Feature Announcements

Hello, Meraki API Community!

We are thrilled to announce the launch of an exciting new feature in the Meraki Dashboard API: Callbacks.

WHAT ARE CALLBACKS?

Callbacks are a modern solution for times when you find yourself wondering about the status of your long running API tasks. They allow you to initiate a process, such as pinging a device or executing a phased deployment, and then step back. No more pondering "where you are and what you do" – the callback will bring the answers to you.

HOW DO CALLBACKS WORK?

Initiate an API call with a callback, and when it’s time for your network to respond, it's as if it’s saying, "Hello, is it me you're looking for?" You receive a notification at your specified webhook URL once the operation is completed, detailed with the operation’s status and results. This means real-time updates without the constant need to query the API.

When you log into the Meraki dashboard, you’ll now have the option to turn on colorblind assist mode across the entire dashboard. In this mode, green, yellow and red have been replaced with blue, orange and a new hue of red. 

MS16 Stable is available! 

Upgrade to this new version for remote network traffic analysis flow improvement and network security enhancement. We encourage you to upgrade to the latest software release and provide us with your feedback.  

How to upgrade

Head on over to the firmware management page to schedule your upgrades now.  Check out the article in Documentation for step-by-step instructions. 

Don’t forget to use our new staged upgrades and firmware upgrade status features to help you save time and effort. You can schedule, stage, or sequence update groups ahead of time and reuse these groups. 

We are excited to share that the Org-level RADIUS Server Configuration feature is available to enable via public preview! This new feature supports Meraki Switching today and is designed to help you further streamline and reduce potential mistakes in configuring and updating local RADIUS servers. Navigate to Organization > Early Access page, and toggle “Opt-in" now. 

Dashboard UI for the API

We are thrilled to introduce a new page in the Meraki Dashboard dedicated solely to API and Webhook management. Navigate to Organization → Configure → API & Webhooks to explore the new features designed to simplify your developer experience.

We are excited to announce that Cisco Meraki Canada Region has added support for MX SD-WAN Plus and MI Insight. With MX SD-WAN Plus, users get access to ThousandEyes insights, Smart L7 local internet breakout, performance-based routing, and ML-powered analytics. Meraki Insight provides end-to-end visibility into how users experience a network, providing performance management and troubleshooting with zero setup or configuration required.

The MT15 Indoor Air Quality with CO2 Sensor is here!

We are excited to announce that our new AP Neighbors feature will become publicly available for beta soon! AP Neighbors aims to provide enhanced visibility and insights to Meraki dashboard users on their access point environments.

Designed to greatly improve the management of access point RF interference, AP neighbors provides IT administrators with the tools necessary to maintain network performance and proactively address potential poor performance due to signal overlap from multiple APs.

AP Neighbors Page

We are excited to share that Named VLANs MS Port Configuration can be enabled via the Early Access Page. This is our first step in building out continued functionality and simplicity by taking advantage of the VLAN Profiles feature on various configuration elements throughout the dashboard.  Navigate to Organization > Early Access page, and toggle “Opt-in" now! 

We’re excited to announce that all iOS 17 devices, including the new iPhone 15, iPhone 15 Plus, iPhone15 Pro, and iPhone 15 Pro Max can be enrolled and managed with Systems Manager MDM.

Additionally, there is now a new simple way to fetch device model information - Apple products will now report their device model and show them in the Meraki dashboard automatically.

Today, we are excited to announce the latest advancements in Meraki Trusted Access, designed to transform your wireless network onboarding experience with Meraki MR access points:

• Dedicated app support for Windows 10+ devices
• A new streamlined browser-based solution for Android 10+ users utilizing Passpoint (Hotspot 2.0) technology
• Email notifications to alert users of impending access expiration

We've provided camera-only admin for some time on the MV smart camera side. Now with IoT Admin, we are opening it up for customers to provide their facilities members MT sensor-only admin! 

We are excited to announce that SES-imagotag ESL (Electronic Shelf Labels) integration is now supported on our newest APs - MR28, MR78 and CW9162, CW9164, and CW9166 APs giving customers more models to choose from to meet their wireless and IoT needs. 

We are excited to announce additional Catalyst 9300 switches can now be migrated to Meraki management mode.  Join us and unlock the flexibility and control at the cloud scale today with the Meraki dashboard.  

Newly added support: 

• Switches: C9300 24S/48S, C9300X 12Y/24Y

• Network modules: C9300-NM-2Y*, C9300X-NM-2C, C9300X-NM-8Y* (please note: the C9300X-NM network modules are compatible only with the C9300X switches)

• Other C9300 compatible network modules: C9300-NM-2Q, C9300-NM-8X, C3850-NM-2-40G, C3850-NM-4-10G, C3850-NM-8-10G

* Please note that C9300-NM-2Y and C9300X-NM-8Y support up to 10G in Meraki cloud-managed mode.

For more information, please refer to this announcement post. 

Resource:

• FAQs
• Quick Migration Guide 
• Getting started documentation

To further enhance the zero-touch provisioning deployment options, we are excited to announce the public preview of Auto Stacking. With Auto Stacking, the dashboard will now auto-provision detected switch stacks without user intervention.  Navigate to Organization > Early Access page, and toggle “Opt-in” to enable this new feature! 

Check out this documentation for details. 

Did you miss some of the exciting new feature releases from the Meraki Switching team? Watch this 5-minute video for a quick recap to learn more about how these features can help streamline your network deployments as well as day-to-day operations!

Watch now. 

