Help managing multiple gateways with one OC220

Help managing multiple gateways with one OC220

Help managing multiple gateways with one OC220
Help managing multiple gateways with one OC220
Yesterday - last edited 23 hours ago
Model: OC220  
Hardware Version: V1
Firmware Version: 1.4.6 Build 20260228 Rel.41983

Can someone please explain to me what I might be doing wrong or if I've missed the point of the OC220 controller entirely.


I have an OC220 at HQ and directly manage an ER605 on the LAN.  I also have two remote sites, one with an ER707 M2 and another with en ER703WP-4G-Outdoor.  All of them are up to date (the ER707 and ER703 are on the initial firmware releases, no upgrades available).  All three sites have IPSec VPN tunnels set up with each other, so any device on any site can access any other site.

 

My issue here is trying to somehow add/adopt the two remote sites into the OC220.  I've looked up multiple guides looking for some way to do this, but what I've run across is either outdated information or guides that don't seem to apply to my scenario.

 

If the OC220 is incapable of directly managing these two other infrastructures then I need to know in a no-nonsense fashion.  If there is some alternative to how I can look at all three sites in a single pane of glass then a clear, concise guide would be greatly appreciated.  The OC220 is supposed to be able to manage multiple gateways, is it not possible to set up multiple sites on the controller and assign gateways to them?

 

One of the biggest headaches in IT is often a lack of proper "prerequisites" and also "gotchas" that come along with a lot of these guides.  Like when I first added an OC220 to my existing ER605, rather than adopting existing configuration it just wiped them out, you would think it would make sense to offer a way to adopt a device and all of its settings into a new site without wiping things completely clean.  Or once again am I missing something?  I don't mind if wiping out and starting over is the only way to do it, at least for one of the sites, but the other would be a pretty sizable pain.

Well after much head scratching, swearing, and research, finally found my answer (mostly) by defining the Inform URL via a Dynamic DNS hostname and setting up port forwarding inbound to the OC220.  As expected some networking stuff broke, but less than I feared by allowing the network to auto detect.

But now the bigger issue is that the gateway no longer broadcasts SSIDs.  Adopting the gateway erased the existing SSIDs and though I've re-added, not even a simple SSID appears to broadcast now even after reboots and multiple attempts to configure via the OC220 Controller.  Very frustrating.

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Re:Help managing multiple gateways with one OC220-Solution
Yesterday - last edited 23 hours ago

  @Silly_Goose 

 

 

If the gateway does not show the SSID, you most likely forgot to check that you have a gateway when you created the SSID.

 

 

 

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Re:Help managing multiple gateways with one OC220-Solution
Yesterday - last edited 23 hours ago

  @Silly_Goose 

 

 

If the gateway does not show the SSID, you most likely forgot to check that you have a gateway when you created the SSID.

 

 

 

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Re:Help managing multiple gateways with one OC220
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  @MR.S Obvious in hindsight, but not obvious in the moment.  

Thank you, and with that, thus ends the majority of my major frustrations with this whole process.  I'm sure I'll lose more hair follicles when it's Time to move the Controller from one physical site to another.

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  @Silly_Goose 

 

The whole system is pretty simple once you get used to it for a while, moving the controller is also pretty simple if you have done the preparation correctly. You are using ddns and not ip so just port forward to the controller at the new location and change the ip on your ddns record.

 

 

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Re:Help managing multiple gateways with one OC220
23 hours ago

  @MR.S I actually thought about this a little before configuring it an yes, everything is on ddns so I appreciate the confirmation of what I figured would be required.

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