Sharing 4 simple dashboard tips!

[DJDonovan]

Hey Community!

I just wanted to share a short video I made while working from home. Small quick tips that you might not know about the Meraki dashboard. 

4 Quick Dashboard Tips!

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Let me know if you knew about these already or if you found them helpful! 

[DarrenOC]

Useful tips there. Did know the first one with regards switching between sites but only from experience.  Keep them coming

[SopheakMang]

Wah , Very nice , Thanks for sharing bro

[CptnCrnch]

Great idea Donovan! Guess there will always be some bells and whistles many will not even think of. Are you possibly thinking about delivering this as a series of videos?

[DJDonovan]

That's the plan! Although there won't be a structured series, just short videos of info I think will be helpful. My idea for the next video is a quick and dirty walkthrough of Auto VPN troubleshooting with Wireshark.

[DarrenOC]

Surely there isn't much to troubleshoot on the Auto VPN side...? A few clicks and you're done 🙂

What about dashboard best practice when bringing up a new site i.e changing Timezones, Naming the site, setting Spanning Tree Root etc etc.?

[rwiesmann]

Hi Donavan, many thank for your video...like to see such tipps more often! They help on our day to day work.

[BrechtSchamp]

Knew all of them already, but I'm still grateful that you're doing this!

I especially like the word of caution for the last one because the throughput test has confused me in the past. For example, in my experience, the MS220-8P switches give a totally different result than the other product groups, no idea why.

[cmr]

Good tips, I liked the second one in particular, did not know that! For the third you can also do full tunnel with a mesh site by adding an exit hub as per the below screenshot:

[QLSteve]

Very helpful tips!  Will def save alot of clicking!!

[frenz]

good video, thx for sharing! 🙂

[PeterJames]

Thanks @DJDonovan,

That shift select when working with Meraki SM could have saved me so much time over the years 😁

The (deselect all) should somehow be highlighted more; may have caused an issue once or two.

Thank you,

Peter James

[ZeeBoussaid]

i knew all these features, my favorite is the port bulk config. thank you for sharing this as it can be very helpful to others.

[van604]

going to steal some of these tips, didn't know some of them