Backup WAN Status Alert

[archedmeerkat]

Any plans to add alerting on backup WAN going down? There is an alert if primary fails over to backup, but wanted to find a more proactive way to find backup WAN links going down rather than logging in to find out when we need to fail over.

[ww · Accepted solution]

I guess not.

The options now are:

You can get a alert of status change with meraki insight.

You could use the api to build something yourself.

[Dunky]

Agreed, we use Meraki Insight to provide these alerts.

It's also great in alerting to packet loss (we then check against a number of ping destinations to confirm that it is genuine loss on the circuit and not to a specific dst IP that is defined in the SW-WAN & traffic shaping config in the dashboard for that MX).

[archedmeerkat]

Tough to justify getting the Insight license just for this. Seems like it wouldn't be a hard lift for Cisco to add an alert for this, but just my opinion. They already show the status in the GUI, can alert on switch ports being up/down, and can alert on the primary uplink.

Will probably either just ping it or use the api to get status periodically.

Thanks!

[MartinS]

You might find it cheaper and with greater functionality to use a Meraki Marketplace partner for this:

Cisco Meraki Marketplace | Cisco Meraki