Migrating site from UNMS CK to UNMS
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@DustinB3403 said in Migrating site from UNMS CK to UNMS:
@JaredBusch said in Migrating site from UNMS CK to UNMS:
The question really is, can you migrate entire sites from Cloud Keys (or other UNMS portals) to different UNMS portals.
IE if a customer was changing MSP's and wanted their new MSP to manage their Ubiquiti environment how would you move everything in one go?
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@DustinB3403 said in Migrating site from UNMS CK to UNMS:
@JaredBusch said in Migrating site from UNMS CK to UNMS:
@DustinB3403 said in Migrating site from UNMS CK to UNMS:
UNMS Cloud Key
WTF is a UNMS Cloud Key?
Ubiquiti cloud key creates a unms type portal that actually uses unms creds to login.
The UniFi Cloud Key from Ubiquiti is for UniFi hardware only. It does nothing for EdgeMax hardware.
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Unifi and Edge gear (managed by UNMS) have different migration mechanisms. Unifi is always host yourself, and has a Cloud Key (aka non-cloud / non-hosted) option; UNMS has a hosted cloud option from Ubiquiti.
Unifi gear has a simple import/export option on a site by site basis.
UNMS does not (last I checked), you have to move equipment on a device by device basis. But UNMS is easier to do that with.
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@scottalanmiller said in Migrating site from UNMS CK to UNMS:
Unifi gear has a simple import/export option on a site by site basis.
And if you do that process under control with all things online, it tells the devices how to find the new UniFi controller as part of it.
It is a very good process.
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@JaredBusch said in Migrating site from UNMS CK to UNMS:
@scottalanmiller said in Migrating site from UNMS CK to UNMS:
Unifi gear has a simple import/export option on a site by site basis.
And if you do that process under control with all things online, it tells the devices how to find the new UniFi controller as part of it.
It is a very good process.
can you expand upon that?
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@Dashrender said in Migrating site from UNMS CK to UNMS:
@JaredBusch said in Migrating site from UNMS CK to UNMS:
@scottalanmiller said in Migrating site from UNMS CK to UNMS:
Unifi gear has a simple import/export option on a site by site basis.
And if you do that process under control with all things online, it tells the devices how to find the new UniFi controller as part of it.
It is a very good process.
can you expand upon that?
In Unifi you can export your site, and import it into other unifi controllers.
What I don't know is if you can export your unifi site from an on-prem controller into a UNMS environment.
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@DustinB3403 said in Migrating site from UNMS CK to UNMS:
@Dashrender said in Migrating site from UNMS CK to UNMS:
@JaredBusch said in Migrating site from UNMS CK to UNMS:
@scottalanmiller said in Migrating site from UNMS CK to UNMS:
Unifi gear has a simple import/export option on a site by site basis.
And if you do that process under control with all things online, it tells the devices how to find the new UniFi controller as part of it.
It is a very good process.
can you expand upon that?
In Unifi you can export your site, and import it into other unifi controllers.
What I don't know is if you can export your unifi site from an on-prem controller into a UNMS environment.
UniFi and UNMS are different things. You can't import a sites between the two. What you can do is move UniFi site to another UniFi controller.
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@DustinB3403 said in Migrating site from UNMS CK to UNMS:
@Dashrender said in Migrating site from UNMS CK to UNMS:
@JaredBusch said in Migrating site from UNMS CK to UNMS:
@scottalanmiller said in Migrating site from UNMS CK to UNMS:
Unifi gear has a simple import/export option on a site by site basis.
And if you do that process under control with all things online, it tells the devices how to find the new UniFi controller as part of it.
It is a very good process.
can you expand upon that?
In Unifi you can export your site, and import it into other unifi controllers.
What I don't know is if you can export your unifi site from an on-prem controller into a UNMS environment.
You cannot.
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@Dashrender said in Migrating site from UNMS CK to UNMS:
@JaredBusch said in Migrating site from UNMS CK to UNMS:
@scottalanmiller said in Migrating site from UNMS CK to UNMS:
Unifi gear has a simple import/export option on a site by site basis.
And if you do that process under control with all things online, it tells the devices how to find the new UniFi controller as part of it.
It is a very good process.
can you expand upon that?
There is a migration step you can do beyond simply backup and restore.
