How many sites are we talking here? Also, the point of Meraki is to make things like this "easy", you are largely defeating the point of it with these custom solutions of yours. Performance-based routing with a vMX in AWS/Azure would give you by far the best failover experience and is very set-and-forget, SD-internet after that is not bad but pricey, or for little/no cost you could run an API script somewhere constantly monitoring the connection stats for the MXs and fail over the WAN uplinks as you please. ... View more

This is similar to asking why have 48 gigabit ports on a switch if you only have 4 gig uplinks...even if your uplink won't do the entire capacity of the switch the technical specifications and port connectivity still matters.   Also "It's just sad that a $350 device can't do a gig."  umm no, you are not anywhere in the right price range for enterprise routing hardware...Meraki's -entry level- gigabit firewall (MX75) is over $2000 USD list price last time I checked ... View more

This is almost certainly due to the sizing guide being updated to reflect the performance improvements of MX18.2 firmware, which it probably shouldn't have been yet considering 18.2 is not yet stable. Also, I wouldn't necessarily put my faith in those performance numbers quite yet even with 18.2. ... View more

vMX is probably the simplest way, and I suspect there is a way to give it a static IP even if not to the resource directly...you could also co-locate a physical MX in a datacenter, use it as VPN hub for emergencies. Third option off the top of my head would be to provision a Windows Server VM in Azure with a public IP, give it a Terminal Services license for more than 2 concurrent users, and have people RDP into that in an emergency to access the dashboard. For extra security, you could use Azure's Bastion Host feature to have people access the VM through Azure authentication in a web browser instead of RDP.   [edit] The last, and least recommended option would be, if you don't have API access ACL'd, you could use an API script to remove the dashboard IP restrictions temporarily in an emergency.   ... View more

Is this just for you, or is this for more than one person? And is it a temporary or long-term solution that you need? ... View more

Insight will give you alerts for WAN2, you could purchase one license just for this trouble site. Or, run a Python API script somewhere to generate a custom alert for this site for you. ... View more

It certainly does stand out in comparison to prior firmware, looking at about 80 access points on MR29.5.1 they have collectively used less than 3.5gb of traffic in the last day to those destinations, with the highest AP at about 150mb.  ... View more

Looking around in some of my networks and so far this appears normal for an AP on MR30.5 ... View more

Then I would get a case open with Meraki support asap, get on the phone with them and have them examine the MX logs while it is happening, they have access to significantly more information than what is presented through the dashboard. ... View more

By any chance do you have Bonjour Forwarding configured in any of those sites? ... View more

Please define what you mean by "impacted" ... View more

What I *could* see is maybe some integration of Broadsoft or Webex Cloud into the Meraki Dashboard since they are going that route for switches and APs, and maybe some of the Cisco MPP style phones getting a Meraki branding/mode that makes them super easy to deploy? It would be convenient, but I'm not sure there is enough of a business case and profit margin for Meraki to go after in this market segment anymore with the prevalence of cellphones and softphones. ... View more

It will happen when it happens, I would rather Meraki take their time with their WiFi 7 lineup and implement a stable, business-grade product than chase a PR stunt from a competitor that wants to launch pre-standard gear ... View more

That is not working the way you think it is working, shaping is applied per-flow, not as a total to the subnets you've included.   @MichelRueger fyi that unfortunately what you are asking for is not possible on Meraki at this time. ... View more

You cannot force a client to forget the password, your only option is to change the password on the SSID itself. ... View more

I don't have a demo unit next to me at this moment, but looking at the documentation I see    uplink | string The WAN uplink used to obtain the requested stats. Valid uplinks are wan1, wan2, wan3, cellular. The default is wan1.   I am suspicious that to get the MG stats from this endpoint you may have to specify that the uplink is cellular via this parameter. ... View more

Putting the inventory issue aside, as long as your configuration is correct on the switches and APs yes you should be able to use them cross-org with the exception of some potentially dashboard-specific features like Meraki Auth. ... View more

Please don't. ... View more

This is not correct, I tested it myself on MX18.1 and MR30 firmware and if you have content categories blocked on your MX but with specific URLs allowed in your GPO, those specific URLs are correctly permitted even on a wireless client. The problem is something else. ... View more

after you do    >>> import meraki   what is the output of   >>> dir(meraki)   and    >>> meraki.__version__   ? ... View more

I consider myself a big fan of additional monitoring capabilities in the Meraki platform, however I am thus far disappointed in this launch.   -Advanced Security, and especially Advanced Security + Insight not getting any ThousandEyes entitlement at all? Insight was already a hard sell because of its lack of value, but then to say go buy your own licenses or upgrade all the way to Secure SD WAN +? You are practically selling competitor products for them at this price point. -"Credits" and a limited number of tests makes no sense in the first place when I am running these tests from my own hardware, if I license my hardware for a feature I should be able to use as much of it as the platform will permit. ... View more

"Does anyone have an relevant experience."   Yes, and I would heavily recommend against consolidation here. ... View more

"The environment is So large that the throttling implemented to restrict the number of call made against the Dashboard, precludes us from making REST calls to get this state information."  There is no way this is possible unless you are not being efficient in the way you are calling the API.  "Would using WebHooks to track the uplinkStatus help us out here - would the Down / Up state be available ? " If you have Meraki Insight or the SD-WAN+ MX license, yes it would. Here is an example pair of emails I received from Insight for a WAN status change, the webhook data should be similar.   " The primary security appliance in the [REDACTED] network failed over to using uplink Internet 2 because the primary link has become unavailable. It will return to using the primary uplink when it becomes available. There has been 1 failover event detected: At 01:21 AM MST on Jan 18, the security appliance switched to using Internet 2 as its uplink. - Cisco Meraki"   and then   " The primary security appliance in the [REDACTED] network switched to using its primary uplink, configured to be uplink Internet 1, after a period in which the link was unavailable. There has been 1 failover event detected: At 01:24 AM MST on Jan 18, the security appliance switched to using Internet 1 as its uplink. - Cisco Meraki" ... View more

"access to the portal" is not necessarily "full access", this is very typical of a standardized MSP setup where you receive restricted access to the Meraki dashboard and the rest is for the MSP and you are expected to open tickets with the MSP for issues you can't resolve yourself, this is part of the service you are paying for. Also Meraki will not give you additional dashboard access, this is entirely between you and your MSP. ... View more