GL.iNet GoodCloud¶
Contents¶
- Introduction
- Setup
- Manage your devices
- Site to Site
- Batch Setting
- Template Management
- Task List
- GoodCloud and VPN
- Turn off cloud
Introduction¶
GL.iNet GoodCloud cloud management service provide an easy and simple way to remotely access and manage routers. There is a video introduction below.
Introducing GoodCloud, Your Remote Device Management Solution.
Easy Guide to Setting Up your GoodCloud Wi-Fi Management System for SMEs.
Features:
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Check live router status
- Live online offline status check
- Live RAM and Load Average check
- LTE Signal
- Email alarm about online offline status update
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Set up routers remotely
- Set up routers (e.g. SSID and Key) remotely
- Remote SSH
- Remote access web Admin Panel
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Monitoring clients on routers remotely
- Check who is on your network
- Realtime traffic monitoring and block clients
- Email alarm about new client and block
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Operate routers in batch
- Set up config templates and configure routers in batch
- Reboot or upgrade routers in batch
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Manage routers in groups
- Divide devices in different groups
- Manage devices in one page
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Site to Site
- Virtual Office: extend your office network to other offices
- Business Travel: remote access office's OA, CRM, MySQL systems
- Smart Home: remote access IP camera, NAS and other devices at home
Setup¶
There is a video tutorial below about how to enable cloud function and bind it to GoodCloud.
Enable GoodCloud on router¶
On the left side of web Admin Panel -> APPLICATIONS -> GoodCloud.
Follow the steps above, to enable the cloud function, which will allow the router to connect to the GoodCloud server.
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Remote SSH is for remote access router's terminal via GoodCloud. Check out here.
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Remote Web Access is for remote access router's web Admin Panel via GoodCloud. Check out here.
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Data Server, please choose the server which is nearest your devices located. There are three Data Server, Asia Pacific(Japan), America(Oregon) and Europe(Ireland).
Sign up GoodCloud account¶
Visit https://www.goodcloud.xyz, sign up then sign in. If you don't find the verify email, look in spam or check email later. If you have any difficulty with sign up, please send email to support@glinet.biz for help.
Select server region¶
At the first time when you sign in, it will pop up a dialog to let you select the region, please select the region same as your device selected Data Server on the web Admin Panel (Step of enable GoodCloud on router).
You can change the region on the top right corner at anytime.
Add a new group¶
On the left side -> Groups List -> Add group.
Follow the steps below to add a new group.
Set the group name, company, description and location.
Each device must belong to a group.
Add device¶
On the left side -> Devices List -> Add Device. There are three methods to bind device to your GoodCloud account, Auto discover, Manually add and Bulk import.
If your router and PC(which opened GoodCloud website) are in the same network, please try the Auto discover.
Follow the steps below to add your device.
Check out here to find the Device ID.
Note: Input "DDNS/Device ID" here just to verify that the router is really
original/valid.
If you haven't added a group before, it will automatically create a default
group.
Click Refresh to force auto discover devices again.
If it can't discover automatically, try Manually add. All information that need to input can be found on the back of the router.
Note: Input "MAC", "SN" and "DDNS" / "Device ID" here just to verify that the
router is really original and valid.
For new models, it has Device ID on the back of router.
For old models, it has DDNS on the back of the router. Only the first 7 characters of DDNS are needed.
Bulk import is for user who have a great number of devices to add. By Bulk import you can import many devices by a Microsoft excel file.
Bound info on router web Admin Panel¶
After you seccessfully add router to GoodCloud, go back to router web Admin Panel, on the left side, APPLICATION -> GoodCloud,
refresh this page, It will display the bound GoodCloud username and date.
Unbind router¶
If you want to unbind the router, go to router web Admin Panel, on the left side, APPLICATION -> GoodCloud, click Unbind button.
Manage your devices¶
Devices info and status¶
Sign in Goodcloud, check at left side -> Device List
there is icon at the first column of this table,
means this device is online.
means this device is offline.
means this device is deactivated, it has never connected to GoodCloud before.
Select the column you want to display.
Online time is the latest time when device connected GoodCloud.
Offline time is the latest time when device disconnected GoodCloud.
Update time is the latest time when device connected or disconnected GoodCloud.
IP, if your router run VPN client, this IP will be your VPN IP by default. Learn More
LTE Signal¶
Only available for 4G devices, e.g. GL-MiFi, GL-X750
Toggle the column on Device List page.
It will show Signal strength, Type, and relavant parameters.
Device detail info¶
At left side -> Device List, click the name of an online device, it will open a page to manage this device of WiFi, Clients and view router info, memory usage, up time, load average and log.
Device info¶
WiFi¶
Modify all WiFi settings.
Router status¶
Client list¶
Timeline¶
Timeline tab display the activities of router, and messages uploaded by the router's associated IoT device.
