Search for MAC or IP addr in organization

[dbd]

Perhaps this was done already but I'm looking for an API that can retrieve network id with a given MAC or IP address (WAN/LAN) in organization? Is there such an API?

Thanks in advance!

[jdsilva]

Nope, that API endpoint does not exist.

You'd have to grab every device in the Org (https://api.meraki.com/api_docs#return-the-inventory-for-an-organization) and then grab every client for each device (https://api.meraki.com/api_docs#list-the-clients-of-a-device-up-to-a-maximum-of-a-month-ago) until you find it.

Or, you could grab every network in an Org (https://api.meraki.com/api_docs#list-the-networks-in-an-organization) and then list every client in each network (https://api.meraki.com/api_docs#list-the-clients-that-have-used-this-network-in-the-timespan) until you find your client.

😞

[MarkD_BT]

I can confirm this does work utilising the method from @jdsilva  I have created a script in powershell that does this but as stated it takes a long time to process.. Which is possibly the way my script is written but it works for searching for mac's at least. I search org > network > device then search for clients on the security appliance. We do have 350 sites to search through. You can take that as a basis on whether it is worth setting up. It has allowed us to find some user's who were serial bandwidth hogs and locate which sites they had been to.  

[TonyC]

@dbd Could you elaborate on what you are trying to do, create or build with our API? Any details would be appreciated. We're considering a feature that that matches what you're asking for.

Thanks,
Tony

[dbd]

First of all, thanks to everyone's response.

@TonyC 

I used Postman to send "API" request to get network information such as networks, devices, static routes, etc. My question: is it possible to create/ build / scripting an API (using Postman if possible)  to obtain network id  info with a given known IP/MAC address within organization? Hope it clear...

Thanks.

[Steinbep]

This is an older piece of code but should get you what you need. 

https://github.com/steinbep/Meraki-API---Python/blob/master/find_machine.py

[dbd]

Thanks @Steinbep . With my very limited knowledge of python I think your recommendation of python script may work. now I gotta go to figure out how to run a python script which i'd never done it before 🙂 .

[Steinbep]

@dbd @it will work. It’s what I use. You just need the api key.
 And org id. You can run this from idle or any other ide you want.