Greetings, all! For the longest time I personally have been at Meraki (it'll be eight years in August 😮), group policy has always been configured on individual networks. You'd select your network, configure settings like layer 3 firewalls, traffic shaping, scheduling, and others... but it was always done manually (or with APIs) on a per-network basis. Binding networks to templates was a sound strategy and provided a solid, consistent platform to build off of -- and templates still are quite useful in this case -- but now we're doing you one more and boosting the network-wide group policy up to the entire organization!
This is convenient for so, SO many reasons -- too many to list here -- but I promise this'll expedite your Meraki configurations. You can check out the documentation on the feature yourself, but highlights include:
- Easily scoping your group policies to networks:
- Setting Rule profiles:
- And setting Objects and object groups:
Although this feature is currently scoped to just MX firewall group policies (more to come as it nears GA) it IS available in public beta. And yes, as always, the best place for you partners and Cisco employees to check out up-and-coming features is Meraki Launchpad. Give it a tour and let us know what you think in comments below, and brush up on your knowledge on group policy by checking out our FREE training on Firmware and Cross-Platform Features on our revamped Learning Hub!
