Deploying Vmx with HA on AWS

Edu_Chico
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Deploying Vmx with HA on AWS

Helloa,

i want to deploy a Meraki solution in high availability on AWS, and we cannot find the correct configuration on AWS and the Meraki console. We have followed these URLs without satisfactory results:

https://aws.amazon.com/es/quickstart/architecture/cisco-meraki-vmx/

https://aws-quickstart.github.io/quickstart-cisco-meraki-sd-wan-vmx/

https://fwd.aws/6aN9v? <-- CloudFormation

 

We have 6 accounts, each with its own VPC, all connected with a Transit Gateway (1). The ranges used are within the supernet 10.111.0.0/18.

 

Using the CloudFormation from the link, we created a new VPC with the address 10.111.52.0/24. We divided this VPC into 4 subnets /26, 2 public where we deployed the Merakis, and 2 private. This VPC has a Transit Gateway (2).

 

At the moment we are only testing with the network 10.111.52.0/24. When the Merakis are working, we want to do a peering between Transit Gateway (1) and Transit Gateway (2). In the route table of Transit Gateway (1), we want to put that all the 10.0.0.0/8 traffic goes to Transit Gateway (2) and this sends it through the VPN via the Merakis.

 

In the Meraki console, we have created 2 sites. We configured both sites as a Site-to-site VPN of the Hub type. In Local Networks, we configured the network 10.111.52.0/24. Is this configuration correct?

 

We have deployed the CloudFormation, https://fwd.aws/6aN9v?, and we have a question about the "Meraki organization API key". Does it need write permissions, or is read-only sufficient? In the logs of the lambda "vMXTransitGatewayRTLambd" created by the CloudFormation, we see the following error:

 

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[ERROR]              2024-06-10T15:24:55.943Z                        Exception: Meraki API key needs to be defined

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "/var/task/lambda_function.py", line 240, in main

    update_rt()

  File "/var/task/lambda_function.py", line 195, in update_rt

    meraki_dashboard = meraki.DashboardAPI(meraki_api_key, suppress_logging=True)

                       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

  File "/var/task/meraki/__init__.py", line 68, in __init__

    raise APIKeyError()

meraki.exceptions.APIKeyError: Meraki API key needs to be defined

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CarolineS
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Hi @Edu_Chico! I saw you tried to post this a few times - apologies that our spam detector was being over-zealous. I’ve restored just one of your posts - this one!

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PhilipDAth
Kind of a big deal
Kind of a big deal

It is highly probable it needs read/write access.  Having said that, the error message above is saying that the API key was not configured in the Lambda environment.

 

 

 

Edu_Chico
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Hello @PhilipDAth 

 

Regarding the Meraki configuration, it is enough to announce the same ads from both networks, configure it as a HUB and little else... or I need something additional that I am not doing in the Meraki dashboard. Documentation of the Meraki Dashboard part is very little and I don't know if there is anything else missing to configure.
thank you very much for your help

PhilipDAth
Kind of a big deal
Kind of a big deal

Correct, you just need to announce the same networks from both hubs.

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