Import UniFi Wireless AP over remote network.

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Hereby, short information on howto import UniFi wireless device to UniFi Controller which located over remote network or even different geographic area.

1. Prepare network communication channel thru VPN / MPLS / Metro-E / Tunnel, and make sure it's reacheable from remote network.
2. Deploy DHCP Service in the same network of WAP device location.
3. Turn On WAP devices.
4. Look for WAP devices IP Address on DHCP server lease or using UniFi discovery plugin (here).
5. Access to device using ssh to WAP devices IP Address, using username & password : ubnt.
6. Run the following command within ssh terminal : set-inform http://controller-ip-address:8080/inform.
7. Adopt newly added device in UniFi controller dashboard.

  Firmware upgrade  :

        1. Login to device thru SSH.
        2. Run info, to check Device information and Firmware version
        3. Find valid latest Firmware from https://www.ui.com/download/unifi.
        4. Select Copy URL from selected Firmware.
        5. Run on device : upgrade https://firmware-URL-mentioned-in-point-3.
        6. Device will start upgrading and automatically restart when done.

Alhamdulillah, it's done.