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JonathanClark · ‎Mar 8 2024

Hi All, I'm busy working on an API script to turn on/off transmission power of Access Points. We do this during new deployments when its time to migrate over to the new Meraki set up. Prior to the migration, we want them off to not interfere with the current networks in place.

The following command which is on Meraki's Documentation: https://developer.cisco.com/meraki/api-v1/get-network-wireless-rf-profiles/

I keep getting a 500 Internal Server error with this call.

meraki.exceptions.APIError: wireless, getNetworkWirelessRfProfiles - 500 Internal Server Error, <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtm

Has anyone else had this issue? I've made sure I'm getting the network ID correctly and have tested it with a bunch of other functions. Just this one is not working.

Any help? Thank you!

alemabrahao · ‎Mar 8 2024

Take a look at these discussions.

https://community.meraki.com/t5/Developers-APIs/GET-RfProfiles-results-in-empty-list/m-p/131789

https://community.meraki.com/t5/Wireless-LAN/xNetworkWirelessRfProfile-functions-returning-500-Inter...

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JonathanClark · ‎Mar 8 2024

Thank you, I have reviewed these and it seems that others are having the same issue. I can't even get it to reply with the null expression. The network I'm testing on has multiple custom profiles, so data should be returned.

RaphaelL · ‎Mar 8 2024

I just tried it and returned http 200 with the correct payload of my custom RF profile

JonathanClark · ‎Mar 8 2024

Hi RaphaelL, are you able to share your methods of achieving this result? Is this through the Meraki Python library or how are you achieving this result?

RaphaelL · ‎Mar 8 2024

Directly from my web browser https://api.meraki.com/api/v1/networks/XXXXXXXXX/wireless/rfProfiles This is the easiest way to test 'get' endpoints.

rhbirkelund · ‎Mar 8 2024

Instead of setting TX power to migrate between APs, have you considered simply using tags with SSID availability?

Tag all APs with e.g “SSID A” and configure SSID Availability to only broadcast the WLAN on APs with the specified tag. Then remove the tag from old APs and tag the new ones to allow the clients to move over to the new APs.

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rhbirkelund · ‎Mar 8 2024

Create the SSID Availability as such

And then use https://developer.cisco.com/meraki/api-v1/update-device/ to update tags on the AP, inorder to enable or disable the SSID on them individually.

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JonathanClark · ‎Mar 11 2024

Thank you for the suggestion rhbirkelund,

Won't the AP still send out beacons (for meshing etc) even though the SSIDs are switched off?

I'm looking for a solution that will completely disable the antennas until needed.

rhbirkelund · ‎Mar 11 2024

Do you use meshing in the network?

If not, just disable it entirely; Network-Wide -> Configure -> General.

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Python Library. getNetworkWirelessRfProfiles not working

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