localzuk Posted May 31, 2017 Posted May 31, 2017 Just saw that version 10 firmware is now out for the ZD1200. Has anyone updated to this yet? Any issues if you have?
stuartp44 Posted May 31, 2017 Posted May 31, 2017 I have updated to the latest firmware on our ZoneDirector 3000 and the new features are just what the doctor ordered. Not had any issues and are loving the new interface!
localzuk Posted May 31, 2017 Author Posted May 31, 2017 (edited) What is new in the new firmware? From the release notes:Enhancements and Resolved Issues This section lists new features and enhancements that have been added in this release and resolved issues from previous releases. New Access Points • New Access Point: R720 The R720 is a new dual-band concurrent 4x4:4 802.11ac Wave 2 access point capable of 160 MHz and 80+80 MHz channelization, designed for high density indoor applications. The R720 features one 10/100/1000 Ethernet port, and one 100/1000/2500 Ethernet port that supports 802.3af and 802.3at Power Over Ethernet (PoE), and a USB port for IoT applications. See Known Issues for more information on R720 limitations/power supply considerations. Enhancements • Increased ZoneDirector 1200 Capacity Limits The maximum AP and client limits that ZoneDirector 1200 supports has been increased. The max number of APs has been increased from 75 to 150, and the max clients/DPSKs/guest passes has been increased from 2,000 to 4,000. The max number of temporary licenses remains 75. • New User Interface This release includes an updated and redesigned web user interface. The new UI provides an updated layout, updated network health dashboard overview, reorganized menu structure, and a new map view interface based on Google Maps. • New AP Model Support This feature allows admins to import a new AP model patch file to ZoneDirector to add new AP models without requiring a full upgrade of the ZoneDirector firmware. In this way, new APs can be introduced without the need to wait for the next ZD firmware release. Enhancements ZoneDirector Version 10.0 Release Notes, 800-71471-001 Rev B 9 • Bonjour Fencing Bonjour Fencing provides a mechanism to limit the scope of Bonjour (mDNS) service discovery in the physical/spatial domain. While Bonjour Fencing is related to Bonjour Gateway, they are two separate features designed for different purposes. Bonjour Gateway bridges mDNS services across VLANs, and is useful because Bonjour is designed as a same-VLAN protocol. Bonjour Fencing limits the range of Bonjour service discovery within physical space, which is useful because logical network boundaries (VLANs) do not always correlate well to physical boundaries within a building/floor. • RADIUS CoA Message Support Added support for RADIUS Change of Authorization (CoA) messages. CoA enables the dynamic reconfiguring of sessions from external authentication, authorization, and accounting (AAA) servers. The following CoA attributes are supported in this release: • Idle timeout • Session Timeout • Accounting interval • Uplink rate limit • Downlink rate limit • Filter ID (ACL ID) • Role Based and Named ACL The Role Based ACL feature allows admins to apply different access controls to different groups of users based on role. This enhancement complements the existing per-WLAN ACL functionality by providing another way to enforce access control rules without the need to create separate WLANs for different user groups. • 160 MHz and 80+80 MHz Channelization for R720 and T610 • BSS Min Rate, OFDM Only and Mgmt Tx Rate Added the ability to set BSS Min Rate, OFDM Only and Mgmt Tx Rate in WLAN configuration forms. These options can be configured to improve overall throughput capacity and prevent older 802.11b clients from joining in high density environments. • Per-SSID Rate Limiting Enhancements ZoneDirector Version 10.0 Release Notes, 800-71471-001 Rev B 10 Added the option to configure rate limiting on a per-WLAN basis (in addition to the existing per-user rate limiting). If per-SSID rate limiting is enabled, per-user rate limiting is disabled. • Application Recognition and Control Enhancements This release adds the ability to import new application signature packages to ZoneDirector to update the list of system-defined applications, and the ability to define QoS traffic shaping and rate limiting on a per-application basis. • 802.11w Protected Management Frames Added the ability to enable management frame protection for any WPA2-AES (either 802.1X or PSK) encrypted WLANs. The Protected Management Frame (PMF) also known as Management Frame Protection (MFP) is defined in 802.11w to protect 802.11 Robust Management frames, including Disassociation, Deauthentication, and