Ubiquiti EdgeSwitch Unboxing and Setup

everybody welcome to crosstalk solutions my name is Chris and today we're going to be unboxing and doing some very simple configuration setup of the ubiquity edge switch so here it is right here oh it's a heavy sucker okay so this is the this is sort of the bottom of the line edge switch it's going to work great for what I'm using it for which is for a customer who's putting in a ubiquity UVC camera system in addition to a couple of access points and they're going to be utilizing two of these one upstairs and one downstairs so the edge switch comes in a few flavors this is the edge switch 24 port version with a 250 watt power availability or power consumption they also make this same edge switch for 24 ports in a 500 watt power consumption variety now the difference is how much p OE are you going to use and how many volts are your POV devices pulling off of the of the p OE switch so in this case it's a 24-port switch but I'm really only going to be using about you know eight or so of the ports for p OE so the 250 watt version is perfect for my purpose they also make a 48 and edge switch 48 and it's the same sort of concept it comes in a 500 watt variety and a 750 watt variety and that just has to do with how many of the ports are actually going to be pushing p OE to p OE devices okay so let's get this thing opened up it is a little bit heavy so this is awkward but we will try it anyways so very simple let me pull this down okay so in the box we've got Quick Start Guide power cable and switch not much more to it oh and looks like there's some mounting brackets as well my only gripe with this switch is that the front plate is one solid piece of metal so it only gives you the option to mount this you know into a 19-inch rack this is connected um you know there are other switches on the market where you sort of get the arms that connect to the 19-inch rack separate and then you can either put them you know this way out so that they'll go on the 19 track you can put them down so that you could bolt it into something or you know even up so you can bolt it on the underside of something so whenever I get these and a customer doesn't have a 19-inch rack I have to purchase a separate like vertical wall mount kit for this which they make in their about 35 40 bucks it's not too big a deal but yeah just if you BIC wa t if you're watching this please come out with version that doesn't have this front panel hard fixed to the to the device okay so what do we have on the edge which we've got a couple of 10 gigabit SFP ports and then we've got 24 one gigabit standard copper ethernet ports all of these ports are auto sensing they auto sense 802 3 AF and 80 power of 4 Ethernet so it's really nice you don't have to configure them if you're using in 802 3 AF or 80 device you just plug it in and it powers up that's it now if you're using something that has passive p OE you can actually manually configure each port individually for 24 volt passive p OE but that's just you just have to remember which port you configure it for the passive p OE and plug that specific device into that specific port okay so not much to it let's go ahead and plug it in and get it turned on and working okay so I have the X which plugged in it takes about a minute or so to boot up and then you get your link lights I've got my computer plugged directly into the ED switch and I've got the N switch cross connected to an edge router that then of course has internet access through the LAN port so the edge switch by default gets a DHCP IP address on the network so the first thing we need to do is figure out which IP address was given out to the edge switch and then I'm going to manually set the IP address statically so that I know where this edge switch is on the network from here on out so to do that I'm going to open up the interface of the edge router and I'm going to view my DHCP leases to find the edge switch okay so I meant the edge router the light and I go to services and I want to click on my DHCP pool for the land where the edge which is connected and I'm going to click view leases and what I see here are two lease is given out hostname crosstalk is my computer here and then the one without a hostname is going to be the edge switch so I see it's at 192 168 1 dot 101 okay so here's the initial login page we're going to go you BNT and you BNT and agree to the terms login okay so here's the dashboard we could see temperature CPU utilization memory usage software version and let's go online and check to see if there is a newer firmware out and available for the edge switch so go to UB NT comm products routing and switching edge switch and then if you scroll all the way to the bottom you should see latest software and we can see that the latest software available is looks like version 1.1 dot 2 and we are running version 10.1 so we definitely want to upgrade to the latest firmware let's go ahead and download that and then to update the firmware we want to come to system and firmware and then status let's take a look at status first no and that's just going to show us the active firmware is version 1.01 across the board so now let's go to configuration and upgrade so we're going to click upgrade firmware choose file I picked the firmware that I downloaded and now we're going to begin transfer okay so it looks like the transfer is complete that actually took a while so if your transfer completed is is going for a little bit don't worry about it too much that took about Oh close to five minutes to transfer that firmware onto the edge switch so we're going to close and now we can see that there are two different firmwares so what we want to do is set the new one that we just uploaded as the next active firmware and we're going to hit submit okay so after that has been submitted we want to come and do a system reset so we're going to say system pull it down to utilities and do restart switch and click reset so while this is resetting the little LED on the front panel it's very tough to see from that angle but it's right here next to the ubiquity logo is blue and then once it's done resetting that actually turns to white so kind of an excellent indicator you can see when it is done doing what it needs to do okay so light turn white let's log back into the switch okay so now we can see software version is 1.1.2 so we have successfully upgraded our firmware now I want to do one other thing before I kind of go through the interface and show you some of the various settings and that is I would like to change the password for the administrative user and I would also like to statically set the IP address so that it's something that that we know and it's no longer DHCP so I guess that's two things that's not one thing so let's start with the