I'm working on automating a wireless deployment. We currently have each of our branches using an MX appliance, and have set each network up as an appliance or wired network, rather than combined, so that configuration sync would work. Now however, we're adding AP(s) to each branch.
When trying to add an MR device to the network via the API, I get an error that I "Cannot add devices of wireless to a wired network". Alright, that's fair. I'll just change the type of the network to combined first. But, there's apparently no option to change the type on an existing network. I found that the network creation call has an option to define the type, but the update call does not. I also looked to see if the Dashboard interface itself has an easy way to bulk convert networks from appliance to combined, but that doesn't seem to be possible either.
I considered creating each wireless network as its own network, and then combining them into the appliance networks, but there doesn't appear to be a programmatic way to combine networks either. While manually combining the two networks for 250 branches would be do-able, and still an improvement over no automation, it's not ideal.
So, my question, is anyone aware of an effective way to change network types via the API? Or is there a better way to achieve the goal of adding an AP to an existing appliance network?
Any help/ideas are appreciated. Thank you.
