Recently I was going away for PTO and had a project that was due to kick-off while I was away. The customer is an organisation with 40+ sites across the country all with an almost identical setup so I built everything using configuration templates. This is an existing customer of ours we are doing a hardware refresh for and moving them to Meraki from another network vendor so we had all the details ready to go.

Using the Meraki API I then:
- Created all the networks and bound them to the relevant configuration template
- Added the hardware to the relevant networks
- Renamed all the devices
- Added a note to each AP with the install location from the wireless predictive planning
- Added a note to each switch with the rack location from the site audit

With the hardware claimed in the dashboard, I was easily able to export the inventory list and import that into our asset management tool within seconds, that's including hostnames, models, serials, MACs etc.

All of this while the hardware was still in transit into the country.

This meant that my handover document for my colleague whilst I was away, was essentially:
1. Label hardware
2. Send to site
3. Plug and play!