Category: Ubiquiti

Feb 08

Add MIB Files to Ubuntu

Adding MIB files to Ubuntu Manually

This tutorial will cover manually adding MIB, Management Information Base, files to Ubuntu. Specifically, Dell and Ubiquiti MIBs.

You can acquire the Ubiquiti MIBs here:
Ubiquiti MIBs
Ubiquiti UniFi MIBs

Dell Switch MIBs are included within the firmware when you download it from Dell. This process should work for adding just about any MIB to Ubuntu. You can see my post titled “Dell PowerConnect 5524P Firmware Upgrade” to learn how to obtain the Dell firmware.

You will need WinSCP and Putty fohttps://achubbard.com/2018/01/29/dell-powerconnect-5524p-firmware-upgrade/r this tutorial.

Launch WinSCP and navigate to the home directory for the user you logged in as. Within the home directory, right click and create a new folder. I called mine “mibs” to keep things simple. Copy all of your mib files from your computer to this location.

 

Now that the mibs files are located on your Ubuntu server, we need to get them into the correct directory. For this we will use Putty. Open up Putty and connect to your Ubuntu server.

Type the command “sudo cp /home/username/mibs/*.mibs /usr/share/snmp/mibs/”

Where username is, put your account username. So in my case, my command would look like this: sudo cp /home/altach/mibs/*.mibs /usr/share/snmp/mibs/

This will copy all of the files with the .mib file extension to the /usr/share/snmp/mibs/ folder.

 

WGET to manually add MIB files to Ubuntu

Another way to get MIB files on your Ubuntu server is to use the wget command. We will use the Ubiquiti MIBs for this example.

Open Putty and connect to your Ubuntu server. Create and/or navigate to the “tmp” folder. Navigate to it by issuing the command “cd /tmp”

This is where you can now download your Ubiquiti MIB files to.

Type: “sudo wget http://dl.ubnt-ut.com/snmp/UBNT-MIB” and the Ubiquiti MIB file will then be downloaded to your /tmp folder. You can use any folder you wish, I just happend to use a /tmp folder. Issue the command again using the path for the UniFi MIBs if needed.

When the MIBs have been downloaded, you can now copy them to the /usr/share/snmp/mibs/ folder by issuing the command “sudo cp UBNT-* /usr/share/snmp/mibs/

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Jan 30

Feeding Ubiquiti Cameras into Blue Iris

Background

When it comes to security cameras, I have pretty much been an advocate for anything Ubiquiti. Especially when there is a budget to work with. Their cameras are fairly good quality for a decent price. Ubiquiti also includes their NVR software free of charge. I, personally, have had great success with the above mentioned software. Some hiccups here and there, but nothing major to write home about. That being said, lately I have had the desire…the want… for something more out of my home camera/NVR system that Ubiquiti does not offer at this time. A great addition to my system would be a couple of PTZs.

For those of you who do not know what a PTZ camera is, it stands for, Pan, Tilt and Zoom. This allows the user to move the camera about instead of having it in a fixed position.

In order to pull this off and add some PTZs to my network of cameras, I had to come up with a different NVR solution. This is where Blue Iris comes into play. I knew I could not replace all of my Ubiquiti cameras and really had no need to. However, I needed a solution that would play nice with them. Something else Ubiquiti is not exactly known for.

I purchased a copy of Blue Iris for $60 and installed it on my home server.

Purchase BlueIris here

Steps to take

I then began to remove my Ubiquiti cameras from the Ubiquiti NVR software by using the “unmange” option. Once all of the cameras were out of the Ubiquiti NVR, I then logged into each camera and set them to “Standalone” mode. This allows them to send an RTSP feed. Blue Iris can then receive the RTSP feed. 

Once you have put the camera into “Standalone” mode, it will reboot.

You can now launch Blue Iris and add the camera to it. You will need your RTSP URL and port number. In this case, it is 192.168.35.101:554

Within the Blue Iris Admin Console, right click anywhere and select “Add new camera” from the popup menu.

A dialogue box will appear. Give your new camera a Full Name and a Short Name.

Under “Type” make sure it is set to “Network IP”

On the “Options” section, I chose to enable all 3. These are optional, you may pick whatever options fit your situation.

When you are satisfied with the settings, click on the “Ok” button. A new dialogue box will appear. Here you will want to leave the first drop down as “http://” and then enter the IP and port number of the camera. So in my case, 192.168.35.101:554. The “Make” will be “Generic” and the model will be “RTSP H.264/H.265/MJPG/MPEG4. Under the “Video” section, set “Path” as “/s0”, Audio Format can be set to “64kbps G.711 u-law”

I left the additional settings alone. Something I am trying to get working in the future is to require a username/password for the RTSP feed. Currently I have left those blank. From my research, Ubiquiti does not seem to support that as an option with Blue Iris at this time. I am ok with this as my cameras are on a separate VLAN on my home network.

Go ahead and click “Ok” – You should now be able to see your Ubiquiti camera within Blue Iris.

