Alert notification with sensor location

[kerplunk34]

I have alert profiles on my MT sensors so I'll get emailed when one of them starts alerting. I was wondering if instead of getting an email just saying that sensor is alerting, is there a way to attach the location of the sensor in that email too? I put all of the sensors in the map/floorplan feature, but I was hoping there's a way to just have that be available in the alert email rather than having to go into the Meraki dashboard and look at the location of the sensor. So far I haven't been able to find anything that would let me accomplish this.

[PhilipDAth]

I don't know the answer.

I know of a lot of other questions like this Meraki won't put the information into an email as it is not considered secure.

I haven't tried, but perhaps the webhook alert will disclose more information.  You could set this up with something like Microsoft Teams, or Pager Duty.

https://meraki.cisco.com/blog/2018/10/real-time-alerting-with-webhooks/ 

https://www.pagerduty.com/ 

[Larry_Woods]

As of today, we do not have a way to attach the location of the sensor along with map/floorplan feature into email.  I would use the 'make a wish' button as Cisco Meraki Employees do read those.  For now, what @PhilipDAth is suggesting is probably your best path using something like webhooks and a variety of APIs to obtain the information and format the alert as you see fit.  It would take some custom work so you are aware.

[cmr]

We just name the sensor with a pretty precise location, (patch rack A, Birmingham etc.) is there a reason you can't do that?

[kerplunk34]

We could do that, it's just that some of them are kind of clustered in one area and we don't have a system for denoting their exact location. We could probably make a system though. Regardless, thanks for your input!

[BlakeRichardson]

Our sensors are all named as the location they are in. If we have multiple sensors then the sensor type is also in the name.