Switched from XG management of an APX320 to Sophos Central management. Things went pretty well. A couple of suggestions:
1. It would be nice to be able to bulk-upload static IPs to the XG's DHCP server. When I killed the VXLANs and added VLANs, it was a pain to enter the DHCP static addresses one-at-a-time.
2. One of my favorite things in XG management of APs was being able to see all clients for each SSID, along with signal strength and channel for each. This is very valuable for seeing interference from nearby unaffiliated APs and for seeing poor-reception zones. In SC, you can drill down to an individual machine and see its signal strength over time, which is nice, but you can't see the channel and you can't see across many clients simultaneously.
3. In an online example somewhere on a Sophos site, I noticed that it was recommended to have a VLAN for AP control. A little more explanation of that would be nice. Currently, my AP has three SSIDs: two are guest networks (isolated, etc) and are assigned to VLANs which are in their own Zone, while the main SSID is assigned to a bridge of the AP's port and another port that has a network storage and printer server. This seems to be the equivalent of what was done under the XG management, I think, but I wonder.
4. There was an initial transient bug when I turned off auto channel for both radios (this is an APX320, with both radios set to 5 GHz). It initially wouldn't show the box to manually enter the channels. Eventually, with a little clicking it let me set the channel for the second radio, but not the first. Save and come back and it let me set the channel for the first.
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