/splash screen for hotspot users from multiple access points on a network.

[mgibbons]

Looking through the list of requests a common desire is that of configuration backup/restore.

It would be very useful to dowload the configuration files from all of my devices without having to login to each one.

I occasionaly change "little" things on odd devices then forget to make a note. The trouble is lots of little changes can leave you in a big mess IF you loose those changes.

A "backup all my units" button would be very good

I am not so worried about automated restore since failures tend to be singular.

Mark

[treichhart]

like to see a option to disable customer for non-pay or abuse the network.

[netsplice]

Can we please improve performance.... some of us like to run this stuff on older machines as it is cheap. This is stats from my linux server

airc 22244 6.8 28.1 411620 254444 ? Sl Jan25 100:25 /usr/bin/java -Djava.util.logging.config.file=/usr/local/bin/aircontrol

The 28.1 is the % memory used out of 1GB That is a lot... and 6.8 is the CPU usage. That is a lot of CPU and MEM...

[drwho17]

One feature that might be interesting would be the ability to provision radio configs from aircontrol. Including a DHCP server and having the cpe's check for said DHCP server which will provide them a TFTP server location to download their config would be pretty nice. This way I can have them autoconfigure in the field.

[freemam]

- import/export devices list
- display user list
- schedulable commands (massive execution)
- centralised and schedulable speed test (by GUI)

[manucc1º]

- Web proxy
- Total input and output data
- Full manage of clients
- Load balancing
- Firewall

and

Ubiquiti server with AirControl (OS, not application) installed.

[lwq]

- AirControl server-side written using eg. Apache2, PHP5, MySQL - for better performance

- AirControl GUI (browser-side) written using Ajax or DHTML in way, that it is useable even on slow machines (the "ground-breaking" feature will possibly be the accessability for mobile devices like iPhone, to manage network anywhere)

- downloading new FW directly from UBNT cluster (server) with selectable option to do provisioning to devices or just to download FW to local rep.

- backup/restore all the AirControl settings to xml file, packed-up to crypted 7zip archive (for safety of saved passwords, etc.) and push it to sftp server (or even a simple mechanism of backup files "rotating")

- LDAP/Radius Auth to AirControl GUI

- setting up thresholds of issues in network and e-mail (jabber ? :icon_twisted:) notification

- something like "db-connector" (like ODBC) to data collected by AC (for another analyzation, stats, etc.)

- profiles of sets of user name and passwd for getting newly discovered devices managed in straight forward way

... BTW: If you'll need, I can offer you my help in programming, testing ... :icon_wink:

[UBNT-Thomas]

Thanks for the feature related input and please limit this thread to "what" you want AirControl to do, as opposed to how we implement it. The only comment I will make is a reality check WRT your OS assumption: The much I prefer Linux as server platform for a variety of reasons, 90% AirControl deployments are Windows.

We may take you up on the testing offer at some point :icon_wink:

[lwq]

Thanks for the feature related input and please limit this thread to "what" you want AirControl to do, as opposed to how we implement it. The only comment I will make is a reality check WRT your OS assumption: The much I prefer Linux as server platform for a variety of reasons, 90% AirControl deployments are Windows.

We may take you up on the testing offer at some point :icon_wink:

OKOK, fine. I'm just wondering, where did you find out, that the 90% of AC deployments are Win based ? :icon_cool:

[UBNT-Thomas]

From the update logs.

[MaximumISP]

Thomas

I dont think that the update logs are necesarily
a good reflection of who
will be actually using aircontrol when its ready

Lots of us have tested it and are waiting for it to mature a little
We have a test win install and have never used the update feature
(always do it manually so it wouldnt show in the logs)
many are just playing with it (new toy and all)

Those of us who seriously want/need something
to help manage larger deployments will prefer to have it on linux
with a fast interface on cheap hardware
imho Apache + Mysql with a modular plugin design
is the way to go

Shure keep a version for the winblows kids
But the big boys need serious managment tools

So far AC looks great and has lots of potential

no offence intended
Your are doing some nice work but
Sorry but I just dont see this Java thing scaling to size very well

only thing id want java for is to mayby
start a terminal connection from a html page
(Runing on Apache of course)

My 3 cents :)

[WHT]

Well...UBNT wanted my opinion...here it is.



AirControl is pretty much useless to me.

[UBNT-Thomas]

The automatic nightly update check is enough for me to know on which platform servers are running currently.

Folks naturally like to get into this platform and technology debate, typically armed with arguments that are colored by their individual preferences, needs and experience. Your feedback is welcome, though we are really looking for feature suggestions, not technology/implementation debate (on which everyone has a different opinion anyways). We know the scalability limits which will be addressed in time and have nothing to do with Java or OS on which the server runs, no need to further speculate here. You may agree with how we do things or not, the only thing that ultimately matters is that AirControl does what the majority of our users need. AirControl will remain a tool with cross platform support, not just for those who prefer to use a Linux based server.

[WHT]

You may agree with how we do things or not, the only thing that ultimately matters is that AirControl does what the majority of our users need.

1) Consistently reports incorrect CCQ levels, usually less than 80% CCQ.
- I have to go into the actual radio or AP to find the level is a solid 100% after watching it for thirty minutes.

2) Report a radio off-line with the Red icon.
- I have to go into the actual radio and find its been doing just fine.

3) Report all radios on-line when one or more really isn't, do batch FW uploads fail
- I have to go into all the radios to see which one is off-line.

The Discovery Tool is far more useful, and I have Firefox shortcuts to each radio for fast access.

[UBNT-Thomas]

1) Consistently reports incorrect CCQ levels, usually less than 80% CCQ.
- I have to go into the actual radio or AP to find the level is a solid 100% after watching it for thirty minutes.

Which firmware version do you see this with? It would help to have an environment to reproduce it.

2) Report a radio off-line with the Red icon.
- I have to go into the actual radio and find its been doing just fine.

Is that after device reboot? One feature that will be added to the firmware shortly is the ability of the device to resume reporting to AirControl after a reboot. Right now there is a reconnect after timeout for this only, which could lead to the device showing in error status even though it is back up.

3) Report all radios on-line when one or more really isn't, do batch FW uploads fail
- I have to go into all the radios to see which one is off-line.

That issue has been raised on another thread already. Will either change behavior to ignore unreachable devices and let rest of the batch pass or at least give it as an option to the user.


The Discovery Tool is far more useful, and I have Firefox shortcuts to each radio for fast access.
You are saying that from a longer term perspective (thinking beyond current shortcomings or issues in AirControl) you don't need anything beyond what the discovery tool already offers to efficiently manage your devices? That would certainly not be the case for many other folks...

[WHT]

I'm looking at one right now:
AC top pane says 81%
Drop down pane shows 91%
Radio's gui shows 100%

AC version is whatever you had up a week ago
AirMax radios all have 5.1.2

You are saying that from a longer term perspective (thinking beyond current shortcomings or issues in AirControl) you don't need anything beyond what the discovery tool already offers to efficiently manage your devices?Well...I don't know. If the bugs get fixed, it might be useful. Only thing I really use it for is to take a quick look at each user's traffic.

[UBNT-Thomas]

I'm looking at one right now:
AC top pane says 81%
Drop down pane shows 91%
Radio's gui shows 100%

AC version is whatever you had up a week ago
AirMax radios all have 5.1.2


Can you please confirm that this is not just a matter of delayed data? The data comes straight from the device. The AirControl device details panel (not the device table - top pane) will update the statistics every ~5s from the device. It is possible that the value changes within that interval. Or do you see 100% on the device web UI all the time and consistently lower values in AirControl over an extended period of time?

[LHC]

...... If the bugs get fixed, it might be useful. Only thing I really use it for is to take a quick look at each user's traffic.