Robust Action frames. • Spectrum Analysis Spectrum Analysis is now supported on all 802.11ac Wave 1 and Wave 2 APs. • 802.1X WLAN Performance Enhancement Improved 802.1X handling procedures to prevent overloading in high density 802.1X environments. • Captive Portal WLAN Performance Enhancement This enhancement improves handling of captive portal service by offloading the process to the AP, reducing the impact on ZoneDirector’s resources. Additionally, several enhancements have been made to ZoneDirector to improve handling of HTTP/HTTPS requests and authentication rate. • Guest Access Enhancements Guest access options have been redesigned to allow greater flexibility and convenience for both admin-generated guest passes and self-service guest passes. The guest pass generation workflow has been updated, and guest passes can now be generated and managed from the Monitor page as well as the configuration page. • The Self-Service Guest Pass sponsor email now contains ZoneDirector’s IP address. • Added the ability to manually approve AP join requests via CLI command. Edited May 31, 2017 by localzuk 1
DJ-1701 Posted May 31, 2017 Posted May 31, 2017 I've only started using the console to any extent since we had it installed a month or two ago in the Primary, so not even sure where to get the updated firmware. No doubt it will be easy to find on the website though.
Net-Ctrl Posted May 31, 2017 Posted May 31, 2017 We haven't heard of any issues yet. The new FW comes with a GUI refresh for the ZoneDirectors to make it look like the SmartZone, which has gone down pretty well
timbo343 Posted May 31, 2017 Posted May 31, 2017 Moved over here a few days ago and getting to grips with it, i did like the old colour scheme though, maybe ruckus could add a bit more orange into it.
ass17 Posted June 1, 2017 Posted June 1, 2017 We are stuck on 9.8, can't upgrade to 10 as it doesn't support 7363 APs. We have 76 of them. [emoji24]
Net-Ctrl Posted June 1, 2017 Posted June 1, 2017 We are stuck on 9.8, can't upgrade to 10 as it doesn't support 7363 APs. We have 76 of them. [emoji24] Ruckus currently have a trade-up promotion running giving additional discounts when users upgrade old APs. If you'd be interested to see some pricing, send me a PM and we will look at what we can do
ass17 Posted June 1, 2017 Posted June 1, 2017 Ruckus currently have a trade-up promotion running giving additional discounts when users upgrade old APs. If you'd be interested to see some pricing, send me a PM and we will look at what we can do Thanks but no money in the coffers to replace that many
DJ-1701 Posted June 5, 2017 Posted June 5, 2017 I've only started using the console to any extent since we had it installed a month or two ago in the Primary, so not even sure where to get the updated firmware. No doubt it will be easy to find on the website though. We haven't heard of any issues yet. The new FW comes with a GUI refresh for the ZoneDirectors to make it look like the SmartZone, which has gone down pretty well Well, it seems that the brilliant @Net-Ctrl has actually sent me over the firmware update on the day I previously posted on the thread. Got to love a company that solves things before they get raised! It did take me a while to notice though as I'm not in at the Primary over term breaks. Updated firmware installed perfectly, now I just have to get used to the new interface. No issues so far and Cacti showed the clients reconnected fine after the firmware update as well. 3
armadillo Posted June 23, 2017 Posted June 23, 2017 We are stuck on 9.8, can't upgrade to 10 as it doesn't support 7363 APs. We have 76 of them. [emoji24] we are the same eher, on version 9.8 and have 40 7363 APs. I hope Ruckus their software backward compatible like other do, that's the only downside.
timbo343 Posted June 29, 2017 Posted June 29, 2017 I may have found a bug in Version 10 or it's a problem with the R510 access points. We have 2 open SSIDs, one for staff and one for 6th form to connect to (long story - to do with smoothwall and ruckus not talking correctly) and then we have the locked down domain SSID. I have a few devices connected to the domain SSID and i find when connecting to the open SSIDs to do some testing, the device will not load the automatic landing page as it should. The only way to get it to load it to turn off the device - it's like the AP / ZD is hanging on to the connection. I may have to revert back to Version 9.13 to see if that has any affect on this issue. It has happened on a few laptops, my phone, my tech's phone and a range of other phones. Eventually the devices will connect but a restart speeds up the process.