It updates the devices, telling them how to find the new controller.
Obviously, if you are backing up and restoring to the same IP/FQDN you don’t need to worry about it.
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@JaredBusch said in Migrating site from UNMS CK to UNMS:
@Dashrender said in Migrating site from UNMS CK to UNMS:
@JaredBusch said in Migrating site from UNMS CK to UNMS:
@scottalanmiller said in Migrating site from UNMS CK to UNMS:
Unifi gear has a simple import/export option on a site by site basis.
And if you do that process under control with all things online, it tells the devices how to find the new UniFi controller as part of it.
It is a very good process.
can you expand upon that?
There is a migration step you can do beyond simply backup and restore.
It updates the devices, telling them how to find the new controller.
Obviously, if you are backing up and restoring to the same IP/FQDN you don’t need to worry about it.
I'm looking at my own situation - local Unifi controller, looking to move out of my network. I have local DNS server pointing the way.. which I assume I would just point at the new IP.
What is this other step you're talking about yet not actually typing?
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@Dashrender said in Migrating site from UNMS CK to UNMS:
@JaredBusch said in Migrating site from UNMS CK to UNMS:
@Dashrender said in Migrating site from UNMS CK to UNMS:
@JaredBusch said in Migrating site from UNMS CK to UNMS:
@scottalanmiller said in Migrating site from UNMS CK to UNMS:
Unifi gear has a simple import/export option on a site by site basis.
And if you do that process under control with all things online, it tells the devices how to find the new UniFi controller as part of it.
It is a very good process.
can you expand upon that?
There is a migration step you can do beyond simply backup and restore.
It updates the devices, telling them how to find the new controller.
Obviously, if you are backing up and restoring to the same IP/FQDN you don’t need to worry about it.
I'm looking at my own situation - local Unifi controller, looking to move out of my network. I have local DNS server pointing the way.. which I assume I would just point at the new IP.
What is this other step you're talking about yet not actually typing?
It is in the controller I said that..
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@JaredBusch said in Migrating site from UNMS CK to UNMS:
@Dashrender said in Migrating site from UNMS CK to UNMS:
@JaredBusch said in Migrating site from UNMS CK to UNMS:
@Dashrender said in Migrating site from UNMS CK to UNMS:
@JaredBusch said in Migrating site from UNMS CK to UNMS:
@scottalanmiller said in Migrating site from UNMS CK to UNMS:
Unifi gear has a simple import/export option on a site by site basis.
And if you do that process under control with all things online, it tells the devices how to find the new UniFi controller as part of it.
It is a very good process.
can you expand upon that?
There is a migration step you can do beyond simply backup and restore.
It updates the devices, telling them how to find the new controller.
Obviously, if you are backing up and restoring to the same IP/FQDN you don’t need to worry about it.
I'm looking at my own situation - local Unifi controller, looking to move out of my network. I have local DNS server pointing the way.. which I assume I would just point at the new IP.
What is this other step you're talking about yet not actually typing?
It is in the controller I said that..
@JaredBusch said in Migrating site from UNMS CK to UNMS:
@Dashrender said in Migrating site from UNMS CK to UNMS:
@JaredBusch said in Migrating site from UNMS CK to UNMS:
@Dashrender said in Migrating site from UNMS CK to UNMS:
@JaredBusch said in Migrating site from UNMS CK to UNMS:
@scottalanmiller said in Migrating site from UNMS CK to UNMS:
Unifi gear has a simple import/export option on a site by site basis.
And if you do that process under control with all things online, it tells the devices how to find the new UniFi controller as part of it.
It is a very good process.
can you expand upon that?
There is a migration step you can do beyond simply backup and restore.
It updates the devices, telling them how to find the new controller.
Obviously, if you are backing up and restoring to the same IP/FQDN you don’t need to worry about it.
I'm looking at my own situation - local Unifi controller, looking to move out of my network. I have local DNS server pointing the way.. which I assume I would just point at the new IP.
What is this other step you're talking about yet not actually typing?
It is in the controller I said that..
and yet specificity is totally missing.
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Looks like it is only in the legacy view.
https://help.ui.com/hc/en-us/articles/115002869188-UniFi-Migrating-Sites-with-Site-Export-Wizard -
But, like I said, if you are moving everything, you can simply backup and restore, and then update DNS.
