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.