Meraki MX68-CW

[Dmcgannon]

I am currently offering support for a small grade school that relies heavily on network traffic for the student's education. They are on a limited budget, so I'm trying to provide the best information based on their needs. I have determined how to block certain sites and basically have a general idea on how the traffic shaping works. What I am currently trying to determine is how to pull the browsing history of the machines connected to the Meraki access point. We are on a very minimal budget so really need utilities that are low cost to no cost that can give us the browsing history of these machines as they come and go. I don't know if this is something that can be provided through Meraki or if there's some sort of low-cost free option that would give me that information. If anyone can assist, that is greatly appreciated.

[DarrenOC]

Meraki is not your answer here. Trust me. I’ve worked extensively in Edu here in the UK and Meraki doesn’t cut it for safeguarding purposes.

[DarrenOC]

A lot of schools use Smoothwall or these guys come highly recommended- https://www.securly.com/filter

[GreenMan]

For an all-Cisco solution incorporating MX, you might want to consider pairing it with Umbrella DNS protection but, as per your mention of cost;   Umbrella is an extra and Advanced Security licensing the same (though I can't imagine, in that environment, you'd really want the basic Enterprise MX license).

https://documentation.meraki.com/General_Administration/Cross-Platform_Content/Manually_Integrating_...

https://docs.umbrella.com/deployment-umbrella/docs/the-activity-search-report

[DarrenOC]

Agree, but cost prohibitive when compared to other solutions on the market. I’ve tried this approach on a number of occasions and the other solutions win time after time.