timbo343 Posted June 30, 2017 Posted June 30, 2017 I may have found a bug in Version 10 or it's a problem with the R510 access points. We have 2 open SSIDs, one for staff and one for 6th form to connect to (long story - to do with smoothwall and ruckus not talking correctly) and then we have the locked down domain SSID. I have a few devices connected to the domain SSID and i find when connecting to the open SSIDs to do some testing, the device will not load the automatic landing page as it should. The only way to get it to load it to turn off the device - it's like the AP / ZD is hanging on to the connection. I may have to revert back to Version 9.13 to see if that has any affect on this issue. It has happened on a few laptops, my phone, my tech's phone and a range of other phones. Eventually the devices will connect but a restart speeds up the process. I've now rolled back to v9.13 and i can happily move from the domain SSID to the open BYOD SSIDs without having any issues - our custom login page that sixthform and staff see are now presented straight away.
FN-GM Posted August 11, 2017 Posted August 11, 2017 i have just upgraded. How do I manually fail-over between controllers please?
browsw Posted August 14, 2017 Posted August 14, 2017 i have just upgraded. How do I manually fail-over between controllers please? It's in Monitor > System Info @FN-GM. Took me a while to find it too! 1
seatrope Posted August 21, 2017 Posted August 21, 2017 Any chance one of you kind folk might be able to provide a copy of the zd1200 v10 firmware for download? Would like to trial it if at all possible. Thanks so much!
FN-GM Posted August 21, 2017 Posted August 21, 2017 Any chance one of you kind folk might be able to provide a copy of the zd1200 v10 firmware for download? Would like to trial it if at all possible. Thanks so much! If you contact Ruckus or your local support provider you have a contract with they will be able to provide the correct firmware. Thanks
soapyfish Posted August 21, 2017 Posted August 21, 2017 Version 9.12.3.0 build 61 is the last version to support the 7363, displayed as the zf7363 in the Zone Director. I wished Ruckus would support the older version hardware for longer too to be honest.
RobFrain Posted September 29, 2017 Posted September 29, 2017 Sorry to go to an old thread Got to admit We've been using V9.*** for the last few years and it just works. Upgraded to V10 and I really don't like it. Whats with the map on the first page? I did prefer the old home screen as i could see everything in one go..
localzuk Posted September 29, 2017 Author Posted September 29, 2017 Sorry to go to an old thread Got to admit We've been using V9.*** for the last few years and it just works. Upgraded to V10 and I really don't like it. Whats with the map on the first page? I did prefer the old home screen as i could see everything in one go.. The map is good for me, as I have sites all over the place, but it isn't very much use for someone with only a single site. 1
RobFrain Posted October 2, 2017 Posted October 2, 2017 The map is good for me, as I have sites all over the place, but it isn't very much use for someone with only a single site. like me! It would be good if they could put the heat map on there of all the AP's so you can see what's going on!
timbo343 Posted November 27, 2017 Posted November 27, 2017 I may have found a bug in Version 10 or it's a problem with the R510 access points. We have 2 open SSIDs, one for staff and one for 6th form to connect to (long story - to do with smoothwall and ruckus not talking correctly) and then we have the locked down domain SSID. I have a few devices connected to the domain SSID and i find when connecting to the open SSIDs to do some testing, the device will not load the automatic landing page as it should. The only way to get it to load it to turn off the device - it's like the AP / ZD is hanging on to the connection. I may have to revert back to Version 9.13 to see if that has any affect on this issue. It has happened on a few laptops, my phone, my tech's phone and a range of other phones. Eventually the devices will connect but a restart speeds up the process. Ruckus has fixed this issue that was preventing me from upgrading to Version 10. We are running 10.0.1.0 Build 35.
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