 

Now that I have my Ubiquiti cameras working within Blue Iris, I can go ahead and any other type of camera to my system, this includes PTZs.

 


 

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Jan 30

Unifi and NanoStation VLAN Configuration

Unifi and NanoStation VLAN Configuration

Background

This is a tutorial on how to configure a VLAN on a Ubiquiti Unifi Controller and switch. We will also go over how to use the second ethernet port on a Ubiquti NanoStation on a different VLAN for use with a Ubiquiti Security Camera.

I have a rather long driveway, our upper half of the driveway is where my office and house are located. The lower half houses an area for our growing animal population and parking. I have multiple VLANs, 1 of which is for my security cameras. I wanted the 2nd port on the Ubiquiti NanoStation placed on the lower portion of the driveway to be able to utilize my camera VLAN.

This tutorial will assume that all of the hardware is in place and you are ready to make the secondary ethernet port on the NanoStation work on another VLAN.

In my case, I have a Unifi Controller that will need to be configured with my security VLAN, VLAN35, prior to configuring my NanoStations.

Unfi Configuration

Enter the Unifi controller and navigate to Settings >Networks. 

Click on the “Create New Network” button. Select “VLAN Only” from the “Purpose” section. Give your VLAN a name and a number. I chose 35.

You can then configure any other settings for your new VLAN that you may need. In my case, I only needed the basics. No DHCP on my security VLAN. You can then click on the “Save” button.

Once saved, in the Unifi controller, navigate to “Devices”

Select your switch and it will open the device’s configurations on the right hand side of the page. Select your port from the list and click “Edit”

On my “Core” (I use quotations because it is not really a core switch, but it is my main switch) I picked port 2 to use for my NanoStation uplink.

You want to make sure the “Switch Port Profile” is set to “All” – The reason is that this port is going to act as a trunk port and provide all of the VLANs to your first NanoStation. You want this if you wish to pass all of your VLANs over the bridge. Click “Apply”

NanoStation Station 1 Configuration

Next, login to the web interface of your NanoStation that will be acting as the “Station” – Navigate to the “Wireless” tab. Here you want to configure your wireless bridge settings (IE: your SSID, WPA2 Key, Channel Width etc) – I will leave that up to you to determine what works for your application. Since this NanoStation is acting as the “Station” you want to make sure the “Wireless Mode” is set to “Station”

Below is what I chose for my settings:

Once the wireless portion of your first station is configured, go to the “Network” tab. Here you can configure your station with a static IP etc. For the purposes of this tutorial, we will assume you have already given your station a static IP address, gateway, mask, DNS and so forth. You will want to make sure that the “Network Mode” is set to “Bridge” and that the “Configuration Mode” is set to “Simple”

NanoStation Station 2 Configuration

After completing the setup of your first NanoStation, login to the web interface of the second NanoStation. First go to the “Wireless” tab on your second NanoStation. This time you will want “Wireless Mode” to be set as “Access Point” – You will then match the rest of the settings to the settings you configured on the “Wireless” tab on your first NanoStation.

Once you have selected your settings, navigate to the “Network” tab on your second NanoStation. This is where things get to be a little be more complex. Since the wireless bridge itself is passing all of the VLANs across it, we need to tell the NanoStation what VLAN to use for the 2nd onboard ethernet port. This is the port we will be daisy chaining our camera off of.

VLAN and Bridge Configuration

On station number 2, your “Network Mode” will also be set to “Bridge”, you will have the option to set a static IP, mask, gateway and so forth. The real difference here is that the “Configuration Mode” MUST be set to “Advanced” this will open up a slew of different options for you.

When “Advanced” is selected, you will now see a bunch of options at the bottom of the page. For this example, the LAN0 port is feeding a switch, the LAN1 port is what the camera will be daisy chained off of and WLAN0 is the wireless bridge between the two NanoStations.

Under the VLAN Network section, we first must add VLAN35 to each interface. This will allow the NanoStation to pass VLAN 35 over the wireless bridge and the 2 ethernet ports.

After adding the VLAN to the interfaces, come on down to the “Bridge Network” section. If memory serves me correctly, you must break the existing bridge to configure a new bridge.

BRIDGE0 is allowing LAN0 and WLAN0 to communicate thus passing management traffic to the switch connected to that ethernet port.

BRIDGE1 is allowing LAN1 and WLAN0.35 to communicate thus allowing camera traffic to pass from LAN1 to the wireless bridge, and back to the NVR.

After configuring the bridges, you must go up to the “Management Network Settings” section. Select “Management Interface”, in my case, it is “BRIDGE0” or my “management” VLAN.

The final step before you can plug the camera in, is to enable POE Passthrough. This allows the NanoStation to power the camera via POE on the secondary LAN port. On your second NanoStation, navigate to the “Advanced” tab. Scroll down until you find “Advanced Ethernet Settings”. Check the checkbox labeled “POE Passthrough enabled”. Click the change button and you should now be able to power up your camera on a separate VLAN.

 

Hope this helps someone, I spent a lot of time trying to get this to work on my property.

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