Find a client in multiple network ID's

[Erick31]

Hello,

Im doing a test project using the Meraki API. I can easily figure out how to find a client on a network when I have a specific network ID and get the response. However, in our case we have multiple buildings with multiple network ID's. 

Is there a way in the API to do a search for a client that would look for that client on multiple network ID's? 

[sungod]

Don't think there's an org-wide call for clients.

You can just use getOrganizationNetworks to get the list of networks, then iterate over that with getNetworkClients to give you the complete client list, or use a filter argument to limit response to the one you want based on client MAC.

[Erick31]

ok thanks... Thats what I figured the answer would be, but just wanted to check.

[MarkD_BT]

 as sungod stated. I have achieved this but is a very long winded process depending on how many sites and users you have.

parse all networks then iterate through each network to pull back the clients on a network 

https://api.meraki.com/api/v1/networks/{networkId}/clients

You can add timescales onto this with appending something like the following on the url to set a time scale below brings back a 1000 user's per site for the last 5 hours.

?timespan=18000&perPage=1000

add the results into a variable to either filter on what your looking for or output to a csv to then query from the spreadsheet. I've found searching against Mac address easiest but getting harder to use mac with randomised mac's

[Erick31]

Thank you for the information. That leads me down a closer path to what I need. Luckily I work in a school with controlled devices, so we shut off the Mac randomization 🙂