We are super excited to announce the launch of the new Switching Overview feature as part of our continuously improving Meraki dashboard! This new feature provides a centralized management hub that gives you a comprehensive view of the status and performance of your switch infrastructure, allowing for better network understanding and identification of potential issues.
Some of the benefits of the new Switching Overview feature include:
- Enhanced monitoring experience: The new feature is designed to consolidate wide-ranging alerts, metrics, and overall switch infrastructure health into a condensed bird’s eye view.
- Reduced click-time: You no longer need to browse through an assortment of dashboard pages. View and monitor your switching network with efficiency and speed.
- Ability to forecast future network needs: Understand your switching network’s capacity and current utilization to better predict and plan for network expansion needs.
The Switching Overview panel consists of:
- Switch-specific alerts
- Connected total switch clients
- Events and errors
- PoE and data usage
- Active switchport capacity and utilization
Beta Feedback
We'd love to hear your feedback on Switching Overview, so please try it out and let us know what you think! As with all our beta releases, your feedback will help us improve the feature and make it even better for future use. Simply click on the “Give feedback about this info” button at the bottom of the panel (see image below).
How do I enable this new feature?
This brand new feature is now available for opt-in via the Early Access Program by Meraki. You can navigate to Organization -> Early Access and select opt-in to the Switching Overview feature.
The new Switching Overview panel will then be found by clicking on the Switch card of the Health widget under Network-wide -> Clients page (see below):
Additional information can be found in our Meraki Documentation.
Thanks for checking it out!
