Config backup

[rulezzz]

Hello there.

We are going to apply important changes on our Meraki MX100 (create some VLANS ) and I like to know if its possible to make a offline backup or run a rollback in case of something go wrong. Thanks.   

[BlakeRichardson]

@rulezzz Sorry but Meraki is 100% cloud based. You will just have to make a note of what changes you make. 

[ww]

you could prepare a script to undo you changes using the API. 

Meraki should make some kind of snapshot/save state where you can revert back to.

[BlakeRichardson]

@ww Sounds like the perfect idea for using the make a wish feature.

[PhilipDAth]

I haven't used it for a while, but quite some time ago I wrote this script to doing offline backups/restore.

http://www.ifm.net.nz/cookbooks/meraki-backup.html 

What I would personally do is just copy the network to a new one.  Make the changes.  If you need to rollback just move the MX to the new network, and delete the original.

[Ahoste]

Hi Philip,

I'm trying to perform the backup via the script but i'm running into a problem.

First i had to go use Pycharm since in commandline it couldn't find the meraki-sdk, so using pyCharm fixed that issue. 

Now when I run the script with all necessary modules installed i get 2 errors:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "meraki-backup.py", line 209, in <module>
orgid=get_org_id(meraki,args.orgName)
File "meraki-backup.py", line 33, in get_org_id
result = meraki.organizations.get_organizations()
File "/Users/at-mbp-52/PycharmProjects/Meraki/venv/lib/python3.7/site-packages/meraki_sdk/controllers/organizations_controller.py", line 50, in get_organizations
self.validate_response(_context)
File "/Users/at-mbp-52/PycharmProjects/Meraki/venv/lib/python3.7/site-packages/meraki_sdk/controllers/base_controller.py", line 94, in validate_response
raise APIException('HTTP response not OK.', context)
meraki_sdk.exceptions.api_exception.APIException: HTTP response not OK.

Any idea,

Already want to thank you for the script tho!

Cheers

Aaron

[PhilipDAth]

Hi @Ahoste .  This means it is failing to retrieve a list of organisations that you have access to.

Are you sure the API key you are using is correct?

Does the API key belong to an organisation admin?

[Ahoste]

Hi Philip,

thank you for the reply.
The API key in the .merkai.env file is correct, this was my first thought too and I revoked the key and even created a new one but same error.

The API key does belong to an admin account with "organization" privilige.

Cheers

[Ahoste]

@PhilipDAth 

[PhilipDAth]

The call to get the list of organisations is failing.  It's a pretty basic call that one.  It doesn't even have any parameters.

Are you sure the account being used is a Meraki organisation admin?

Are you sure API access is enable to the organisation?

[DarrenOC]

You could use the Meraki dashboard change log to reference what changes you made.

https://documentation.meraki.com/zGeneral_Administration/Organizations_and_Networks/Organization_Men...