Feature Request: View AP Reboot History

[MacElster]

We are currently having issues related to power delivery to our APs and it would assist us in finding problem APs if we could see a log  (or make an API call?) of which APs have restarted and when.  Currently, we have to contact support over phone and have them look at it for us.

[ww]

ap's are connected to a meraki switch?

your ap's connect the first few ports from the switch?

is it not possible to check the switch port status?

[MacElster]

No - they are connected to Tellabs ONTs which are unreliable for reporting on that kind of information.

[ww]

snmp an option? 

http://developers.meraki.com/post/135235222426/snmp-overview

[MacElster]

It would need to be an SNMP trap that the device sends when it reboots.  Polling wouldn't catch the reboot 99% of the time.  It is a brief blip in power that causes the device to restart.  I don't see capability for that kind of SNMP trap.   

[EClap5]

@MacElster  usually if I want to see if an AP has rebooted, I search for the event 'Ethernet port carrier change' in the event log.  Would that work for you?

[PhilipDAth]

I just tried a dashboard reboot.  @EClap5 "Ethernet port carrier change'" does not get logged for access points.  The graph also does not show any disruption to service.

I don't think there is any way to trap this using only an access point.

Yes, I think there should be a feature to log all devices "booting up".

[EClap5]

@PhilipDAththat's interesting.  I usually use the event to track when my old boss gets into Dashboard and reboots the AP that he is connected to because it's 'slow'.  Just before my first post I searched for the event and it brought up everyone one of my APs in a particular network that had firmware updated/reboot this past weekend. 

[MacElster]

The events do not show up in my history when a reboot occurs.  

[EClap5]

@MacElsterI'm not sure why they show up for me.  This is the log of the AP reboots after a 2am firmware upgrade.

[PhilipDAth]

The connectivity graph shows this.  Here is a screen shot.  I turned one of the APs off and back on again.

[MacElster]

The reboots happen so quickly that they get missed between polls, so the console graph does not show the outage.