Have found similar results... quite inconsistent to the point I don't use it at all as I consider it not very useful at this point.. for me anyway.. and it gets really bogged down once you get past 40 or so units to display/manage.

[MaximumISP]

The automatic nightly update check is enough for me to know on which platform servers are running currently.


Still dont think this is definitive data by anymeans


Folks naturally like to get into this platform and technology debate, typically armed with arguments that are colored by their individual preferences, needs and experience. Your feedback is welcome, though we are really looking for feature suggestions, not technology/implementation debate (on which everyone has a different opinion anyways).


Is a modular pluging based design not a feature


We know the scalability limits which will be addressed in time and have nothing to do with Java or OS on which the server runs, no need to further speculate here.

imho i am not speculating really but
I will eat crow when that day comes no problem
Raw, Cooked feather or un feathered

You may agree with how we do things or not,

Lol now that is kinda ironic ...
pretty much throws requesting feedback out the window... doesnt it
You guys are gonna do what ever you want anyways

the only thing that ultimately matters is that AirControl does what the majority of our users need.

What users are you refering to:
guys playing with it because it looks pretty
or real wisps trying to manage hundreds of radios
with cobbled together solutions

who exactly is the target audience with AC


AirControl will remain a tool with cross platform support, not just for those who prefer to use a Linux based server.

Thats great and I agree with you

Its pretty easy to run Apache , Mysql and Php on windows these days
http://www.wampserver.com/en/

[UBNT-Thomas]

Is a modular pluging based design not a feature

Correct, and what I'm looking to hear from you is what features you want to see in the product, not how it should be designed/implemented. You should not have to worry what is underneath the covers as long is it works and provides the required functionality.

Lol now that is kinda ironic ...
pretty much throws requesting feedback out the window... doesnt it
You guys are gonna do what ever you want anyways

We are going to implement it the way we deem appropriate, correct. We are going to build the functionality that you want. Hope that clarifies it.

[MaximumISP]

Correct, and what I'm looking to hear from you is what features you want to see in the product, not how it should be designed/implemented. You should not have to worry what is underneath the covers as long is it works and provides the required functionality.


I believe I have made a number of suggestions previously that may
have some merit and I am not at all worried about whats under the hood
dont really care ...be nice if it was fast and efficient though

Just providing feedback dont agree thats ok :)


We are going to implement it the way we deem appropriate, correct
We are going to build the functionality that you want. Hope that clarifies it.

Understood no need to clarify it further
your previous post said it clear enough

I hope you do build in all the functionality we all need

My suggestion would be to improve its performance
before worrying about implimenting new features
(sooner rather than later)

after 4 months now its kinda like paris hilton
looks good....but I cant do anything with it :icon_wink:

I have a few questions for you but I will start a new thread and
quit messing up the wish list thread

[jcremin]

I agree with Maximum....

I tried it out, and it was painfully slow. I haven't tried it again since and probably won't until it is faster, regardless of the features that are added, because it was frustrating to use. Performance, while an under the hood component, is a valid "feature request" and should be taken seriously.

[UBNT-Thomas]

I don't think there is any disagreement as far as functional and non-functional requirements are concerned:

http://www.ubnt.com/forum/showthread.php?t=18400

[avantwireless]

Numbers in charts need some sort of scaling so that we are not looking at 60000000 for data rates. As well as transfers in bits instead of bytes. Everything on our network is measured by mbit/sec, not mbyte.. apples and apples...

Please.

[randallr]

Would like to change http port on all devices. A way to push change to all connected devices would be great.

[New_User01]

A USB or ExpressCard XR7 or USB Mini-PCI adapter.

[vaden]

We wish AirControl would display periodic updates to

Device Group Summary

kind regards/ldv

[manucc1º]

FULL manage of a ISP (withouth needs of mikrotik)

[therealboss]

I find this a good tool but I too would like to see ability to integrate customers into google maps. Even if you had to select the customers location something like the way you select location for a site in Ligo Wave Link Calculator

Also a network map screen would be nice.

I know this is very much work in progress but keep up the good work, can't wait to see what comes next..

[caspat]

It would be nice if we could schedule backup config.
Pat

[technocluster]

Configuration Backup - really good to have

[russman]

Configuration backup and storage would be nice too

This would be very nice. A config back for AC itself and a batch selection based download for configs of the APs. Would be really cool when downloading a batch of radio configs you could save using a radio button based naming scheme.
If we could select the naming scheme used to save the backups that would be extremly useful. The radio options we selected from the data in the config files. EX: pull string data SSID name, PPPOE username, and append AC timestamp.

Would also be nice if we could import and export kmz files from the map options.

Would be ridiculously awesome to tie in a ligowave type RF map coverage overlay to the map feature.

[UBNT-Thomas]

Configuration backup is one of the next things you are going to see in AirControl.

Map export is probably a bit further out, but it would most likely be KMZ when we do it.

[bobcopro]

The map export would be great. BTW - if you enter an address into the address field it moves you to the area, but doesn't actually mark it on the map like Google Earth does in their app. Anyway to get that? It helps when planning an install. Great work Thomas.

[pawpaw]

Is this still an active project? Downloaded it the other day again and it doesn't seem to be any further along.

Is the only purpose of this to look at signal strength and update firmware, or is it going to actually do something some day?

BTW - Maybe it should work on some protocol other than SSH, like SNMP? Or at least work with SSH certs rather than a passwd?

[UBNT-Thomas]

Release notes: http://www.ubnt.com/downloads/aircontrol/release_notes.html

SSH is used with key authentication for controlling the reporting communication from device to server, which is HTTP based.

[clarknova]

1. It would be great to be able to push a standard config to a group of radios, at least for initial deployment.

2. Also good would be the ability to see more device options from AirControl, rather than having to log into each unit individually. For example, we discovered today that we definitely need STP enabled in all our units. Would have been good to do this en masse, or at least be able to quickly check a table in AirControl to see which units we might have missed.

Great product. Thank you.

[bwatson]

I'm not sure if I requested this before or not, but it would be really great if you could create a dynamic watch group based on a network address and subnet mask instead of just an IP address string.

[bwatson]

Also, another suggestion:

It would be convenient if aircontrol would let me know when there is newer firmware available for my devices. The option to have aircontrol automatically download the newer fw in the background would be nice as well.

[bwatson]

One last thing:

It would also offer a little more visibility into the upgrade process if the green dot indicating a radio's status was changed to spinning arrows or something like that whenever a radio is getting it's fw updated.

I may be the only person who'd find this useful. If anyone else thinks it's a good idea, let UBNT know.

[bwatson]

A "notes" section would be nice for each radio. For example, another pane could be added at the bottom when you select a radio where you can insert text. That would make it much easier to log the history of repairs for a radio, or really any other information like WPA key, gps coordinates, etc.

[internetsaco]

could you add bits per second per interface with time intervall aka like cacti

also in not too sure about the reported traffic usage per antenna could you provide more info we already have some sort of formula to calculate traffic

an homade formula used with canopy to report month usage

[skyhigh]

Can we have an option to login or reboot a device via MAC address in AirControl? I have seen this alot that when the network change or the device renew its IP address Aircontrol will not update it until the device is rebooted. I just changed out my Radius Server few weeks ago and all my customers with the old IP address will show in aircontrol but cannot be managed because of the incorrect IP informaton on Aircontrol. So it would be great if we can somehow login to a radio by the mac level.

Thanks,

Sky High

[UBNT-Thomas]

Most folks manage devices in routed networks where devices are in subnets different from where AirControl runs. Connecting by MAC address is not possible at all because the management protocol is all layer 3 based. Retrieving the current IP address by MAC is also limited to the local subnet or would require access to all routers.

