Check out the below video from for an outline of monitoring options for Catalyst switches, benefits of Cloud Monitoring for Catalyst, and an overview of Meraki Dashboard features.   ... View more

It. is. HAPPENING! Cisco Live has begun! Make sure you spend the week showing off your Meraki Community membership by getting an exclusive badge ribbon:     Just come by, show me your community profile to prove membership, and I can bestow you the distinct 🏆 honor 🏆 of a badge ribbon!   P.S. If you haven't already, join the CLUS 2022 Meraki Lounge for updates on various events and exciting contests for both in person and virtual attendees.  ... View more

Check out May's Members of the Month!   The Rising Star The Rising Star award recognizes our top new contributor. To achieve this award, you must fulfill BOTH of the below criteria:   Joined within the past 3 months Written the most posts in that time compared to your fellow new users   This month’s Rising Star award goes to @JonP. Since March, @JonP has asked a number of great questions across several boards ranging from switching to sensors, amassing 35 posts and 17 kudos for their efforts.     @JonP    Thanks for your posts @JonP — we hope you'll continue to find value from participating in our community!   Everybody Wins This award allows us to highlight the actions of a member whose recent contributions created a win for everyone involved.   This month's award is tied to a thread about "Meraki MX-250 HA pair and Azure VPN Gateways IPSEC failover," in which @GP185 asked for input on their topology and @MyHomeNWLab took the time to walk through different scenarios and collaborate back and forth, eventually coming to a solution and eliciting the response "Thanks so much, mate! It's amazing! I really appreciate your time for setting up the scenario and sharing the results! It's brilliant!"        @GP185      @MyHomeNWLab   Thanks @GP185 for coming to the community with your topology and your receptiveness and immense positivity! And, of course, huge thanks to @MyHomeNWLab for taking the time to thoroughly work out a solution here.   The Top Four Here, we congratulate our top four contributors of the month, based on the number of kudos they’ve received and accepted solutions they’ve authored. This month these amazing members provided the community with a total of 36 solutions and received a total of 402 kudos for their efforts.   @PhilipDAth 135 kudos 13 solutions MOTM score: 161 @ww 116 kudos 11 solutions MOTM score: 138 @Brash 76 kudos 9 solutions MOTM score: 94 @KarstenI  75 kudos 3 solutions MOTM score: 81 (MOTM score = kudos received + 2*solutions authored)   Congratulations to all of our ✨stellar contributors✨  and thanks to everyone who participated on the community in May!      If you come across a truly helpful thread, or a post that’s teeming with positivity and you’d like to nominate the author for the Everybody Wins award, you can submit your nomination here. ... View more

UPDATE: this contest has ended. Huge thanks to everyone for sharing your feedback! Our three randomly selected winners are... @Wright-Fi, @GeorgeSoul, and @Aaron75.      We want to hear from you! Everyone who responds to the survey below will be entered into a drawing to win one of three Cisco Meraki crew neck sweatshirts*       The survey closes on Thursday, April 28th at 3pm Pacific. Please submit your feedback today!   Loading…   * Terms, conditions, & eligibility information ... View more

  It’s the end of our month-long Points Contest and the results are IN! During this contest, you wrote over 3,000 posts, gave each other over 3,000 kudos, and authored over 100 solutions!   Before I announce the winners, here’s a quick reminder about how the winners were selected:   Community members were ranked based on point-earning actions taken in the community: Tier 1 required 30+ points, Tier 2 required 100+ points, and Tier 3 required 200+ points An entry to each Tier gave you a chance to win that Tier’s prize Each time you progressed to a higher tier, your entry also remained in the tier(s) below. This means you were entered to win all 3 Tiers’ prizes, so it’s possible for you to reach Tier 3 and earn Tier 2’s prize Tier 1 earned you 1 entry to win the MV32 HW, Tier 2 earned you 2 entries, and Tier 3 earned you 3 entries If you are tagged below, you have been randomly drawn to win that Tier's prize so expect to hear from me to confirm your mailing address Unfortunately, if your mailing address is not located in our Eligible Countries list, we will not be able to ship to your country   And now....on to the winners!   Tier 1 Prize Winners:   @KarstenI  @Inderdeep  @BlakeRichardson  @MerryAki  @Alex67  @JenPrid  @MakaraMEAS  @Rebry  @GIdenJoe  @securingnimbu5  @Bruce  @Aaron_Wilson  @redsector  @MyHomeNWLab  @AutomationDude  @rkclimber  @1c3man  @Brash  @DHAnderson  @Hircasa  @Jenifer_Juarez  @JMorehouse  @RalphD  @CraigCummings  @RARAO_PROINF  @PaulMcG  @AdBurl  @Fabian1  @Thygesen  @dlbircher  @PippenPambu  @mweber560  @Kiki  @IanMcNamara  @Paul_Benton  @DiegoGutierrezd  @Duluthian  @WWWolf  @jrsilvius  @GelC @TheShow  @RonJackson  @Hemi-IT  @OCTOMG  @Sandra_Linares  @np  @NewToNetworking  @StephenMeyer  @Shadius  @Arman21    Tier 2 Prize Winners:   @PhilipDAth  @cmr  @ww  @MarcP  @AnilPatil  @SSAY-AXS  @Greenberet  @KRobert  @rhbirkelund  @RaphaelL  @Oscar_Espinoza  @BHC_RESORTS  @CameronS  @harmankardon  @JonP  @Bouza  @jinzing  @EJN  @MK2  @GerardoEscalona  @blkelseyjo  @DerekLegler  @Jeizzen  @mdo  @NetworkDemon    Tier 3 Prize Winners:   @DarrenOC  @alemabrahao  @CptnCrnch  @OVERKILL  @rwiesmann  @van604  @PatWruk  @Agus  @Mario0603  @WenRomero    FINALLY, announcing the proud new owner of an MV32 HW with a 5-year license, our grand prize winner is......   🏅🏆🎥 @rhbirkelund!!! 🎉 🎉 🎉   Congrats to everyone who participated! Keep an eye out for an email from me containing your prize info. Don’t forget to subscribe to our contest feed for updates on future contests! ... View more