Tools¶
There are two tools, Ping and Traceroute.
Remote access web Admin Panel¶
Note: Please upgrade to 3.211 to use this feature.
If you can't find these icons, please make sure you have enable it, check out here.
If this feature not work, please try the incognito mode of browser.
Remote access router's terminal¶
Note: Please upgrade to 3.211 to use this feature.
If you can't find these icons, please make sure you have enable it, check out here.
If this feature not work, please try the incognito mode of browser.
Set email alarm¶
You can set email alarm when a device is online, offline, and new client connected.
At left side -> Setting -> Alarm Setting, create alarm rules
Then set the email you want to receive notification. To ensure you get email successful, please add admin@goodcloud.xyz to your email address book.
Site to Site¶
Please refer to GoodCloud Site to Site.
Batch Setting¶
You can use this feature to configure multiple parameters for a single device, or you can configure multiple parameters for multiple devices.
Note: This feature is only available to business users.
Batch Setting of Single Device¶
To configure single device, as show below.
The left side of image below is correct. If your interface is like the right side of image below, please upgrade to latest testing firmware.
Check the configuration that needs to be modified and input value.
The checked configuration is required, and only the configuration that conforms to the rule can be filled out. After the configuration is delivered, it does not take effect immediately. The configuration takes effect and the device needs to be restarted. You can check the Restart now option in the lower right corner of the above figure. After the configuration is completed, the device will restart immediately.
Preview the configuration and confirm the delivery.
Unchecked Restart now option will prompt.
Batch Setting of Mutiple Devices¶
Select the devices you want to configure.
Other operations are the same as when operating a single device.
Other Batch Operations¶
Other Batch Operations: Move to other group, upgrade, restart, delete.
Template Management¶
Save frequently used configurations as templates and quickly apply them when you modify configurations in batches.
Note: This feature is only available to business users.
Add a Template¶
Check the configuration that needs to be modified and input value. Most of the options are the same as those on web Admin Panel.
Upgrade¶
Upgrade Path is for upgrading custom firmware. Put the firmware and a text file on a web server, then put the url path on the Upgrade Path. For example, https://fw.gl-inet.com/firmware/ar750/v1/ is a Upgrade Path, it has a list-sha256.txt file https://fw.gl-inet.com/firmware/ar750/v1/list-sha256.txt and a corresponding firmware file https://fw.gl-inet.com/firmware/ar750/v1/openwrt-ar750-3.203-0701.bin.
Note: GL-AX1800, GL-S1300, GL-B1300, GL-AP1300 only support http path for now.
The content of the text file is like this, its name should be list-sha256.txt. It has 4 columns, the first column is firmware version, the second column is the name of firmware file, the thrid column is the sha256 of firmware file, the forth column is the size of firmware file.
Give the template a name and description.
Apply a template to a router¶
If you have created a template, then want to apply this template to a router. On the Device List page, find the router that you want to apply the template, make sure it is online, on the Actions column, click the cog icon, click Modify Configuration item. It will pop up a dialog Configure batch modification.
On the top right corner of the dialog, you can choose a template that has already created. Then click Apply button on the bottom right corner.
It will pop up another dialog to review the configuration of the template, scroll down to the bottom to click the Confirm button, it will load the configuration of template overwrite to this time modification.
Click Apply button, please note that the router will restart to take effect after click the Apply button.
Apply a template to multiple routers¶
If you have created a template, then want to apply this template to multiple routers. This procedure is similar to that applied to a single router. On the Device List page, multiple select routers, then click Bulk Action, click Modify Configuration item. It will pop up a dialog Configure batch modification.
On the top right corner of the dialog, you can choose a template that has already created. Then click Apply button on the bottom right corner.
It will pop up another dialog to review the configuration of the template, scroll down to the bottom to click the Confirm button, it will load the configuration of template overwrite to this time modification.
Click Apply button, please note that the router will restart to take effect after click the Apply button.
Task List¶
At task list page, it shows the execution result of the configuration template.
Note: This feature is only available to business users.
You can view the execution result of each device and configuration.
GoodCloud and VPN¶
If you enable GoodCloud function and running VPN client at the same time on router, by default, the connection between the router and the GoodCloud server will also go through the VPN, but sometimes the VPN connection is unstable, or the VPN provider mistakenly filters the GoodCloud connection, you can make the GoodCloud connection not go through the VPN by using the following settings.
Go to web Admin Panel, on the left side, VPN -> VPN Dashboard -> VPN Client -> Global Options.
It is not recommended to run Site to Site while its nodes are also running VPN client, which can make the network particularly complex.
Turn off cloud¶
To stop GoodCloud service, turn it off on router web Admin Panel. Please follow the steps below. No action needed on the GoodCloud website.
After disable Cloud, the interface is like below.
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