However, I would like to understand why you see the issue you mention above. Your managed devices report to AirControl periodically and they would also report their changed address which AirControl would update and use subsequently to connect. Make sure to use firmware 3.5.1 and 5.2 for this to work best.

If this does not work in your scenario, please create a separate thread for this or contact me via PM.

[skyhigh]

The issue came up when I had to install a new radius server on my network which all cusotmer at the time before the change was 192.168.255.1. The radius server I installed was a 172.16.0.0 address which was different from the one before. The new server installation went well but the customers cpe all didn't come back automaticially. AirControl would pick them up but would display the old address instead of the new. The only way for AirControl to see the changes was for the customer to reset the CPE at their house. If I was able to log in on the mac level then I could have rebooted the CPE myself so the customer wouldn't have to go through the trouble of resetting their CPE.

[knakkie]

i'd like an application called airbox (a ubnt version of the mikrotik winbox) so that we can have a gui to work in and do all the stuff that can't be done from the webinterface

[yirgach]

We've been using Aircontrol and it works fine. That is for all local devices. If we go outside our firewall and enter the public IP address for the Aircontrol server, then we can see our devices outside the firewall. However, we then loose contact with those devices inside the firewall.

Wouldn't it be better to add a Public Address/Port field to the server setup and just use that address for those devices outside the firewall? You would need to be a little bit smarter about connecting to devices outside the firewall/local network, but that should handle all cases (mebbe, I think...).

It does work, but we have to toggle the server address which is a real PITA. Either that or setup two Aircontrol servers, one for devices inside and another for devices outside the firewall. Seems unnecessary, unless we are missing something here.

Thanks for any info.

[UBNT-Thomas]

Permanent release notes link:

http://www.ubnt.com/downloads/aircontrol/release_notes.html

[UBNT-Thomas]

Wouldn't it be better to add a Public Address/Port field to the server setup and just use that address for those devices outside the firewall? You would need to be a little bit smarter about connecting to devices outside the firewall/local network, but that should handle all cases (mebbe, I think...).


Enter your public server address (and if applicable mapped HTTP port) under system settings. It will be used for all devices, local or routed subnet).

[yirgach]

Enter your public server address (and if applicable mapped HTTP port) under system settings. It will be used for all devices, local or routed subnet).

Thanks for the Big Hint! Just had to modify the firewall to redirect the internal traffic for port 9080 on the Public IP address back to the internal address of the Aircontrol server and they're all happy using the Public address.

Thanks again.

[tjohnson]

Feature request:

Be able to add a device as an "AP" (check box maybe?) and then have AirControl automatically add any devices that the "AP" is connected to.

[ded]

hello ! :icon_razz:

we would like to use bullet as CPE and AirControl could be interresting for our hotline but there is small things that make it impossible :

-we use dhcp so identify cpe by ip is not a possible(it would be better using MAC)

-we got a large number of cpe and large number of subnets so scanning them or adding them by hand is not possible.(it would be better that the bullet got the ip and port of the AirControl server to auto login using a secret for security)

thank's to the team to their great products

[vaden]

-we use dhcp so identify cpe by ip is not a possible(it would be better using MAC)


Since one of our slogans is "Bringing The Real Internet To Texomaland" we even have DNS FQDNs (both forward and reverse) for each of our customers. We use a static dhcp assignment line for each customer that matches the DNS.

Take care with IPAM. Avoid proprietary solutions. Said is fundamental to the Internet.

Exceptions only where prudent.

kind regards/ldv

[UBNT-Thomas]

hello ! :icon_razz:

we would like to use bullet as CPE and AirControl could be interresting for our hotline but there is small things that make it impossible :

-we use dhcp so identify cpe by ip is not a possible(it would be better using MAC)

-we got a large number of cpe and large number of subnets so scanning them or adding them by hand is not possible.(it would be better that the bullet got the ip and port of the AirControl server to auto login using a secret for security)

thank's to the team to their great products

You can schedule IP range scan(s) for as many subnets as needed that will find your CPEs. Then connect the radios. From there on, the radios communicate with AirControl and will also pass their changed IP address.

Make sure you use the lasted firmware versions for this to work (3.5.1 and 5.2.1).

There is no "auto-connect" option available at this time, though this is something that we will do in the future.

[internetsaco]

could you add bits per second per interface with time intervall aka like cacti

also in not too sure about the reported traffic usage per antenna could you provide more info we already have some sort of formula to calculate traffic

an homade formula used with canopy to report month usage

i already posted this suggestion troughput reported with aircontrol would be more practical presented in bits/sec on time intervall.

and are you sure about total bandwith downloaded. is it resetted every month beginning ?

[ded]

You can schedule IP range scan(s) for as many subnets as needed that will find your CPEs

rights but not sure that 1000 ranges could be scan correctly and quickly.
but we could wait for auto-connect.

the problem is now that bullet use 3.5.1 firmware that haven't got iperf.
and so we couldn't test bandwith with the server...
is there a bandwith test server for aircontrol in work or where could i found spec ?

[UBNT-Thomas]

rights but not sure that 1000 ranges could be scan correctly and quickly.
but we could wait for auto-connect.


Typically folks schedule range scans for off-peak hours, and the scans contain maybe 10 ranges, certainly not 1000. Auto-connect, when it is implemented, will also require you to setup a scan or to enter something in AirOS.


the problem is now that bullet use 3.5.1 firmware that haven't got iperf.
and so we couldn't test bandwith with the server...
is there a bandwith test server for aircontrol in work or where could i found spec ?

Currently we have no plans to implement a speed test server in AirControl. As for the specs of the proprietary 3.x AirOS speed test, please post this question on the firmware forum.

[bobcopro]

Just want to put in another vote for a simple note/text field for notes on the units.

[UBNT-Thomas]

Noted! ;-)

[bobcopro]

Clever! - must be feeling spunky today. That whole mess I had with stations going on and off line traced back to one NS2 with corrosion on the POE cable.

[internetsaco]

about the report traffic it should'nt be hard to implement since the math are already done in the web page of both m serie and legacy in the troughput section of the web interface


can you report the same value in airos ?????

[xsid]

System name and system location at the top of th web UI will welcome

[UBNT-Thomas]

Which system name and location? Are you referring to AirOS or AirControl?

[UBNT-Thomas]

about the report traffic it should'nt be hard to implement since the math are already done in the web page of both m serie and legacy in the troughput section of the web interface


can you report the same value in airos ?????

If you are referring to the TX/RX Rate shown on the AirOS main page, that is available in AirControl as wlanTxRate/wlanRxRate (use the column customizer to add it in your UI settings).

[Ant]

Is there a way when one clicks on a unit in Aircontrol in the lower boxes have it list the connected mac addresses and at what speed the mac is connected at? This is something that is already accessible on each unit under Main -> Stations but it would be nice to have it also in Air Control for quicker access and central monitoring.

Thanks.

[xsid]

Which system name and location? Are you referring to AirOS or AirControl?
excuse me if I was not clear, i rfefer to aircontrol : i deployed wireless networks in different locations, i will install aircontrol in this different places, and a system name and system location (something like we can find in snmp, fields to fill in, shown at the top of the web UI ) makes it easy when working on different sites simultaneously.

[internetsaco]

i think it was that... the rate is what is shown on the gui of let say m series on the bottom...

it's the same values??

iv'e selected them in the config menu thought it's not showing anything yet
everything is blank ....

possibles options are minutes,hour day. and offsetset to -1

but on the web ui it's a ratio bits/sec that we see. will it be the same value that will be presented in airos?

