Cisco Catalyst 9400 on Meraki Dashboard

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Matt_Collins
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Cisco Catalyst 9400 on Meraki Dashboard

Hi All,

 

Does anybody out there in Meraki world have any information on when we may get the 9400 on the Meraki dashboard, I have a client who has over 400 Meraki Access Switches, but are currently refreshing all their Core Catalyst 4500's to Catalyst 9400's (x15) and would like the option to include them in the monitoring, but there is no time lines or any information as to when (or if) this may happen.

 

Many thanks in advance

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KarstenI
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Family-Pizza ...

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DarrenOC
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@GreenMan , @Ryan_Miles 

 

Gents - any insider news on this one?

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KarstenI
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I would not wait for it. Initially, there was a statement that adding modular switches is much more complicated than individual/stacked switches. With that, I would not expect to see support for 9400/9600 anytime soon.

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Matt_Collins
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That was my thinking as there had been no rumours  going about that it was a way off,  it would of been a nice to have if it was on the radar.

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@Matt_Collins wrote:

it would of been a nice to have if it was on the radar.


Definitely!

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GreenMan
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I guess the answer to this depends on "which radar are we using"?

It's certainly on the long range radar, but there's no detail, at this time, as to when it'll be close enough to drop any bombs.  In particular note that Meraki switches are all natively "pizza boxes" (no chassis equivalent), so this adds quite a significant workload to a related project.

DarrenOC
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“Pizza Boxes” - that’s a new one for me 🤣

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KarstenI
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I only knew this term for 1RU servers ...

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DarrenOC
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How big are your pizzas?!?

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KarstenI
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Family-Pizza ...

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DarrenOC
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🤣😂 even funnier that’s the accepted solution.  

good luck to whoever Google’s this one in the future

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KarstenI
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I thought the same. But hey, the Meraki community is not only for help, but also for some laughs!

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Matt_Collins
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Guess I could start a pizza/meraki question   Does Pineapple go on a Pizza, or Do 3rd Party SFP's belong in a Meraki Switch.

DarrenOC
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Not supported @Matt_Collins  but please “Make a wish”

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KarstenI
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Big NO and a little yes!

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GreenMan
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Do I detect a certain degree of sarcasm here @KarstenI ,  @DarrenOC ?   🙂

I'd love to be able to give you something more definitive, but I'm sure you'll understand that product development is complicated; customers ask for many new things, these to be blended with things we want to add / change ourselves and the fact they all need to work together, without breaking anything else.   The alternative is we suggest a timescale which then struggles to be met.  What I would say is it's definitely not a little Yes - strategically our direction would be to be capable of cloud monitoring (and ultimately managing) any strategic hardware product - but it's complicated.  What I can also say is that I did check with product line today on this specific, I'm not just repeating something I heard months ago.   Rather than 'making a wish' (or 'Giving your feedback' as it now is) - I'd recommend contacting your specific Meraki account team with your specific details & drivers and they can add your weight behind the feature enhancement request.

KarstenI
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Sarcasm? Never ever! 🙂

And there are many things I wish for, but this one I would really consider "nice" instead of "important" as I assume that most Meraki customers are really fine with non-chassis switches.

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@GreenMan , tis but the lowest form of wit 😉

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GreenMan
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Which is why I'm often to be found deploying it too!   🤣

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