Gaz

broadbandbuyer.co.uk are selling Unifi APs but with the option to have it managed via the cloud through them. Ubiquiti UniFi UAP-AC Simultaneous Dual-Band WiFi Access Point w/ 1-Year Hosted Cloud Controller Service (1750Mbps AC)

Gosh it'll be like being at work trying to manage that.

Great, its not in the GUI and its not in one of the inch thick guides I've already downloaded from HP. Time for a google.

Lets say I've got 5 vlans and I want 2 or 3 of them to do inter-vlan routing (so they are visible to each other) but I want the others to just have internet and not be visible to the other vlans. Is that possible at all? Its on a HP2920 stack. At the minute all of the vlans can communicate. IP routing is enabled.

I spoke to smoothwall support and he said that while, I can use the CA for the smoothwall interface it won't work for what I'm actually trying to achieve which conflicts with what support said yesterday.

OK I think I've(you've ) done it. I made a new primary zone and created the subdomain smooth.domain.co.uk and pointed it to the smoothwall IP 192.168.10.7 and I can ping it. Running nslookup on smooth.domain.co.uk brings back the correct IP. Does that sound right? So the next step is to make the CSR. I'll probably be back for more help on that.

Is it a primary or secondary zone I need to create? I would assume secondary as I already have a primary but looking at the add new zone wizard it appears it will let me create a new primary zone. Sorry for the daft questions I've never really messed with DNS before and I don't want to break anything.

How do I do that though? Do I need to create a new DNS Zone using the FQDN? The FQDN we have at the minute is just used for Google apps email. Have you created an A record on your server or webhost to point wifi.school.co.uk to 10.1.2.100?

Currently our Smoothwall hostname is smoothwall.local I have been told by support that it needs to be a FQDN for WPA enterprise to do SSL interception. How do I go about doing this? should I create a CNAME on the domain something like, smoothwall.domain.co.uk how do I point that to the LAN though? port forwarding? Like wise do I create a local DNS entry for smoothwall.domain.co.uk and point it to our webhost? Do I need to change our whole local domain or can I just change the smoothwall domain address? I'm a little lost as this isn't something I've done before.

Very doable either contact Ruckus direct and they will put you in contact with a local supplier or contact one of the suppliers on here with what you want and they will send you some APs and a controller for you to try out.

Did you resolve the issue? I was looking a getting a few of these laptops.

I can't give you much, but I am currently trialling Meraki after trialling Ruckus and being impressed with it. They are both good and both offer equal advantages and disadvantages. I'm impressed with the cloud based system of the Meraki as I work from multiple sites, having a single pane of glass to manage the WiFi is great and the GUI is super user friendly. The issue with Meraki could be the long term costs as you have to pay per AP per year (3 or 5 year licences are available) If you use the Meraki MDM then its built right into their cloud controller and probably an easier way to do it. They also have an enterprise version of that now. What make switches do you use? Their help terminology is geared towards Cisco terminology.

Arh OK, We don't use those (yet) just the stacking modules. Thanks.

HP 2920

OK those are the SFP ports arent they? and I'm losing the plot!

What do the Letters/numbers mean for this untagged vlan? 1/A1 B1-1 etc etc I've googled but didn't know exactly what I was googling. vlan 1 name "DEFAULT_VLAN" no untagged 1/1-1/48,2/1-2/24 untagged 1/A1-1/A2,1/B1-1/B2,2/A1-2/A2,2/B1-2/B2 ip address 192.168.1.254 255.255.255.0 exit

You need to use filters/expressions to to drill down the results to find what you are looking for just google them there are loads out there. Is there a software element to this device? Maybe your software firewall can display the active connections the software is making.

Thank you everyone for your input, I must say it was funny to see this thread turn into people being very defensive about their own RAID choices. I went with RAID10 with a spare that will kick in when it detects a predicted failure. The only disadvantage to RAID10 over RAID 5 is the cost, they have the exact same drive failure protection in that they can only suffer 1 drive failure. Thanks again guys.

I Guess it may seem like a waste as our current servers only use about 80GB for the OS/Software, however It could be argued a RAID5 array of 5 disks is also a waste at 2.4TB as most of that will never be used. Then there is the long rebuild times on an array with that many disks and slower performance all round, remember an array is most vulnerable during the rebuild process. RAID6 needs a minimum of 4 disks. Adaptec - Which RAID Level is Right for Me? RAID6 is slower than RAID5 for reads and probably even worse in a degraded state, but the trade of is the redundancy. There is no best solution, thats the conclusion I've come to. If it all goes to pot then I'll just have to flatten and restore from backups.

@Bobby_Tables I was sorta Joking about RAID10, its still a consideration, with the amount of disks I've got the I could RAID10 with a hotspare, but my other choice is my original idea of 2 arrays, RAID1 and RAID5, this would have 1 disk failure per array and also separate each of the arrays should one catastrophically fail, so I'd either lose the OS or the DATA but not both (hopefully) I could then buy another HDD down the line for a hotspare. I'm not even sure if the controller supports multiple arrays yet.

The server will be used for a small amount of users and they won't be storing masses of data, just their work which will be mostly word documents currently one site the students and teachers home folders combined is only 150GB. This is why I had the idea of 2 arrays, a RAID1 for the server OS and roles which would provide the necessary IOPS and also redundancy, the RAID5 would be suitable for storing users data which wont require high IOPS. RAID10 with hotspare would afford some protection with speed but googing I came across this. Which then puts me off RAID10 MPECS Inc. Blog: HP P420i Smart Array: Adding 4 New Disks to a RAID 10 Array Naturally everything will be backed up to a NAS drive. I'm coming to the conclusion that no combination will be perfect for our needs and we will just need to get by with whatever I finally decide. All methods of raid provide some form of protection and if a drive fails it shall be replaced next day and then restored from backups. Haha as I type this I just checked one of our servers thats running a RAID1 array and its got a failure predicted. xD Better get that changed pronto!

We have been running a server with a RAID5 array (x4 450GB SAS drives) for ~6 years 24/7 (not including reboots) with only 1 disk being replaced in that time due to predicted failure and the rebuild didn't take too long. So I'm pretty happy with it. It does seem that RAID type is almost a personal preference over there actually being a best practice going off some of these posts.

Hehe, RAID10 was something I dismissed because its impossible with 5 drives, but you are right I could do it with 4 drives plus a hot spare! 1.2TB will be plenty of space I'm sure. That would give me good speeds in both reading and writing plus data protection. The Drives are HP drives with no tell tale signs of manufacturer.

There are no drives in place this is a new server build that contains x5 600GB SAS drives. So If I don't have enough drives for a RAID1 and RAID6 array which seems to be the recommendation so far, would it be better to just stick them all in a RAID6 array?

Unfortunately I've got 5 drives so RAID1 and RAID6 isn't possible without having 6 drives and my budget wont go that far. I'm just trying to make the best of a bad situation, the server was meant to have an SSD but it wont arrive in good time so I have changed it to, 2 more SAS drives and RAM instead.