[UBNT-Thomas]

Below the rates shown in M-Series AirOS and in the graph. You may need to allow for some time for data to be collected in AirControl.

http://www.ubnt.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=1728&stc=1&d=1286218356

http://www.ubnt.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=1729&stc=1&d=1286218380

[internetsaco]

no thomas it's not not that it's the actual throughtput shown live on the bottom of the web page where you see bit/sec

why i's not reported in aircontrol?


http://www.ubnt.com/forum/showthread.php?t=22526

[internetsaco]

could it be possible to also add email notification option when a link is down ...


thx again

sylvain dubé

[UBNT-Thomas]

Yes, this will be coming.

[internetsaco]

when do you expect the next release?

[Bero]

Is there a posibility to restore backup config from one device (old) to another (new one). For example, we have backup config for device AP1 and AP1 is broken, we change hardware and want to restore config from backup.

Of course we dont download config to PC, backup is only in AirControl.

[beauresy]

Ability to send email or SMS on alert when a device stop or signal go below a level

[900mhzdude]

Ability to send email or SMS on alert when a device stop or signal go below a level

that would be awesome!

[UBNT-Thomas]

Yes, this is a much requested feature and we will have something not too far out.

[UBNT-Thomas]

Is there a posibility to restore backup config from one device (old) to another (new one). For example, we have backup config for device AP1 and AP1 is broken, we change hardware and want to restore config from backup.

Of course we dont download config to PC, backup is only in AirControl.

At the moment the only way to accomplish this is to save the backup from AirControl to your local drive and then upload it through the AirOS web UI.

[Bero]

At the moment the only way to accomplish this is to save the backup from AirControl to your local drive and then upload it through the AirOS web UI.

OK, but what when we dont have backup on local drive (only in AirControl) and the device stop working. Is there any chance to download backup config from AirControl from device that now not working?

[UBNT-Thomas]

Yes, you can download the backup from the "Configuration Backups" dialog (device details drop-down menu).

[Bero]

Hmm, but when device is power off, it will be disappear from AirControl, right?

[UBNT-Thomas]

It will appear with red status indicator showing as offline until you delete it.

[i3laze]

I'd like to see:
- Global (summary list with IP of APs) and local (per AP) Stations-list, with ability to kick.
- Global configuration of MAC ACL list.

Wasn't these above mentioned already? Sorry if it's so.

[lwq]

I'd like to see:

- Possibillity to open device's UI via AirControl = AC will be like relay which I will use to access UI on private addresses even when I'm connected to AC from remote place in Internet.

- Possibillity to e-mail or sftp transfer backuped device's configuration

- Possibility to do site survey on device remotely, from AC (to see an interferencing network, ...)

Thx :icon_smile:

[rconaway]

Add power setting in the list. This way we can quickly compare power output to CCQ%.

[UBNT-Thomas]

This can be done in 1.3.3 by mapping the configuration setting to an attribute.

[UBNT-Thomas]

I'd like to see:

- Possibillity to open device's UI via AirControl = AC will be like relay which I will use to access UI on private addresses even when I'm connected to AC from remote place in Internet.

We will have the ability to configure the devices from AirControl, which will eliminate the need to go to the web UI for most tasks. Tunneling the AirOS web UI access through the AirControl server is not something that we can do easily.

- Possibillity to e-mail or sftp transfer backuped device's configuration

You can download the configuration backup from AC to your local machine and then email/sftp from there. What would be scenario where you need to email/sftp it directly?

- Possibility to do site survey on device remotely, from AC (to see an interferencing network, ...)

That's something we will look into.

[rconaway]

Thank you Thomas.

[ether3al]

Not sure if these have been requested already but CBF reading anymore than the first & last page of this thread.

Scheduled firmware update & schedule configuration upload.

[UBNT-Thomas]

Firmware upgrade can already be scheduled, configuration upload not yet.

[pawpaw]

AirControl is shaping up nicely. Great job guys!

Three suggested additions:

1. Inventory tab (MAC-SN-Cust-Location) with export to csv.

2. SLA tab to setup network and individual service levels and ability to assign units/segments to SLA. Colored status to show SLA issues.

3. Bandwidth management tab with high water, low water, and percentiles to help us determine at a glance where bottlenecks are or will be in the near future; and stay ahead of SLA issues.

One more actually: the ability to add a coverage area overlay to the map and export it for use on our web site.

[UBNT-Thomas]

AirControl is shaping up nicely. Great job guys!

Three suggested additions:

1. Inventory tab (MAC-SN-Cust-Location) with export to csv.


Would that be another column in the device list with the customer address plus ability to export that list to TSV? We are going to add support for custom fields in the next release in which you can capture additional info for each device (entered in AirControl) and report/search on the same just like any other field.


2. SLA tab to setup network and individual service levels and ability to assign units/segments to SLA. Colored status to show SLA issues.


Are you looking for a % uptime report or more for thresholds that can trigger other actions?


3. Bandwidth management tab with high water, low water, and percentiles to help us determine at a glance where bottlenecks are or will be in the near future; and stay ahead of SLA issues.


Again, is the need more for list style reporting or more for notification?


One more actually: the ability to add a coverage area overlay to the map and export it for use on our web site.

Ability to add overlays coming in next release (but not export yet - you still need a big screen to capture the image :icon_wink:).

[pawpaw]

Would that be another column in the device list with the customer address plus ability to export that list to TSV? We are going to add support for custom fields in the next release in which you can capture additional info for each device (entered in AirControl) and report/search on the same just like any other field.

We may or may not be talking about the same thing, so...

I mean a tab/page that contains an inventory of all equipment. i.e.

NanoBridgeM5: 24
|_ Location: Backbone site 09, MAC: 00:15:01:01:01:AC, S/N: 01234567, Contact: Admin
|_ Location: 213 CR 54, MAC: 00:15:01:01:02:AC, S/N 01234567, Contact: Martha Desto

RocketM2: 9
|_ Location: Stock, MAC: 00:15:01:01:01:1C, S/N: 01234567, Contact: Admin

With sort by location, product, contact

And the ability to export csv to import into a dabase and/or spreadsheet.


Are you looking for a % uptime report or more for thresholds that can trigger other actions?

I'm talking about being able to create service level categories and setup latency and throughput thresholds for that SL and assign them to units and network segments (PtP, base station, cpe, etc). If the thresholds are not exceeded, status is green for SL, if not status turns red for effected units/segments assigned to SL that was violated.

Whether or not it triggers an action would be icing on the cake, but for now to be able to see that something is amiss in relation to service level guarantees would be great. So reporting by saved, grouped, specified criteria I guess.


Again, is the need more for list style reporting or more for notification?

Similar to service levels, but bandwidth only. A percentile reporting for backhauls would be a good start.

If you add the ability to script an action that gathers bits tx and rx at specified interval and subtract them from previous samples, then use those numbers along with sampling period and specified thresholds as factors to get a AVERAGED percentage of bandwidth used it would be a good start. We would need to specify devices and ports for each action in order to figure usage for any specific segment of the network. This could also be integrated with SLA to inform forecasting.


Ability to add overlays coming in next release (but not export yet - you still need a big screen to capture the image :icon_wink:).
Screencap is fine, but it would be cool to be able to link to it in real-time so customers could check network status if a site goes down, a higher gain antenna is installed, or power output is changed, etc.

[pawpaw]

Is there an API so we can write our own scripts and such to poll AirControl for collected data and generate our own reports? Maybe even push events/actions to AirControl?

[UBNT-Thomas]

Yes for current data extract, no for actions/changes at this time:

http://www.ubnt.com/forum/showthread.php?p=90866#post90866

[UBNT-Thomas]

We may or may not be talking about the same thing, so...

I mean a tab/page that contains an inventory of all equipment. i.e.

NanoBridgeM5: 24
|_ Location: Backbone site 09, MAC: 00:15:01:01:01:AC, S/N: 01234567, Contact: Admin
|_ Location: 213 CR 54, MAC: 00:15:01:01:02:AC, S/N 01234567, Contact: Martha Desto

RocketM2: 9
|_ Location: Stock, MAC: 00:15:01:01:01:1C, S/N: 01234567, Contact: Admin

With sort by location, product, contact

And the ability to export csv to import into a dabase and/or spreadsheet.

