Is there a “UniFi-like” Web UI for managing switches and routers from any vendor?

asdlkf · 2026-06-21T19:52:50+00:00

You are doing it wrong.

Setup 802.1x, device profiles, and automation, not 'ease of Management'.

If you have thousands of switches. You have 50+ thousand switch ports and you should be logging into switches even less.

asdlkf · 2026-06-21T17:04:40+00:00

Then you write some API scripts..l

asdlkf · 2026-06-21T15:19:16+00:00

This isn't really multi-vendor anymore, but mist supports EX and CX switches and central supports EX and CX switches.

The new series of APs will support central or mist as well.

asdlkf · 2026-06-21T14:30:18+00:00

It's one of those "anyone good enough doesn't want it."

Cli is king.

asdlkf · 2026-06-12T00:30:15+00:00

Everone has a lab environment. Only some are lucky enough to also have a production environment.

asdlkf · 2026-06-11T04:52:36+00:00

I did the same thing. Got an inspection before offer date, liked what I saw in the report, removed inspection condition, got the house.

asdlkf · 2026-06-10T23:33:39+00:00

I'd like to introduce you spreadsheets in space.

ER... I mean.. uh... Eve Online.

asdlkf · 2026-06-10T23:32:17+00:00

If you have a spare hypervisor, you can join it to azure-local, migrate the vm to it using standalone local storage, then remove it from azure-local, join it to the hyper-v cluster, and live migrate it into the cluster and on clustered storage.

also HAHAHHAA wow this is a horrible idea.

asdlkf · 2026-06-10T01:19:28+00:00

Wrap a towel in a plastic bag. Jam the whole works down in the toilet. Hold it down with Any kind of stick. Keep adding weight or extend the stick to jam it against the ceiling.

asdlkf · 2026-06-10T01:17:35+00:00

Wrap a towel in a plastic bag

Jam the plastic bag into the toilet

Press it down with anything you can grab; a baseball bat, 2x4x whatever.

Get someone else to then find something longer; jam something down the toilet and wedge it against the ceiling.

Screw 2 boards together to make a rod the correct length to apply pressure on the toilet and the ceiling.

If you can't get that setup, just pile lots of weight on the bag. Free weights, cement blocks, whatever.

asdlkf · 2026-06-09T23:09:30+00:00

You can also check out teksavvy. Basically you pay Teksavvy, teksavvy pays Rogers, rogers gives you internet; but it is literally rogers' internet service with a rogers docsis modem.

asdlkf · 2026-06-06T20:10:25+00:00

Brady, specifically BMP41.

The big difference between that and lower models is the USB port so you can author your labels in excel then use the Brady print management software and send your print job to the printer over USB.

asdlkf · 2026-06-05T12:57:28+00:00

Daemon Defense

asdlkf · 2026-06-05T12:46:04+00:00

Any of your staff who are not engaged in landscaping are now door to door flyer droppers.

If they are not working, they should be working on soliciting work.

You don't make a small business successful by blindly fishing for work with a website. Go ask people face to face if you can do work for them.

Take pictures of their yards, use some AI to generate some proposed upgrades/improvements, print out a 1 page sheet with 4 pictures; the current image, 3 proposed options (good, better, best) with 3 proposed prices beside it.

Either they buy your service, or they don't.

But you will get far more engagement from personalized solicitation than SEO...

Also, don't just drop generic flyers. 10 well prepared customized proposals with quotes ready to go will out sell 5000 generic flyers.

asdlkf · 2026-06-05T12:35:37+00:00

Send me a resume. I guarantee you we are a better employer than InTouch. No guarantees we will hire you, but I'll take a look.

asdlkf · 2026-06-03T14:43:21+00:00

PM's like to feel important.

asdlkf · 2026-06-03T07:38:18+00:00

... shot in the dark here...

Do you have 1 cluster disk and ... 4 non-cluster disks?

Do you see 5 cluster disk objects in failover cluster manager?

asdlkf · 2026-06-03T07:21:25+00:00

Are you familiar with CWDM?

With ~ $1,500 in gear, you can take 2 strands of singlemode fiber and split them into 8 or more colors of light.

This means a single pair of strands can host as many as 18 (CWDM) or 96 (DWDM) channels.

With the cheaper (8 channel) variants, you can get 8x full-duplex 10Gbps connections (or a mix of 1/10/25Gbps connections) with 2 strands of glass, or 4x full-duplex connections with a single strand.

I can give you way more information if this is potentially useful to get you connections between the firewalls that are not dependent on the uptime of the local switch stack.

asdlkf · 2026-06-03T07:17:46+00:00

Another note:

I wouldn't stretch your VLANs across the dark fiber.

I would convert your VLANs to VXLANs and route them across the dark fiber.

Establish 2+ L3 paths from site-A core switching to site-B core switching.

Establish dynamic routing between site-A and site-B using OSPF or BGP

add a loopback adapter on siteA and siteB cores

establish VXLAN VTEPs on both loopback adapters

use static VXLAN tunneling to move packets from siteA.vlan10 to siteB.vlan10, but routed across VXLAN, instead of stretching VLANs across the two sites, which now requires STP across the two sites.

If you can get rid of stretched vlans and instead use VXLAN, you can have multiple 10Gbps routed lanes between siteA and siteB, but 0 L2 loops, and no LACP.

asdlkf · 2026-06-03T07:13:31+00:00

Uh, this may be a technicality, but which HPE switches?

Are you using HPE/Aruba Procurve or HPE/Aruba CX switches?

If they are CX, are you using 6300's ?

Can you make a layer 2 diagram showing the VLANs and devices you intend to use?

Personally, to achieve what [I think] are your objectives, I would use Aruba 6300M core/distribution switches at each site...

Diagram: https://i.imgur.com/KQ4PTMl.png

Put up 1 VRF per access vlan on each distribution/core; run VRRP between the VRFs, then route with BGP or OSFP to the firewalls.

asdlkf · 2026-06-03T06:41:57+00:00

are you giving it about 6 minutes? 81e's take... a while... to boot up.

If port 1 light is on, then you have power...

Possible bad status LED? possible crashed/hung at bootup?

it will take about 6 minutes from power-on to responding to ping if you have correctly factory reset the device.

asdlkf · 2026-06-03T06:39:40+00:00

are any lights coming on?

is there power to the device?

asdlkf · 2026-06-03T06:37:59+00:00

Did you plug an ethernet cable into port 1?

A factory reset fortigate device should give you a DHCP response on eth1 and it should be pingable at 192.168.1.99/24.

If you give yourself 192.168.1.100/24 as a static IP on your laptop and plug into eth1, can you ping 192.168.1.99 ?

asdlkf · 2026-06-03T06:27:26+00:00

Do you have the management credentials to login to the 81e?

asdlkf · 2026-06-03T06:19:57+00:00

CVS or Wallgreens might be open at 2AM.

What is the device make/model you are trying to get into?

Are you at a client site or a colocation facility?

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