getOrganizationApplianceVpnStatuses error 400

[Rob2020]

Hello

I am new to Meraki API v1 and Python. I need to do a getOrganizationApplianceVpnStatuses query for all organizations. When I query an Org that doesn't have site-to-site VPN configured, it returns error 400 and the script stops.
How can I catch the error and avoid stopping the script?

I hope your help.

Thank you.

[sungod]

This sort of thing is pretty common with the API, especially when grabbing data across a wide scope, where you get an error rather than, say, null data.

You can handle it using Python's exception handling  https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/errors.html  this is also useful for coping with rate limiting.

For instance (cut/paste from a real script, this sits within a while loop that is part of the rate limit retry logic)...

        try:

            # get list of devices on network

            devices = await aiomeraki.networks.getNetworkDevices(net['id'])

        except meraki.AsyncAPIError as e:

            if "429 Too Many Requests" in str(e):

                time.sleep(10 * attempt)

                continue

            print(f'mrssids devices Meraki API error: {e}', file=sys.stderr)

            return

        except Exception as e:

            print(f'mrssids devices some other error: {e}', file=sys.stderr)

            return

        else:

            # only process if there's at least one device

            if devices:

        ...

[Rob2020]

Thanks Godsun, but I have tried the following code and the problem persists:

Sorry, but the indentation doesn't work here.

import meraki

API_KEY = 'API-KEY'
dashboard = meraki.DashboardAPI(API_KEY)

responseOrg = dashboard.organizations.getOrganizations()

for rowOrg in responseOrg:
try:
organization_id = rowOrg['id']
response = dashboard.appliance.getOrganizationApplianceVpnStatuses(organization_id, total_pages='all') ---> ERROR
print(response)

except meraki.AsyncAPIError as e:
if "400 Bad Request" in str(e):
print("Error:")

LOG:
2020-09-27 20:57:08 meraki: INFO > GET https://api.meraki.com/api/v1/organizations
2020-09-27 20:57:09 meraki: INFO > organizations, getOrganizations - 200 OK
2020-09-27 20:57:09 meraki: INFO > GET https://api.meraki.com/api/v1/organizations/<ORG>/appliance/vpn/statuses
2020-09-27 20:57:10 meraki: ERROR > appliance, getOrganizationApplianceVpnStatuses - 400 Bad Request, {'errors': ['Site-to-site VPN not enabled in your organization']}

When line whit tag ERROR is executed, the error occurs and the exception is not caught.The code does work with Org that have Site-to-site VPN configured, but with those that do not have it, this error occurs.

[Jon_Hartman]

Are you using AIO? It appears you're trying to catch errors for it, yet are using the standard library calls. Please try something like the following:

try:

    <API Call>

except meraki.APIError as e:

    print(e)

    print(e.status, e.reason)

else:

    pass:

    <do something upon success>

[Rob2020]

Hi JonH, thanks for all. I tried the following code, but when the exception occurred the script stopped and I don't query the rest of the organizations, is there a way to catch the error but continue to run the script?

import meraki

API_KEY = 'API-KEY'
dashboard = meraki.DashboardAPI(API_KEY)
OrgList=['IdOrg1','IdOrg2','IdOrg3']

def GetVpnOrg(idOrg):
response = dashboard.appliance.getOrganizationApplianceVpnStatuses(
i, total_pages='all'
)
return response

try:
for i in OrgList:
VpnOrg = GetVpnOrg(i)
print(VpnOrg)

except meraki.APIError as e:
if "400 Bad Request" in str(e): 
print(e)
print(e.status, e.reason)

[Rob2020 · Accepted solution]

Hello again, I think I have already understood the way to do it. I have tried the following code and it works according to my needs. Thank you all.

import meraki

API_KEY = 'API-KEY'
dashboard = meraki.DashboardAPI(API_KEY)
OrgList=['IdOrg1','IdOrg2','IdOrg3']

def GetVpnOrg(idOrg):
     response = dashboard.appliance.getOrganizationApplianceVpnStatuses(
     i, total_pages='all'
     )
     return response

for i in lista:
     try:
          VpnOrg = GetVpnOrg(i)
     except meraki.APIError as e:
          if "400 Bad Request" in str(e): 
          print(e)
          print(e.status, e.reason)
          VpnOrg = "NO VPN"
print(VpnOrg)

[Jon_Hartman]

In addition to try / except / else, you can use a "finally" statement at the end, that will be executed, irrespective of what happened before it.

[John_on_API]

You can use the code block formatter when making a reply (under the ... menu) to add a code block that preserves formatting. Might help here, to better show your code!

[Rob2020]

Thank you all.