You would be able to define location, S/N and contact as custom fields and then enter them for your devices in AirControl. Then use them like the other attributes in the existing device list, including sort/search. Given the added cability to save the list as TSV, would that meet your needs?



Screencap is fine, but it would be cool to be able to link to it in real-time so customers could check network status if a site goes down, a higher gain antenna is installed, or power output is changed, etc.
The map is rendered in the browser by the Google Maps API, so we cannot provide for export of an image. What we will do at some point is to provide KML export for the map. This can be loaded into Google Earth or used with other applications that support the format.

[drwho17]

My installers currently take a picture of their installs and we store them on a network share with the username of the client. I was thinking maybe to have the option to store a picture attached to a record in aircontrol would be a nice feature. In case we need to revisit the site we could easily pull this up within aircontrol.

[MaximumISP]

Thomas any chance of adding other device like routers ect and have them pingable and gui browsable without AC trying to load the script on them or alternatively
have the scrpt load on open wrt based routers for example most of mine that are at each tower are Rs-Pros loaded with X-WRT

thnx

[UBNT-Thomas]

Max, you can manually add devices and should be able to access their web GUI and ping the units, w/o connecting. It is just that ping won't control the status under which devices are showing.

[MaximumISP]

Doesnt seem to work for me Thomas
dunno mayby its related to the apache changes you made
if you get bored some day you still have access
the test router I tried to add is 10.17.1.1

Thanks

[pawpaw]

You would be able to define location, S/N and contact as custom fields and then enter them for your devices in AirControl. Then use them like the other attributes in the existing device list, including sort/search. Given the added cability to save the list as TSV, would that meet your needs?


Not really. It might be usefull, but if I have to do all of that, I would just enter it in a separate asset database to begin with, the purpose for the CSV export.

And are you saying there is currently a way to export to TSV?


The map is rendered in the browser by the Google Maps API, so we cannot provide for export of an image. What we will do at some point is to provide KML export for the map. This can be loaded into Google Earth or used with other applications that support the format.

I didn't mean link to the actual image, that would be contrary to enabling customers to see real-time status. I meant link to the data that creates the map usiing the Google API. Then we could specify an overlay image, alpha, location, and size. And if you allow that size to be calculated based on power and gain, the overlay would resize acordingly.

The ability to add overlays to dead zones would be good as well. Then the composite of overlays would show coverage area with a fair degree of acuracy--of course a site survey would still be necessary as a final determination. But potential clients could make a fairly good determination as to whether they have a chance to get service, with obstacles in the LOS being a specified caveat on whatever page the map appears on.

[pawpaw]

An API would make it easy to implement our own functionality without waiting for you to implement it, if ever.

Are there plans to implement an API?

[pawpaw]

I would like to setup groups by location, company, whatever, and assign units to those groups. As it exists now the groups are filter/search groups which would be fine except that the limited filter criteria is gathered from the device and there currently is no way to add custom fields to each unit in AirOS, other than the SNMP fields which are not gathered by AC as far as I can see.

See screencap

[UBNT-Thomas]

As indicated in response to your earlier query: With the ability to define custom fields in AirControl coming with the next release, you will be able to group/search by custom fields! You will also be able to specify a grouping such as "AP-Groups" based on a field you select. Hierarchical folders won't be possible though. If you want to experiment with that send me PM.

[UBNT-Thomas]

An API would make it easy to implement our own functionality without waiting for you to implement it, if ever.

Are there plans to implement an API?

http://www.ubnt.com/forum/showthread.php?p=90866#post90866

[UBNT-Thomas]

I didn't mean link to the actual image, that would be contrary to enabling customers to see real-time status. I meant link to the data that creates the map usiing the Google API. Then we could specify an overlay image, alpha, location, and size. And if you allow that size to be calculated based on power and gain, the overlay would resize acordingly.

The ability to add overlays to dead zones would be good as well. Then the composite of overlays would show coverage area with a fair degree of acuracy--of course a site survey would still be necessary as a final determination. But potential clients could make a fairly good determination as to whether they have a chance to get service, with obstacles in the LOS being a specified caveat on whatever page the map appears on.

Export could be done with KML. We will let you add areas (colored polygons) to the map in the next AirControl release directly, which you can use for coverage or dead areas. Those will automatically respect the zoom level as bounds are defined in terms of longitude and latitude.

[UBNT-Thomas]

Doesnt seem to work for me Thomas
dunno mayby its related to the apache changes you made
if you get bored some day you still have access
the test router I tried to add is 10.17.1.1

Thanks

I assume you refer to the launch web UI portion? That's a bug. AirControl would look for AirOS version... I fixed that and put a newer build onto your system. Of course, the machine that runs the browser still needs to see 10.17.1.1 for this to work, but at least I could see that the browser now tries to go there.

[dudus]

Is there a possible to implement dynamic grouping by SSID?

[rohan]

I'd like to be able to get and set some information in Aircontrol via a command line interface or direct database manipulation.

1) I'd like to be able to set the GPS coordinates for a radio (by IP address or device name) in Aircontrol from a script.

2) I'd like to be able to read the LAN and WLAN IP address, SSID, and wireless mode (Station or AP) from a script.

The first request is to integrate Aircontrol more tightly with automatic provisioning.

The second is to be able to do automated trouble testing (I have a script that will ssh into each radio and ping the next hop and compare the results to a baseline one link at a time.) I can combine this information with the output of route -n to figure out the topology automatically.

I don't mind running a private build of aircontrol, and I don't mind pulling this information out of a some private/unpublished/subject-to-change db schema as long as I can try this out and see if it helps us out. We are providing backbone services to multiple service providers and it is important to isolate who's system needs to get the trouble ticket.

thanks,
-rohan

[ddiger]

Suggestion: Why not have aircontrol export the live data to a KMZ/KML file and give us the ability to import the live data into Google Earth as a >ADD >Network link.

[UBNT-Thomas]

Yes, that is something we will do in the future.

[UBNT-Thomas]

I'd like to be able to get and set some information in Aircontrol via a command line interface or direct database manipulation.

1) I'd like to be able to set the GPS coordinates for a radio (by IP address or device name) in Aircontrol from a script.


Currently that cannot be done outside of the map. However, with firmware 3.6 and 5.3 you will be able to set the geo-location on the device itself and it will be propagated to AirControl.

AirOS configuration through AirControl will come in the future.


2) I'd like to be able to read the LAN and WLAN IP address, SSID, and wireless mode (Station or AP) from a script.


http://www.ubnt.com/forum/showthread.php?p=90866#post90866

[lwq]

What about a speedtest for testing the link beetween specified IP and CPE which will be fully manageable via airControl ?

I mean - common CPE will have to do speedtest (and latency and another SLA params) against specified server (airControl) therefor in AC will be history for these test and full mgmt.

And why control this via AC ? To have option test one CPE at one time or whole group of CPEs to simulate high traffic and so on ...

Something like Cisco's SAA agents to measure and report SLA params ... :ubnt_banana:

BTW: It's Linux based baby ! :ubnt_banana::icon_twisted:

[UBNT-Thomas]

Currently you can run iperf between CPE and AirControl and launch the same from AirControl (AirOS 5.x devices). You can schedule ping from AirControl to CPE for latency, and wlanLatency as part of the statistics reported from the CPE is available for link latency.

[jimbouse]

My Wish:
I would like to see AirControl contain a 'Reverse Proxy' built in. This way, I can have all of my radio's on private 10.x.x.x addresses and be able to open their management pages within AirControl. This would make managing radios on private IP's much easier and wouldn't require me to remote into a server just to open a webpage.

