Meraki teamplates

[MThomas90]

Hi All,

I wanted some advise regarding templates within meraki cloud dashboard. As it stands in my environment we have a number of access points spread over 8 different locations which are currently under the same configuration Template, which means if i perform an upgrade it will will upgrade ever single AP. I wanted to see if this is best practice or would it make sense to create a configuration template for each of the locations so I can stagger the AP firmware upgrades to specific locations ? or is there a way to target only specifc APS in a template to upgrade?

Thank you for your input

MT

[alemabrahao]

It will depend on the need of each one, that is, the rule has no right or wrong. In some cases, some people choose to have a single template to facilitate network management. In another, people choose to have a template for each location, but this is usually when you have some particularity for each location.

And is not possible to upgrade a specific AP on the template.

[Ryan_Miles]

The benefit of a template is a single configuration & administration of multiple networks (sites). Doing a template per site would provide no benefit.

[PhilipDAth · Accepted solution]

At that scale, I would tend to just upgrade all the APs at once.

If you are a bit nervous, and you have a lab, duplicate the current template, bind your lab network to it, and then upgrade that one first.