We are excited to announce the public Early Access launch for Systems Manager Scripting! This will allow Meraki Systems Manager to deploy Powershell scripts (.ps1) to Windows devices and shell (.sh) scripts to macOS devices. This is Systems Manager's first Meraki Early Access feature!

Scripting has been a popular feature request for Systems Manager for a long time, so we are excited to finally share this feature. Scripts allow powerful configuration and management control over Windows and macOS devices. 

Navigate to Organization > Early Access page and toggle “Opt-in” for "Deploy scripts for Windows and macOS" to enable this new feature. 

We are excited to announce that Cisco Meraki for Government is now available to buy for our U.S. Federal customers. Cisco Meraki for Government provides a secure and efficient way to support networking transformation within budget.

Our cloud-managed platform simplifies networking to make it easier to deploy, manage, and optimize networks-driving IT modernization and enabling hybrid work. Meraki helps future proof networks and allows agencies to stay ahead of changing citizen and regulatory demands while improving employee productivity.​

We’re excited to announce an all new landing page as part of our Next Generation Dashboard initiative. This complete refresh was designed to make it even easier to see at a glance what’s happening within your networks.  Starting today, customers with multiple networks will begin to gain access to the new landing page.

 Here are some of the top benefits of the new landing page:

• Immediately access a broad view of your organization upon login to the Dashboard.
• Quickly gain context on issues to troubleshoot faster.
• Save time by gaining high level visibility across your entire organization in one view
• Did we mention it's extremely fast? We increased the page load performance to get you the data you need when you need it.

Are you a Canadian customer that would like to store data locally? If so, we can help! We’ve created Cisco Meraki Canada Region, a separate cloud platform that stores network management data within Canada. Cisco Meraki Canada Region is now generally available and provides the same security, reliability and redundancy offered by our distributed cloud architecture.  
 
Main benefits: 

1. Same ease of use as our commercial cloud  
2. Same end-to-end visibility across your networks 
3. Same security and reliability 
4. No user data passes through the Meraki platform 
5. Network management data stored in Canada 

Update: We have reached our target number of customers for this beta program. We appreciate the excitement and support!

We’re thrilled to invite you to join our exclusive private beta program for the highly anticipated Cisco SSO (Single Sign On) feature that will be rolled out to most Meraki users in early 2024. The beta program will start in late July to early August 2023, for a select number of customers prior to the public release of this new feature.

We are excited to announce the public preview of Port Profiles feature. 

Please note: This feature has no minimum firmware requirements, MS15.21.1 or later is recommended for the best overall management experience. Port profiles are supported on non-templated switching networks. Support for Configuration Templates and networks bound to configuration templates will be added in the near future. 

Need more information? 

Check out the Port Profiles documentation pages for details. Should you encounter any issues, please do not hesitate to contact Meraki Support for assistance. 

Exciting news for you all as we announce the addition of new solutions from our amazing ecosystem partner - Boundless Digital! At Cisco Meraki, we are always striving to improve the power of our network management capabilities and with our partnership with Boundless Digital we are doing just that.

MT14 & MT10 are now certified by a third-party verification company!

We are excited to announce eligible Catalyst 9300 switches can now migrate to Meraki management mode.  Join us and unlock the flexibility and control at the cloud scale today with the Meraki dashboard. 

Eligible models:

• C9300-24P/T/U/UX
• C9300-48P/T/U/UN/UXM 

We are excited to announce the release of our latest MS16 software beta version! This release delivered new features and improvements designed to make you more efficient and productive. Upgrade to this new version today for remote network traffic analysis flow improvement and network security enhancement. We encourage you to upgrade to the latest software release and provide us with your feedback.  

Eligible platforms 

MS16 will be applicable to all non-MS390 switches. If your network has MS390 and/or migrated C9300, please refer to our latest Catalyst-based Switching (CS) firmware release. 

Cisco+ Secure Connect is a turnkey, unified Service Edge Secure Access (SASE) solution designed to deliver an exceptional user experience with minimal effort by securely connecting users, things, and applications seamlessly from anywhere. This solution converges cloud-delivered security (SSE) and networking (SD-WAN) on one powerful platform with a single dashboard, making management easy and providing greater visibility and control. There are many use cases that Cisco+ Secure Connect offers, but one of the key use cases is Remote Access. If you would like to learn more, please refer to the document here.

Traditionally, the organization has several hubs deployed as a headend where Remote users establish the connectivity through VPN client. Meraki MX provides this capability with two options: Client-VPN and Cisco Secure Client (aka AnyConnect) VPN. With Cisco+ Secure Connect, you can achieve the same with cloud hubs available in various regions. It provides benefits such as scale, flexibility and cloud-delivered security capabilities that does not limit the performance or impact the end user experience.

While transitioning to the cloud-based Remote Access solution, one of the key questions is, how can I make sure that all my current policies can be applied to the cloud-based solution? One way is to create them from scratch line by line. Or as Meraki says, we make things simple. Cisco+ Secure Connect is built on the fundamental principle of simplicity everywhere, interconnect everything. Hence, the other option is to instead use a newly developed tool - Policy Import.

Yes!! We are very excited to announce that the Policy Import feature is now available in all Cisco+ Secure Connect supported regions. It is specifically designed to simplify the admin experience, where IT can simply follow a few steps via a guided wizard to import all their Remote Access policies from MX SD-WAN to the Cisco+ Secure Connect Cloud Firewall. To learn more, please visit our documentation here.

Meraki is launching an all new dashboard experience focused on simplicity and intelligence. The new dashboard is cleaner in design, more intuitive to use, and makes it even easier to see what’s happening within networks. We’re doing this to help customers accomplish more in less time while also making it easier for them to stay on top of all aspects of their networks.