Sentry for same SSID in different locations

[MK2]

Hi, 

has anyone ever faced the problem of having the same SSID name at different locations and wanting to access it via Sentry? Each location is its own network. So I have many settings in SME with the same name. Is that a problem?

[alemabrahao]

When you use the same SSID name across multiple Meraki networks, each network is still treated as a separate entity in the Meraki Dashboard. This means that  Sentry settings are applied per network and if you have multiple networks with the same SSID name, each one will have its own Sentry configuration, even though the SSID name is identical.

Perhaps one option is to use a configuration template.

[MK2]

So what if a iPad get multiple configurations for the same SSID via SME? Did it understand this?

[alemabrahao]

iOS prioritizes the most recently installed or highest priority profile and if multiple Wi-Fi payloads are pushed for the same SSID, only one will be active, usually the one with the highest priority or last applied.

You can assign location-specific tags to devices  Wi-Fi payloads accordingly, and avoid assigning multiple conflicting profiles to the same device.

[MK2]

Thank you for your help.
Do you have any idea how this could be solved without a dedicated RADIUS server, so that all iPads at all locations can connect to the same SSID and the APs would still all be in their respective networks?

[PaulF]

Templates. Templates are the only way to avoid multiple sentry payloads

[MK2 · Accepted solution]

Our solution for that case is to put a numbering in the SSID name, to make it unique for each branch.