Is there a way to have Meraki send a notification when someone connects to our MR WAP?

[lchan]

Is there a way to have Meraki send a notification when someone connects to our MR WAP?

I couldnt find anything regarding this matter in the alerts and notifications. Thanks!

[rhbirkelund]

Why would you like to receive a notification every time a client connects to an AP?

Depending on the client, over the course of a day, a client would reassociate and reauthenticate multiple times. Especially for an iPhone. And then multiply that up, with the number of clients trying to associate.

[lchan]

We're trying to figure out foot traffic from our users at our various offices. Trying to send these alerts to a big data collector and run reports from there.

[Nash]

Just adding another voice agreeing that what you actually want is the scanning API. "Where are the people and when" is a really common question to ask, which is why Meraki made the scanning API.

[BrechtSchamp · Accepted solution]

With MX you can generate alerts for specific users connecting to the network. But I don't think that is what you're looking for.

There's a couple of ways you could go about your challenge:

1. You could create something by exporting the "Wireless events" event log to Syslog and have the Syslog servers generate alerts based on those.
2. Or you could leverage the scanning API:
   https://developer.cisco.com/meraki/scanning-api/#!introduction

[CptnCrnch]

First of all I thought this could be realized by using Meraki Webhooks, but @BrechtSchamp is correct: Syslog or Scanning API are the way to go.

[lchan]

Awesome! Will look into the scanning API. Thanks everyone!