Are network IDs globally unique?

[PhilipDAth]

Are network IDs globally unique, or only guaranteed to be unique to an organisation?

[DexterLaBora · Accepted solution]

The following IDs are always globally unique within the Meraki cloud, and allow for scoped resources. 

organizationId

networkId

serial

Side note,

The fact that some endpoints required both is something we are removing in v1

v0
/network/:networkId/devices/:serial/fooBar

v1

/devices/:serial/fooBar

[Edgar-VO]

This if you are making use of the REST API, but what if you are using the meraki module in github.

I assume (hope) there nothing will change regarding the calls of specific 

[DexterLaBora]

The Meraki Python module is based off of our OpenAPI spec. It is essentially a different view of our REST API, so all types, operations, etc should be consistent.

[PhilipDAth]

That is going to save me a heap of API calls.

Hopefully you can add mac addreess as being globally unique as well... 

[PhilipDAth]

What is the maximum length of a networkId string?  I've currently defined it as a varchar(16) ...

[Edgar-VO]

Good Morning,

I was always under the impression that MAC Addresses were unique.... 

I know you can change MAC addresses on some devices (VMWare, etc) but generally speaking they are unique

Ed.

[DexterLaBora]

"I know you can change MAC addresses on some devices (VMWare, etc)" is the exact reason why they are not globally unique.

In addition, the current "clientId" is only unique to the network (for similar reasons). This is something we are still thinking about.