Do you enable your SNMP?

[VRB]

Do you enable your SNMP to use a separate monitoring app for MR access points?

[alemabrahao]

It depends on the need, in some cases yes, in others no. But in my opinion, the alerts sent by the dashboard are enough.

[BaskaranGanesan]

If you have more than 25 APs, it is recommended that you enable SNMP. I have enabled SNMP on our networking monitoring tool so that we can view all SNMP traps and monitor the client.  

[VRB]

What info do you look for that is not seen in the dashboard? We have over 1,000 APs on our campus, and the dashboard is sufficient for me.

[PhilipDAth]

99% of the time, no.  You'll get better monitoring out of the Dashboard.

[VRB]

Yes, same. Just want to see what others are doing and what more info do they need that is not in the dashboard. We also have iMaster NCE.

[JonoM]

I would say the main benefit you will find with SNMP monitoring is if you are already using an external tool for monitoring all your other network devices. For example, if you have Meraki, Cisco IOS, and some other non-Cisco vendors, you could in theory monitor all of them from a single monitoring system using SNMP.

In a previous job, we used something like PRTG with SNMP to create a single screen to watch all the network devices across multiple vendors. If something popped up red, we immediately knew if it was Meraki and could then jump onto the Meraki dashboard for more detailed diagnostics.

In short, if you have a Meraki-only environment, enabling SNMP isn't necessary (though it could be a nice lab if you want to learn more about the protocol). If you are using multiple vendors in your network and want to create a single source of monitoring , SNMP will help to enable that.

[NicolasRen]

Hey

Here only using dashboard graphs and alerts on most of orgs. Having Centreon for bigger and mixed deployments.

[MartinLL]

In addition to the above comments i also enable snmp to enable ISE SNMP Querry probes.

[MinseK]

if you are mainly looking at push notification capabilities for any failure, new Alert hub offers notification via Webhook or Email across 167 different alert types that can be configured all networks across your organization.

Apart from it, you can also configure syslog server at the network level to receive the syslog notification