Hey everyone
I worked with a team member of mine to come up with an automated script that runs on our Ansible server that will reboot whichever Meraki access point that has 'API' at the end of its name (or really just in the name), on a weekly scheduled basis, with email reporting. This could be used I'm sure for MX or MS as well, but we are only using it for access points.
Feel free to critique. I'm not a Python person by any means, but this works great:
import json
import sys
import requests
import time
import email
import smtplib
cisco_meraki_api_Key = 'XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX'
organizationId = 'XXXXXX'
baseUrl = 'https://dashboard.meraki.com/api/v0/'
inventory_api_url = "organizations/{}/inventory".format(organizationId)
headers = {
'X-Cisco-Meraki-API-Key': cisco_meraki_api_Key,
'Content-Type': 'application/json'
}
get_inventory = requests.get(baseUrl+inventory_api_url,
headers=headers,
)
# Parse the get_inventory into json
inventory_json = get_inventory.json()
networkID = ""
serial = ""
# Opens or create a file name results
f = open('results.txt', "w+")
# loop over all the dictionaries inside inventory_json,
# if API is inside the dictionary it will get the NetworkID and the serial and then write it to the string above
for ap in inventory_json:
try:
if 'API' in ap['name']:
networkID = ap['networkId']
serial = ap['serial']
ap_name = ap['name']
reboot_api_call = requests.post(
baseUrl+'/networks/{}/devices/{}/reboot'.format(networkID, serial ),
headers=headers)
if reboot_api_call.status_code == 200:
print('Rebooting --->', ap_name, '---> Successful' , file=f)
print("---------------------------------------------------",file=f)
if reboot_api_call.status_code == 400:
print ('Rebooting --->', ap_name, '---> Bad Request' , file=f)
print("---------------------------------------------------",file=f)
if reboot_api_call.status_code == 403:
print ('Rebooting --->', ap_name, '---> Forbidden' , file=f)
print("---------------------------------------------------",file=f)
if reboot_api_call.status_code == 404:
print ('Rebooting --->', ap_name, '---> Not Found' , file=f)
print("---------------------------------------------------",file=f)
if reboot_api_call.status_code == 429:
print ('Rebooting --->', ap_name, '---> Too Many Requests' , file=f)
print("---------------------------------------------------",file=f)
time.sleep(2)
except:
continue
# closes the file
f.close()
# Setting up the SMTP Server
sender = 'meraki_api@company.local'
receiver = 'yourteam@company.com'
smtp_server = smtplib.SMTP(host='X.X.X.X', port=25)
f = open('results.txt', "r")
# reads the information inside the file results
script_result = f.read()
message = """From: <meraki_api@company.local>
To: <yourteam@company.com>
Subject: Meraki AP Reboot
API CODE: 200 = Successful
API CODE: 400 = Bad Request
API CODE: 403 = Forbidden
API CODE: 404 = Not Found
API CODE: 429 = Too Many Requests
{}
""".format(script_result)
# Email execution
try:
smtp_server.sendmail(sender, receiver, message)
print('Successfully sent email')
except:
print('Error: Unable to send email')
# closes the file.
f.close()
Every now and then an AP's 5GHz radio (random) will just get hung up. Never been able to determine why. Has happened on different code versions. Usually takes a few weeks to months for it to crop up. Too much effort to review event logs for every AP (which makes it easy to see if the radio is bugged out or not), so its just easier to reboot them once a week so they never have enough 'bake time' to run into it.
MR32 happen much more often vs MR33
Yeah i noticed it was trying to reboot access points that were not on a network yet, but had the network name in the AP name still. I'll see what I can do to tweak 😃
However, I have SPARE access points in the network that are 'offline' that still show as being rebooted. I'll have to tweak the script for that new API call you told me about and that way it will also ignore offline devices.
@webrama wrote:Hi Nolan
Thanks for sharing this with us. Do you have an updated script? Also, is this script written to only work on ansible since I see the import json, sys etc at the beginning of the script and not sure how I can automate this on windows task for example. Any help would be appreciated.
If your using Windows, then you can use WSL2 to run an Ubuntu app, or do it in a container etc., but probably easier to just use the Ubuntu app from the Windows store.
Import JSON is to import the json python library so you can parse the return data from the Meraki inventory API call, when receives the inventory and returns it as JSON data.
I should clarifiy 'ansible server' is really just a linux server i called ansible server because we were/are using it for other actual ansible tasks. However this is just python, sorry about the confusion.
In my example it is using the keyword 'API' which must exist within the AP name for it to 'catch' it. You can change that to something else if you want. What I use is 'CRON' and i placed at the end of all my AP's for my small sites, '-CRON' for them to reboot. Been working great for me for a while now.
You can do this on a per-network basis too, so I have other sites that have AP's that start with say 'PHX' for the site code, so any AP name that has PHX will reboot for example, and if I don't want them to, I change the name to PH~X etc., to break it for that AP.
Out of curiosity, how are you validating if the AP was rebooted or not.
