I am trying to get the current clients connected in an organization

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omaralrafei
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I am trying to get the current clients connected in an organization

I have searched the API documentation and i haven't found any call that does this out of the box.

I am wondering what's the best API call for me to get the current client count.

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PaulF
Meraki Employee
Meraki Employee

import meraki

API_KEY = '<YOURAPIKEY>'

client = meraki.DashboardAPI(API_KEY)

networks = client.organizations.getOrganizationNetworks(organizationId="<YOURORG>")

clientNum = 0

for network in networks:
    try:
        clients = client.networks.getNetworkClients(networkId=network['id'])
        print(len(clients))
        clientNum = clientNum + len(clients)
    except meraki.APIError as e:
        result = 'fail'

print("Total Clients", str(clientNum))

There's no ORG wide API call presently for network clients, so you'll have to cycle through each network

 

Replace <YOURAPIKEY> and <YOURORG>

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PaulF
Meraki Employee
Meraki Employee

import meraki

API_KEY = '<YOURAPIKEY>'

client = meraki.DashboardAPI(API_KEY)

networks = client.organizations.getOrganizationNetworks(organizationId="<YOURORG>")

clientNum = 0

for network in networks:
    try:
        clients = client.networks.getNetworkClients(networkId=network['id'])
        print(len(clients))
        clientNum = clientNum + len(clients)
    except meraki.APIError as e:
        result = 'fail'

print("Total Clients", str(clientNum))

There's no ORG wide API call presently for network clients, so you'll have to cycle through each network

 

Replace <YOURAPIKEY> and <YOURORG>

PhilipDAth
Kind of a big deal
Kind of a big deal

Building on the excellent answer by @PaulF , the Meraki GitHub "Examples" directory has an example of retrieving all clients and reporting them to CSV files.

https://github.com/meraki/dashboard-api-python/blob/main/examples/aio_org_wide_clients_v1.py

 

omaralrafei
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Thank you Paul for the detailed response. My specific use case is for a JavaScript implementation, but the general approach is clear enough 🙂

Jamieinbox
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omaralrafei
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Hi Jamie, thank you for the example, it will definitely help along with Paul's code.
It seems most of the Meraki API use cases are done in Python. 😅

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