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WLAN

The Network

Tocco has an internal WLAN consisting of seven UniFi APs [1], six of them in use.

Type

Location

IP

Status

UniFi AC HD

2nd floor Administration

10.27.254.91

unused

UniFi AC HD

2nd floor PL Büro

10.27.254.12

in use

UniFi AC HD

2nd floor BS

10.27.254.4

in use

UniFi AC HD

2nd floor Sales Büro

10.27.254.9

in use

UniFi AC HD

1st floor Sitzungszimmer

10.27.254.90

in use

UniFi AC HD

1st floor Dev / DevOps

10.27.254.6

in use

UniFi AC HD

1st floor Glasraum

10.27.254.88

in use

Two wireless networks are available for end users:

  • tocco

  • tocco-guests

Hint

Printing is only available while connected to the tocco network.

Access the Control Software

The network and the APs are managed via the UniFi web interface. UniFi was originally hosted on Host03A as a VM. It now runs on a physical device (UniFi Cloud Key Gen2 Plus) in the office on the first floor:

Location:

DevOps-Office, inside the rack, underneath the switch

IP:

10.27.254.87

Credentials:

Bitwarden or Ansible Vault

To set up the device, see the official documentation.

  1. Open a browser and navigate to https://10.27.254.87. The credentials are stored in Bitwarden or in the Ansible Vault. See secrets.yml.

  2. The UniFi control panel will open.

UniFi Control Panel

The control panel has a very intuitive design, but there are two basic interfaces that we need in order to configure and maintain the WLANs.

  1. The panel for devices. Here you can manage all the APs (update, restart).

    ../../_images/unifi_device_panel.png

    The device panel with all adopted APs.

  2. The panel for WLANs. You can find it in the settings tooltip. Just click the button named WiFi. The panel then opens and shows all available WLANs. After a reset of the APs, the WLANs have to be configured as shown below.

    ../../_images/unifi_network_setting_panel.png

    Wireless network settings.

  3. Change the guest WLAN password from time to time, and remember to update the corresponding Bitwarden entry as well.

    ../../_images/unifi_change_guest_pw.png

    Changing the guest WLAN password.

Footnotes