Great work on AirControl though. It's amazing!

Thanks,
Jim

[i3laze]

My Wish:
I would like to see AirControl contain a 'Reverse Proxy' built in. This way, I can have all of my radio's on private 10.x.x.x addresses and be able to open their management pages within AirControl. This would make managing radios on private IP's much easier and wouldn't require me to remote into a server just to open a webpage.

Great work on AirControl though. It's amazing!

Thanks,
Jim
Though AirControl operates with CPE Private IPs, it would be logical to implement this feature (web-access).
We need an ability to configure devices.

Some security filters must be added to such proxy / ssh-parser.

P.S. Current workaround is port-forwarding to CPE's private IP on your "Public IP router".

[jimbouse]

Though AirControl operates with CPE Private IPs, it would be logical to implement this feature (web-access).
We need an ability to configure devices.

Some security filters must be added to such proxy / ssh-parser.

P.S. Current workaround is port-forwarding to CPE's private IP on your "Public IP router".

It is true that I can port forward the CPE's but it has to be done on a 1->1 basis. If I could only port forward the AirControl, then there are fewer vectors for intrusion and much less router management.

[UBNT-Thomas]

As far as access to the web UI goes, that's a matter of having connectivity from the host where the browser runs on to the individual radios. AirControl is not involved in that at all, it is simply a redirect to the AirOS web UI. Building a reverse proxy for that into AirControl would not be trivial.

Our direction is to make the AirOS configuration available in AirControl itself, so you won't need to go to the individual AirOS web UI ports most of the time.

As for AirControl interaction with radios, if they are behind NAT, there is support for SSH tunneling in AirControl. If that's what you are looking for send me PM for more info.

[bobcopro]

I would put in a vigorous vote for access to the units from within airControl. It would be really nice when accessing remotely. The only choice is to take over the desktop where airControl is running - not easy on a laptop since it's a 35" monitor on the PC.

[bconverse]

Simple text box for each node for notes

[marv]

1. config watchnig (backing up) with maybe history change. would be good to just download latest config of device which just died. And also appropriate triggers (send email when config changes).

2. collecting syslogs from devices

[bobcopro]

Both the "notes" field and scheduled backups (with choice of how many copies to keep) as well as email notification available in the latest version of AC. I use the first two, but haven't tried the last one yet.

[marv]

looks like i missed that somehow :)

anyway, i hope future versions will support event triggers for scheduled tasks completed successfully/unsuccessfuly and maybe diff between current config and the one before.

also i noticed backups not working for legacy abg devices (probably works since 3.6 ?)

[bconverse]

OK, I guess I am just dense - where is the notes field?

[UBNT-Thomas]

There is no notes field as such. AC lets you store structured info as custom fields though, that you can display, search, sort like any other field.

[iellison]

Hello Thomas,

Is there a way yet to remove a device from the management list through the API? If not, that would be a very useful addition for us.

Thanks!

[EMOziko]

1. mass password change
2. mass upgrade
3. mass configure\change configuration on devices

[bobcopro]

There is no notes field as such. AC lets you store structured info as custom fields though, that you can display, search, sort like any other field.

Unless you restart the service!

[rconaway]

Here is one. I would like AirControl to accumate the data based on date, not whether the radio reboots. For example, to use it to monitor users over a period of time, I need to know how much bandwidth they use from January 1 to January 31. If I reboot the radio or the client powers it down, that data is lost.

[drwho17]

Here is one. I would like AirControl to accumate the data based on date, not whether the radio reboots. For example, to use it to monitor users over a period of time, I need to know how much bandwidth they use from January 1 to January 31. If I reboot the radio or the client powers it down, that data is lost.
You need to utilize radius for this functionality, although AirControl probably could do it to.

[drwho17]

Thomas, how long before AirControl is capable of changing channel widths? I'm thinking about dropping down to 5 mhz wide channels.

[rconaway]

I do it now in my PatronSoft authentication software. I just like AirControl's reporting ability better.

[UBNT-Thomas]

Thomas, how long before AirControl is capable of changing channel widths? I'm thinking about dropping down to 5 mhz wide channels.

We have a development version that allows you to do that through the AirControl API:

http://www.ubnt.com/forum/showthread.php?p=143406#post143406

UI for this may be a bit out, we are first building the server support.

[UBNT-Thomas]

Hello Thomas,

Is there a way yet to remove a device from the management list through the API? If not, that would be a very useful addition for us.

Thanks!

This will be added.

[UBNT-Thomas]

Here is one. I would like AirControl to accumate the data based on date, not whether the radio reboots. For example, to use it to monitor users over a period of time, I need to know how much bandwidth they use from January 1 to January 31. If I reboot the radio or the client powers it down, that data is lost.

You could instruct AirControl to collect historic usage data (xxxBytes attributes). That data is then available through the graphs with hourly/daily/weekly aggregates. Or are you looking for something else?

[airnet-tech]

It would help us manage channels better if once you have your devices sorted into corresponding folders (ex. We have a "2.4 PtmP APs" folder without clients)
you have the option to change what the colour code legend shows on the Device Map. Right now it only shows different signal ranges. So for example, each device for that folder that is on the map will be a different colour based on channel. From there, we obviously already know our network and what deg sectors are where so picking out the best possible channel scheme would be much easier having a tool handy that shows our networks channel layout

[rconaway]

It would be nice if there was a single button that would download all new firmware and insert it into Air Control. Right now I have to download every file manually, then insert them manually into AirControl. With all the products out there, it takes a while.

[UBNT-Thomas]

BTW If you are upgrading a/b/g products from a recent version, you should be able to use the BulletX image for all other products except Pico2.

[rconaway]

Ha, yea I just found that out when I started my upgrades tonight. Thanks.

[EMOziko]

Please make Linux rpm installer for Redhat\CentOS\Fedora.

rpm is standart installer package for linux ( http://en.wikipedia.org
/wiki/Linux_Standard_Base#Choice_of_RPM_package_format ).

[EMOziko]

We need redhet\centos\fedora RPM installer :)

[thegreatoz]

I would like to see some inventory controls with the ability to import/export CSV files with MAC, IP and Hostname fields

[portinelli]

It would be a great tool able to manage clients that connect through APs in control of the Air. Through connection of radios to the DB Air control

[UBNT-Thomas]

I would like to see some inventory controls with the ability to import/export CSV files with MAC, IP and Hostname fields

There is no button for this in the UI yet, but you can get device list as TSV or JSON through the API:

http://www.ubnt.com/downloads/aircontrol/upd137/aircontrol-api-alpha.pdf

[Sirhc]

There is not button for this in the UI but you can get device list as TSV or JSON through the API:

http://www.ubnt.com/downloads/aircontrol/upd137/aircontrol-api-alpha.pdf

Oh Thomas my friend, when are you going to learn, if it's not in the GUI us dummies will not use it! :smilielol5:

We want EVERYTHING in the GUI, even things we will never use!

[UBNT-Thomas]

Chris, let's keep that in PowerPoint for now. :idea: Meanwhile, we can cover things like configuration support through the GUI. Back to topic, a device list export today from the browser is as complicated as:

http://localhost:9080/api/devicegroup/All%20Devices?auth.user=ubnt&auth.password=ubnt

[frankg]

Here's a small request...

make the buttons in the device list frame persistent, and gray out the ones that are not active, instead of having them pop in and out.

That would help me not hit the 1-click reboot button when I mean to hit the webgui one...

[frankg]

While I'm looking at minor annoyances :icon_wink:

Could the Legend for the statistics graph be below the graph so it doesn't hide data points?

Thanks!

BTW, this is turning out to be an awesome management app.

[sxpert]

most of my remarks will be with the "map" feature.