Check out March's Members of the Month!   The Rising Star The Rising Star award recognizes our top new contributor. To achieve this award, you must fulfill BOTH of the below criteria:   Joined within the past 3 months Written the most posts in that time compared to your fellow new users   This month’s Rising Star award goes @MerryAki! Since joining mid-February, @MerryAki dove right into asking and answering questions across our many technical forums, amassing an impressive 50 posts, 22 kudos, and even their first solution!     @MerryAki   Thanks for your posts @MerryAki — we hope you'll continue to find value from participating in our community!   Everybody Wins This award allows us to highlight the actions of a member whose recent contributions created a win for everyone involved.   This month's award goes to @PaulF for taking the time to write out a very detailed response to @AnthonyI's question around "Custom MacOS App (Cisco Umbrella) Installation with Arguments/Parameters", providing a helpful list of instructions for all future readers with this issue.       @PaulF   Thanks @PaulF for your efforts!   The Top Four Here, we congratulate our top four contributors of the month, based on the number of kudos they’ve received and accepted solutions they’ve authored. This month these amazing members provided the community with a total of 28 solutions and received a total of 624 kudos for their efforts.   @PhilipDAth 183 kudos 16 solutions MOTM score: 215 @KarstenI 174 kudos 6 solutions MOTM score: 186 @DarrenOC 142 kudos 4 solutions MOTM score: 150 @cmr 125 kudos 2 solutions MOTM score: 129 (MOTM score = kudos received + 2*solutions authored)   Congratulations to all of our ✨stellar contributors✨  and thanks to everyone who participated on the community in March!      If you come across a truly helpful thread, or a post that’s teeming with positivity and you’d like to nominate the author for the Everybody Wins award, you can submit your nomination here. ... View more

  UPDATE: this contest has ended! Stay tuned for the final points round up and the announcement of our many winners next week!   We've completed week 3 of our month-long Points Contest!   If you're looking for a great way to earn more points, check out our Spring Cleaning Challenge. Submit your spring cleaning photos before Tuesday April 5th and be entered to win even more swag. It's a contest within a contest!   136 of you have qualified for at least one entry to win our swag-nificent swag prizes! If you are tagged in any of the tiers below, you’ve achieved entry into both a drawing to win your tier’s prize AND a drawing to win the Grand Prize of an MV32.   Members who reached Tier 1 by achieving 30 points: @JoDawg007  @RalphD  @JMorehouse  @Firman_S  @CraigCummings  @RARAO_PROINF  @SistemaService  @Marvin_U  @ESTUDO_MERAKI  @AndriyKrukovsk  @securingnimbu5  @mdo  @ToryDav  @BHC_RESORTS  @Cybertron  @DHAnderson  @Manjinder  @lpopejoy  @AdBurl  @MSchwark  @Russ_B  @GelC  @Dipen  @MarkAyash-1  @Nickj3234  @AxL1971  @Brash  @PhuongLeUSNRG  @PaulMcG  @JonP  @JerryBrown  @dade80vr  @NetEngJH  @MarcAEC  @Fabian1  @JDomagala  @ronnieshih75  @cshaun  @EJN  @Kiki  @Thygesen  @TomasB  @MannyRoutes  @kaschi  @JED2021  @Duluthian  @Sysad  @Jackson_J  @pistolpete13  @bkrautner  @ksridhar  @LC_IT  @RobinsonRoca  @Julian_Hussain  @RonJackson  @jacky_rnb  @KaylaEik  @OCTOMG  @molan  @Yuriy  @Anonymous  @jbutler  @daniel_abbatt  @KDedesko  @np  @AftabK  @NewToNetworking  @Miguel1  @JesperMortensen  @Dunky  @Jayt  @PippenPambu  @StephenMeyer  @DasVillain  @SENSEi-James  @Shadius  @CMorinski  @Arman21  @KitCheng    Members who reached Tier 2 by achieving 100 points: OVERKILL Alex67 CameronS Bruce Aaron_Wilson Bouza jinzing rkclimber 1c3man jcgeorge drumphile MK2 GerardoEscalona BrandonS jmorphew Philbrick Hircasa blkelseyjo Psilva Christos_Q redsector rbnielsen Jenifer_Juarez Sadat DerekLegler AutomationDude NetworkDemon Jeizzen   Members who reached Tier 3 by achieving 200 points: PhilipDAth KarstenI Inderdeep cmr UCcert alemabrahao BlakeRichardson ww CptnCrnch Make_IT_Simple SSAY-AXS AnilPatil KRobert rwiesmann van604 MarcP PatWruk Greenberet Rebry Oscar_Espinoza RaphaelL JenPrid MakaraMEAS harmankardon GIdenJoe WenRomero Mario0603 Agus   Congrats to everyone who has qualified so far. Remember, there are still 7 days left to earn points and increase your chances of winning a prize! ... View more