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Ubiquiti – How to test a cable

Sometimes a device will either not work or have reduced speeds when connected to the network. To rule out the cable, you can either swap it with a known working cable or test the cables from the switch back to the client directly from the Unifi switch itself. This is a short one, but one […]

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Ubiquiti Syslog Server

Ubiquiti’s Unifi line doesn’t really provide any logging and sometimes I need to see a little more to diagnose an issue. Here’s my setup for a quick an dirty Syslog server. Syslog Installation Syslog is available in the default Ubuntu repositories sudo apt install rsyslog Once installed, edit the conf file sudo nano /etc/rsyslog.conf Uncomment […]

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Ubiquiti Unifi Controller Setup

We had about 40 locations (now up to 90) that we had Unifi setup for our security network utilizing Ubiquiti’s Cloud Key for each site. The guy before me setup this up and it was a nightmare to manage. We also had a high number Cloud Keys kept dying on us. My solution to this […]

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ZoneMinder on Ubuntu

I’ve been using ZoneMinder for about 10 years at this point. Below I’ll outline my way (maybe easier than the official documentation) of installing ZoneMinder on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. I’ll be installing this a Lenovo M900 tiny pc and using 4 cheap PoE cameras off of Amazon LAMP Install and Setup Before we can install […]

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