* allow for opening map in separate browser tab
* add a way to display the devices in a circle when all icons are on top of each other, like google earth does
* add a red / green mode for each device and link; that updates in "real time"

extra ideas

* real time kml export to google earth ;)

extra-extra :

* integrate unifi into the same app ;)

[frankg]

* add a way to display the devices in a circle when all icons are on top of each other, like google earth does

+1 to that!


* real time kml export to google earth ;)


All you have to do for this is serve the kml data from a webserver. Then add a network link to Google Earth... I already do this with a simple perl cgi to look at customer data from a database (not from aircontrol as yet).

Big +1 there.

[kbloch]

On the statistics graphs it would be nice to have the values in bits per second instead of or in addition to bytes per minute. As an example instead of showig that 125 Mbytes were sent in the last minute it would show 16.66 Mbits/second. Since all speeds to a customer etc are usually specified as bits per second this would make more sense.

[UBNT-Thomas]

The intent of showing TX/RX bytes/packets/errors etc. as unit / interval is to make it easy to see bandwidth usage etc. over time. Of course, one can always multiply bps by the number of seconds to get back to the interval total, but isn't that a bit cumbersome when looking at an hourly or daily graph? Showing both would make the graph crowded. The only other option I see at the moment is to add a check box to the graph to switch between unit/interval and unit/s for aggregate values. Showing bits instead of bytes is a separate matter, we will support that in a future release.

[UBNT-Thomas]

+1 to that!



All you have to do for this is serve the kml data from a webserver. Then add a network link to Google Earth... I already do this with a simple perl cgi to look at customer data from a database (not from aircontrol as yet).

Big +1 there.

1.3.7 will have the ability for you to pull the KML through the API. That should allow you to pull the KML directly from AC into Google Earth.

[sxpert]

Since all speeds to a customer etc are usually specified as bits per second this would make more sense.

also, showing the 95th percentile line over the last month would be a good idea

[RavenWing71]

Here's a small request...

make the buttons in the device list frame persistent, and gray out the ones that are not active, instead of having them pop in and out.

That would help me not hit the 1-click reboot button when I mean to hit the webgui one...

I Second this one. I have had the same problem.

[thegreatoz]

We had to stop using because of all the overhead and half open tcp connections. In just a minute or two after starting aircontrol, a netstat command resulted in 20 plus pages of half-open connections. The stack was nearly full and was affecting the mikrotik that the pc was connected to.

[supernut]

ability to add a custom column to each ap/cpe listed so we can add our own short info to it like clients name that the cpe is assigned to?

right now we rename the CPE with the clients name but would like to use AC to do that, this would help with support calls.

[UBNT-Thomas]

That's already there. Add custom attribute in the "Attribute Configuration" dialog.

[succeednet]

Dependency tree setup and structure
and the ability to define custom user groups and their settings

[Moorsweb]

Another feature that would help WISP's: Speed / Plan configurations.

If you had a tab similar to the firmware tab where we could load plans and speeds such as Basic 512/512, standard 1024/1024 and Fast, 1500,1500 then apply a plan to a radios throttling configuration (which aircontrol just needs to push out the speed configuration and reboot the device) then that would make it easy to mass-alter or easily alter a customers plan.
This option gets my vote as an extremely useful client management feature. This would be much better than the current approach of manually setting each client's traffic shaping manually as I do today.

Cheers, Barry.

[djth]

I like that idea

[OSKnet]

The new version of the program, there is no system of network management statistics. It would be nice to receive full stats on various parameters. In the previous version was statistics, but appear incorrectly. For example display summary ccq derived, rather than the average for each user. Another problem in displaying the map coverage areas-in any sense of power from the minimum to the maximum display range of a range, it would be logical for different power different RADIUS.

[Bigman397]

My quick list of items!

-external database support: mysql, postgres, etc...
-better 64bit support
-native compiled binaries, java is a pain.

[myhotzone]

I would like to have segmented user access so that I can assign user privileges to read only accounts so that certain users can only see devices in certain groups.

[jb_008]

I second this. I would like to see the ability to allow specific users to only see specific radio's. My reason for this is I want to allow resellers to connect to the server to see their own customers radio's when troubleshooting. This way they only see their clients and not everyone. I currently have this setup with cacti graphing my current radio's, I get to see all the radio's but with their log on they only see their own customers stats.

Another thing that would be nice too with this is to allow certain permissions, like the ability to set if they can reboot the radio, but say not allowed to firmware upgrades... This way we can set what we want them to have access to. This would also be nice for our tech support too because they should not be making config changes but should be able to reboot cpe radio's, see the signal, do speed tests...

Last thing I just noticed is you can't remove users, this would be nice too, not just to deactivate them.

[wispwest]

I'm sure this has already been mentioned, but a MASS PASSWORD UPDATER/CHANGER would be exclusive. Would it be possible?

[UBNT-Thomas]

Possible through API only at this time:

http://www.ubnt.com/downloads/aircontrol/aircontrol-api-alpha.pdf

UI supports only single device change in 1.3.8, mass config support will be added soon.

[Paetur]

Feature Request :

Seperate Horizontal and Vertical Signal Strength. (Customize List)

/Paetur

[gmarchionni]

i tried to make a line, but the area tool won't permit to setup a area of only 2 points.
Please add a feature to create lines, like google maps has.

Thanks!

[succeednet]

On mass config change of AC connection items to device AC needs to be updated at same time of CLI Mass config to radio, IE:

http/s port
ssh port

Other wise you have to make sql db changes manually after you change the device setting.

[Paetur]

make the buttons in the device list frame persistent, and gray out the ones that are not active, instead of having them pop in and out.

That would help me not hit the 1-click reboot button when I mean to hit the webgui one...

+1 for this, damn 1-click reboot.


* allow for opening map in separate browser tab
* add a way to display the devices in a circle when all icons are on top of each other, like google earth does


+1 Here also

Dependency tree setup and structure
and the ability to define custom user groups and their settings

Knowing what cpe is on what ap with multiple AP with 1 SSID. +1.


-external database support: mysql, postgres, etc...
-better 64bit support
-native compiled binaries, java is a pain.

+1, YES PLEASE

I didn't read the whole thread, just the last couple of pages, there are a lot of good ideas.

We use sql, radius, pppoe, mikrotik hotspot, so we don't do manual editing on every AP/CPE, but some mass configuration are nice.

SNMP support, or something alike, for non-UBNT devices like mikrotik, I would pay to see such a feature. No more 1 software solution per vendor.

[bobcopro]

+1 for this, damn 1-click reboot.



+1 Here also



Knowing what cpe is on what ap with multiple AP with 1 SSID. +1.



+1, YES PLEASE

I didn't read the whole thread, just the last couple of pages, there are a lot of good ideas.

We use sql, radius, pppoe, mikrotik hotspot, so we don't do manual editing on every AP/CPE, but some mass configuration are nice.

SNMP support, or something alike, for non-UBNT devices like mikrotik, I would pay to see such a feature. No more 1 software solution per vendor.

I would strongly agree with all of these (last one's iffy for me). The Google Map in a separate tab would be REALLY nice - also if it would update while it's up.

Also, as for the buttons - I'd really like the standard ability to list text under the Icon so I could more readily find the correct button (I'm old).

I'd like to take a moment and thank Thomas for the excellent work he's put into this and his responsiveness. Having the system send my cellphone a text when something goes off-line gives me a great deal of freedom that wasn't there before. Thank you.

[Paetur]

I'd like to take a moment and thank Thomas for the excellent work he's put into this and his responsiveness. Having the system send my cellphone a text when something goes off-line gives me a great deal of freedom that wasn't there before. Thank you.