users so we pull down system and we go to users and let's look at accounts and we can see right now there is one user it's the ub NT user it's the default user so let's click on that user and click Edit and we're going to give it a new password okay read/write access and we're going to go ahead and submit that change and we want to save the configuration now so we could click save configuration in the upper right hand corner save okay lots of saved confirmations okay here we go okay so that's been done and this says saving all applied changes will cause all changes to configuration panels that were applied but not saved to be saved and non-volatile storage thus retaining their new values across the system restart okay so that's what we did so this works very similar to like Cisco switches where basically you've got a write a cisco routers where you've got a running config and a saved config so you can basically make all the changes that you want to make hit save configuration once and apply those changes so that they will stick the next time the device reboots okay so now let's go change the IP address I want to go to system connectivity and under ipv4 we want to change the network configuration protocol first so right now you see it's set to DHCP we want to set it to none and now I'm going to give it an IP address of 192 168 1 2 and I'm going to leave all of the rest of this the same and we're going to go ahead and submit that change now this will require a reboot I believe it's certainly going to require me to go through that save configuration stuff again ok so we are now back in the system IP address has been changed to 180 168 1.2 set statically so let's take a quick look through some of the settings now when I'm sitting these up I'm typically setting these up for customers in a an SMB environment so I vary rarely take advantage of a lot of the features as specifically the l3 features that this switch offers but it is nice to know that those features are there so let's just take a quick look through p OE this is where you can set a p OE on a per port basis so for instance right now you can see that all of these ports are set to p OE plus auto but if i actually edit one of the ports I can change the p OE mode to 24 volt passive and that will work for some other types of devices that don't do the 803 802 dot 3 AF and 80 auto-sensing stuff if we go to system we've got a ton of information here so we've got AAA that's your Triple A authentication under advanced configuration this could be a DHCP server DNS server let's take a look at DNS options so not a let's see domain list yeah it looks like this is a full DNS server let's see let's see what happens if you add something domain name yeah I'm not sure if this is a full DNS server or if it's just for passing out DNS server information I've never used DNS in this device so ok well moving on like said this is a little bit beyond the scope of this video I just wanted to kind of give a quick tour through some of the features here so basic configuration let's see configuration storage so connectivity is where you set your ipv4 ipv6 stuff firmware is where you update logs management access this probably gives you the ability to set how you can access so HTTP admin is enabled telnet is enabled HTTPS secure HTTP is disabled so it means you can like so for instance you could turn off HTTP and require HTTPS to access and looks like SSH is actually disabled by default so you'd have to enable SSH if you want to connect with an SSH client oh it even brings it down to SSH one and two you've got RSA and DSA keys that you can set up to connect to this thing very cool passwords so there's the enable password password rules lost path last password reset passwords let's take a look at our ports so here's where we have all of our ports we can see the status and how they're set up let's actually look at an individual port so Auto negotiate STP yeah so here's all your port settings port descriptions you can add cable test interesting and then of course look your support port mirroring multiple port mirroring so it looks like you can set up some some standard port mirroring in here as well let's see summary dashboard users here's your utilities traceroute ping restart switch and let's look over here look at switching classes service DHCP snooping filters GARP IGMP stuff multicast lldp Wow and there's just so much you can do with this spanning tree port security protected ports here's your VLANs let's take a look at the VLANs there's a VLAN wizard tagged untagged so we can see that all of the ports are currently untagged in the default VLAN which is VLAN 1 so it looks like we can add any VLAN in the range of two to four thousand 93 and then we can tag or untag specific ports for each VLAN some pretty pretty standard VLAN stuff okay private VLAN is another hole setting and then also voice VLAN so what does voice VLAN do voice VLAN admin mode interface summary I wonder if voice VLAN I have to look this up but my guess this is just a guess folks but my guess would be that the voice VLAN configuration may be automatically sets some level of QoS for sip when phones are plugged into the into the voice VLAN all right so routing we've done ARP table IP and we've got router stuff so here's your wrap table configured routes etc so this is all your layer 3 stuff security port access control radius authentication and TAC ACS configuration yeah this is all stuff it boy I've never really even worked with I've done radius work but this this switch is very powerful I mean you take a switch like this and it's $393 for this version now you compare that to like sort of the de facto standard p OE switches out there which is like the HP procurve series and those are over $1,000 a switch for basically the same stuff so I don't know if you guys have a good argument to spend the extra money on an HP Pro curve versus this edge switch please put it in the comments below I'd be very curious to hear your thoughts on that in the meantime though this has been a very basic overview and setup of an edge switch that I'm really using a incredibly small percentage of the features for the customer that I'm setting this up for but it works well it's very cost effective and you can't beat the the auto-sensing power over ethernet so my name is Chris with crosstalk solutions if you like this video please give me a thumbs up and if you'd like to see more videos like this please click Subscribe thanks for watching

Channel: Crosstalk Solutions

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Keywords: edgeswitch, ubiquiti, Ubiquiti Networks (Consumer Company), ubiquiti edgeswitch, es-24-250w, es-24-500w, es-48-50w, es-48-750w, Computer Network (Industry)

Id: m_HSjK60Pfc

Length: 19min 47sec (1187 seconds)

Published: Wed Aug 12 2015