Top 2-3 Meraki Workflows

[GinaR]

I’m evaluating Meraki for a wireless deployment and wanted to understand from a practical standpoint — what are the top 2–3 workflows customers genuinely find most useful day-to-day?

In particular, which workflows actually simplify operations at scale, beyond just feature lists?

Appreciate any real-world insights.

[PhilipDAth]

I've only written custom workflows so far.  We use them to proceduralise tasks that need to be repeated a lot.  We did this to remove the "human factor" and make common tasks more repeatable.

The last workflow I wrote was for replacing EOL kit.  It backs up current settings (like address, name, notes, etc), removes the EOL device from the network and gives it a special name for tracking and rollback, adds the replacement device, and restores all the settings.

Previously, one engineer would be scheduled to replace one EOL device at a time.

Once this process was implemented, we increased that to 6 concurrent replacements.

This allowed each engineer to complete 6x more of these tasks in the same amount of time.  What was a 6-month rollout became a single-month rollout.

[JeroenVercoulen]

@PhilipDAth you should share those kind of workflow with the community 🙂

Myself I'm working on a workflow to migrate the Cloud Monitored C9200 and C9300 series switches to Meraki Cloud Managed mode. Also in the last phase of a script to migrate C2960X config to Meraki switch config. This both still need to be tested though.

[GIdenJoe]

I think workflows is a visual representation of API handling that comes with it's own environment to run the code on.  So this is very handy since you don't need to set up your own "server" to run your code on.  And since it can talk to just about anything it is a nice centralized place to do stuff.

I have only dabbled in it a bit on a need to have basis.

For example: during our years of operation we have multiple orgs in our msp portal that are pointing network flows to our cloud based syslog for troubleshooting purposes.  Since not every engineer documented it and has forgotten of a few we now need to loop through all our orgs to find which networks have syslog server configured to our server.  So I'm working on that 😉