+1

/Paetur

[zappulec]

AirControl shows for all devices only mode of the STA or AP. Is it possible to AirControl show where it is set to mode AP WDS and STA WDS ?

[bobcopro]

Thomas,

Looking at the last update there's 2 thoughts that keep coming to mind. One is to be able to get the unit to show you the results of a site survey (so I can see what units are available to it). The big one that jumps out is the "Show source" button. Is there a way to make changes to that source and get them to apply? That would be wicked handy. As far as I'm concerned you could skip all the rest if you could do that.

I look at this totally from the ability to be doing this remotely (outside the network). On that note - the ability to bring up the Google map remotely now is very nice. BTW - mine still doesn't show all the connections on the map - like the first peers off the tower don't have lines, but the ones beyond them do. Is there a way to force it to "redraw" or "rediscover" the map?

[MaximumISP]

Nice work Thomas
if possible could you please include Time Zone changes
in the mass configuration options

[jb_008]

One thing that would be nice is to build a Cacti like graph into AC. Basically to be able to graph signal, noise and bandwidth over time. This way you can see if something has changed over time, or if you have a really bandwidth hungry client...

[Alfabi]

One thing that would be nice is to build a Cacti like graph into AC. Basically to be able to graph signal, noise and bandwidth over time. This way you can see if something has changed over time, or if you have a really bandwidth hungry client...

yeh, usefull option

[UBNT-Thomas]

Graphs are available: http://www.ubnt.com/wiki/AirControl#Device_Details

[jnennemann]

Adding the ability to monitor non-ubnt devices would be a great help to me. I am transitioning from some old CPEs to UBNT, but over a long period of time. I would still like to know if these devices are up or down and be sent an alert if necessary. The same would be useful for routers, switches and other devices. PLEASE INCLUDE the ability to monitor non-UBNT devices!
[Great product, though!!! I am really sold on UBNT!]

[mantincor]

Activate and desactivar the devices with double click in sees to give him properties with the right click , serious a form but rapida to activate and desactivar the AP... Greetings...:icon_biggrin:

[Xtreme Wifi]

Bandwidth Control would be great to limit the customers too

[900mhzdude]

Captive Portal and Radius NAS Settings would be Awesome

Something like CoovaChilli already in the Firmware would be Awesome!

[pacmanfan]

Have just watched the Microcom webinar, I'm excited about the rapid deployment feature of the new AirController. Now I'll chime in with a few other feature requests.

1) Scheduled and/or batched WPA key changes. This can tie into topography. Right now it's a tedius job to update WPA keys across my network, and knowing my topography is critical to pulling them off smoothly.

2) Option for firmware push to bypass CPE rate limit. The reason for this should be obvious.

3) Fix the darned graph refresh bug that exists with the current release. It's incredibly annoying to try and select statistic types from the dropdown.

[microcom]

If anyone missed last week's Microcom/Ubiquiti webinar, please feel free to watch on our YouTube channel:

http://www.youtube.com/MicrocomTechnologies (http://www.youtube.com/MicrocomTechnologies)

[yann]

Hi something i'd like to do is auto configuration of devices when added to a network

I have to manage several distant networks

what i wish would be :
-Associate a conf file to a group

-when I install a new CPE : either Aircontrol discover It asap or the CPE say hello to Aircontrol
-then the Group conf file is applied to this CPE

Maybe with a radius module we could be able to generate a conf file and upload it when CPE is discovered


I wish i'm clear
sorry for my english
thanks

[knightmb]

My Wishlist:

Add a "are you sure?" configuration for "Remove Selected Devices" because I was trying to remove a large group of devices from a group and hit the wrong menu by accident and wiped them all out, grrr!
Add the ability to "ping" unmanaged devices and be able to setup rules against them just like real Ubnt devices. This way you can add a switch or other non-Ubnt devices to the monitor and just use a simple ping to keep track if the device is working or not. This would allow you to create an e-mail notification rule against the device/group as well.

[Nanflexal]

Captive Portal and Radius NAS Settings would be Awesome

Something like CoovaChilli already in the Firmware would be Awesome!

I second to this request. Please consider this feature because it will provide complete solution for WISP operator worldwide.

[DrJ3kyll]

Based on 1.4.2-beta with about 2000 managed devices

1) Cannot see in which groups does selected unit belong (I'am able to remove unit from group inly If I'am using that group view)

2) Could users from admin group see stored login:pass?

3) On batch tasks (execute command, upgrade firmware, etc.) could units where the task was unsuccessfull appear somewhere else, than in log? For example in new group "Failed task" or something..

4) When trying to assign mulitple devices to a group if one device is already assigned to this group, the rest of units is not assigned.

thx

[coairnet]

Can we get the ability to nest groups? I'd love to be able to put Site > Sector > etc and if I click the site see all devices in that group, dial down to the sector, etc.

I'm seconding the captive portal but for another reason, I'd love to see UBNT pair some type of captive portal with this that allows you to put "Your service has been deactivated because you didn't pay your bill, call 1-800-PAY-MORE and get your service reconnected for a nominal fee" A slick way to do this would be to use a proxy (squid or a lighter proxy) with a content filter on the box running air control, set it up to disallow all traffic except what you want (I.E. a link to your CMS or whatever you are using) and a few configurable error pages. Then you could easily click on a CPE in AirControl, say "Change Status" or whatever to "Unpaid", "Inactive", "Moved", etc. We have some locations that were rented houses, customer moved out, leave the equipment and have a hook into the next guy that moves in before he decides to get DSL or whatever. It'd be great to be able to select the page they would see iptables block everything but port 80 on the CPE and forward all port 80 to the AirControl captive portal.

I'd also like to echo the simple monitoring of other devices. I'm tired of running Nagios, AirControl, Cacti, etc etc etc just to know what is going on around here... I'd drop Nagios in a second if I could monitor all the devices through AirControl. Just a simple ping or SNMP check would be fine. "Add Non-Ubiquiti Device" option with IP, SNMP Community, username/password and a drop down to select device type. Can we get a template style system for the device parameters so you could do like Cacti and add a device template to monitor say APC UPS or other non-Ubiquiti hardware?

[voxframe]

I'll post this in a separate thread as well as the wish list.

For the new Aircontroller (ETA Anyone? Beuller??)

MASS CONFIG CHANGES!!!!
=====================
-Country codes
-Time server
-Time zones
-SNMP configs

(OK **** it, EVERYTHING! There's no reason why it can't be done!)

Better dynamic IP tracking!!!!!!!!!!!
(This was a serious problem before, I don't think it was addressed)

Simple solution flow
-----------------------------------
1) AC opens a session ID/Cookie with the radio
2) This ID/Cookie contains a session ID, as well as parameters to reach AC server (Address)
3) AC issues the changes to be done
4) Radio reboots/applies/explodes
5) After a per-determined time, (2 minutes??)
- Radio picks up this session ID/Cookie
- Radio contacts the AC server with the info in the cookie
- Radio sends session ID to AC
- AC Sees this ID from a new radio address and associates it with the previous radio. AC changes the old address to the effective new one.

No more lost radios. (Feel free to add features and pay me for copyright) :icon_mrgreen:

[Renaud]

Given the amazing number of new Ubiquiti devices, like aircam, toughswitch, ... I was wondering if it would be possible to monitor and control firmwares and configs from aircontrol. That would really be amazing and would simplify work for people with many devices from Ubiquiti, and provide a good unity between them.

[ptfuzi]

dns support!??

[Ant]

Could the new aircontrol software tap into the GPS software on Access Points and Stations to automatically locate and position the units on the network layout map? I realize this would require stations to also be GPS units, but it would help with device tracking for those of us that usually lease the equipment to subscribers.

Thanks.

[bishal]

Grouping AP devices and permission for configuration changes as per APs or group.

[lsdeemd]

direct POE to switch.