Ubiquiti USG site to site VPN with a single controller

Quick note about how to make this work.  If you want to have two Unifi Security Gateways connect to a single controller at one location, you need to open up a couple of ports.  Specifically, 8080 and 8443 need to be open to the controller.  I strongly suggest you make…

Poor trunk labeling

Just a reference for anyone trying to create a trunk between Dell and Ubiquiti switches.  In my case, I wanted to create a trunk between a Dell N2048P and a Ubiquiti Edge Switch, with a native VLAN in use across the trunk.  They both seem to have the notion of…

Raspberry Pi Zero W headless setup

There seems to be conflicting info out there for how to accomplish this.  Compounded with the Zero's different micro ports, it's easier if you can set it up as a headless device.  Unfortunately, I found that if you try to do this locally, with a monitor…

My Grafana dashboard

With all of this tutorial publishing I've been doing for Grafana, I have neglected to post what mine currently looks like.  So, here it is.  This is the 1080P version.  I also built an iPad version that has a lot of the same info but compressed for the…

Unifi APs in Grafana using SNMP

This is kind of goofy with how Ubiquiti doesn't do well at supporting SNMP.  For one thing, they don't support it through the controller, only directly to each AP.  But, you have to enable it at the controller to have it flip the switch on the…

Unraid shell script for getting stats into Grafana

Continuing the documentation effort.  This is a shell script you run from Unraid in a cron job to feed stats to InfluxDB.  You can then present them in Grafana.  Note about that, I was having a lot of trouble getting the Grafana graphs to present correctly for anything coming from…

Telegraf mixed SNMP config

Following my previous post about Grafana, once everything is installed you'll want to capture some data.  Otherwise, what's the point.  Telegraf is a data gathering tool made by Influxdata.  It's stupid simple to get working with InfluxDB.  After following the previous script, go to…

Grafana on Ubuntu 16.04...easy, I think

Just went through setting up Grafana on Ubuntu 16.04 and thought I would grab the steps I went through.  I'm using a combination of Telegraf and some custom remote scripts to get data into InfluxDB. sudo systemctl enable grafana-server.service sudo systemctl enable telegraf.service sudo reboot…