User Guide

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UniFi Controller User Guide
Ubiquiti Networks, Inc.
Chapter 6: Devices
Actions Click a button to perform the desired action:
• Locate Click
to flash the Status LED on the
Gateway/Switch and its icon on the Map tab so you can
locate it. The LED will flash until the Locate button is
clicked again. (The icon on the Map tab will flash three
times and stop.)
• Restart Click
to restart the selected device.
• Upgrade If a software upgrade is available for the
device, click
to install the latest UniFi firmware
on the device. The Status will appear as Upgrading until
the process is complete and the device reconnects to
the UniFi Controller software.
• Adopt Click
to adopt a device that appears as
Pending Approval for its status. The Status will appear as
Adopting until the device is connected.
APs
You can apply one of the following filters to display
different status information:
• Overview Displays the number of clients, amount
of data downloaded, amount of data uploaded, and
channel setting.
• Config Displays the WLAN and radio settings for the
2.4GHz and 5 GHz radio bands.
• Performance Displays the number of 2.4 and 5GHz
clients, overall transmit rate, overall receive rate, 2.4 and
5 GHz transmit rates, and channel setting.
On any sub-tab, you can initiate a rolling upgrade of the
firmware for all APs.
Start Rolling Upgrade Click to begin
automatically upgrading APs, one by one, except for
wirelessly uplinked APs, which are intentionally excluded
from upgrading.
Overview
(icon) Displays the icon corresponding to the AP model
(not all icons are shown below):
UniFi AP AC
UniFi AP Pro, UniFi AP AC Lite/LR/Pro
UniFi AP/AP LR
UniFi AP AC Outdoor
UniFi AP Outdoor+
UniFi AP Outdoor5
The LED color of the icon indicates the device status.
• Blue/Green Indicates the device is connected.
• Red/Orange Indicates the device is disconnected or
not managed by this site (Pending Approval or Managed
by Other).
Name/MAC Address Displays the hostname, alias, or
MAC address of the AP. You can click the name to get
additional details; see “UniFi Access Point Details” on
page 83 for more information.
IP Address Displays the IP address of the AP.
Status Displays the connection status.
• Connected The AP is physically wired to thenetwork.
• Connected (100 FDX) The AP is physically wired to the
network at 100 Mbps in full-duplex mode.
• Connected (wireless) The AP is wirelessly uplinked to a
physically wired AP.
• Disconnected The AP is unreachable by the UniFi
Controller software.
• Isolated A managed AP is unable to locate itsuplink.
• Managed by Other The AP is not in the default state
but it is not controlled by the UniFi Controller.
• Pending Approval The AP is in the default state and is
available for adoption.
Only the super admin – not any site admin – can view
devices that are Pending Approval and then adopt them
on the UniFi Controller.
Note: The super admin account was created
during the initial installation; for more
information, see “Configuring the UniFi
Controller Software” on page 2.
Model Displays the model name of the UniFi device.
Clients Displays the number of clients connected to
theAP.
Down Displays the total amount of data downloaded by
the AP.
Up Displays the total amount of data uploaded by the AP.
Channel Displays the transmit/receive channel being
used by the AP. The radio band is represented as (ng) for
2.4 GHz and (na)/(ac) for 5 GHz.