Meraki

AutomationDude · ‎Jun 16 2022

Hey guys, My team has created a new solution for managing licenses across many Meraki organisations. The tool centralizes all the license and device data from all your dashboards into one. For US customers we've even added the ability to place new license orders directly using the data that is drawn from the API. Please do check it out here. Any feedback/ideas would be highly appreciated!

AutomationDude · ‎Jun 16 2022

Dark mode would be pretty nice

AutomationDude · ‎Jun 15 2022

Hey @KRobert, you're welcome! I've never written anything for exactly what you described but did have this video that creates new networks from a csv file: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jbb3sxcxQ0A&t=312s&ab_channel=BoundlessDigital I'm guessing you were having some trouble working with variables that were read from the csv so this should hopefully give you some insights that move you in the right direction. Best of luck!

AutomationDude · ‎Jun 14 2022

Hello good sir, I recorded a video that explains exactly how to do this for the API course I made. Here's the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfTtEUotXCI&t=125s&ab_channel=BoundlessDigital

AutomationDude · ‎Jun 14 2022

Yeah Ben, doesn't seem like they're sharing status in the API. I wonder if you could simply compare for each device type if it's in a certain range, putting in conditionals to categorise them as Good, Warning or Critical. Not ideal but I don't see another way. Maybe just putting all that info in a CSV and then filtering would be even easier. Same idea though.

AutomationDude · ‎Jun 9 2022

Hi @Kiki , the post above is the truth. I can however sympathise with you. Considering what you shared from the documentation, it doesn't seem very clear.

AutomationDude · ‎Jun 7 2022

Hey @lawrie, the license is what keeps the devices running. If you want the clients to be able to connect, you will need an active license. Your configurations on the dashboard will not be lost however. Meraki will give you a 30 day grace period after the license expires, after which everything will stop working. Get new licenses if you'd like to keep things running. I believe you can acquire them easily from an online store like Rhino Networks.

AutomationDude · ‎May 31 2022

Hey Tiro, There are scripts for updating SSIDs as shared by Roman. I've also made a video tutorial if you want to see. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=588QxqAWKP4&t=84s If you talk about automating this update though, that will require hosting the script on something like AWS and makes things a bit more complicated.

AutomationDude · ‎May 31 2022

What are you looking to do with the temporary API users? Curious to learn more. Don't think Meraki will implement this soon as it would require a complete overhaul of the current API structure. Is having the users log on to the dashboard one time really such a big problem?

AutomationDude · ‎May 26 2022

Hey man sorry to be useless but this definitely isn't a Meraki library problem and seems to be related to Pyinstaller. I'd dig into their docs or post this on stackoverflow.

AutomationDude · ‎May 11 2022

You are right to think something isn't adding up here. If you are able to draw in the admins then the access type is correct and shouldn't matter. What are you using to access the API? For example with python you can create a loop as an alternative quick fix and use the following call: https://developer.cisco.com/meraki/api-v1/#!get-network-devices How many devices do you have in your organization? It is possible that with many devices you need to employ pagination. Are you using v0 of the API? This could also be the root of the problem.

AutomationDude · ‎May 5 2022

Hello, I'm looking to unbind hundreds of networks from a template for a client. Meraki has recently introduced functionality to be able to retain configurations for a network after you unbind. This is obviously great but it seems like this option isn't available when unbinding using the API. I tried unbinding a network with the API and it automatically assumes I don't want to keep the configs. Would it be possible to add a "keep config" attribute? This would really make the endpoint much more useful Thoughts/Suggestions on any other way I can go about this would be appreciated

AutomationDude · ‎Apr 19 2022

Hello all, If I am running my Meraki devices on a critical firmware version, will there ever be a day when that upgrade is forced? Will there ever come a point where the network goes down because the firmware is no longer supported? Will Meraki automatically push an upgrade in that scenario? What I mean to ask is, could I theoretically run old firmware forever? I'm well aware this is really bad practice but it is for a specific use case. Thank you

AutomationDude · ‎Apr 19 2022

This API call should definitely return the firmware version if there is an active firmware running on the dashboard. I'd guess its a problem exclusive to the sensors. I know some of the API integrations with sensors are relatively new so maybe they just missed something.

AutomationDude · ‎Apr 19 2022

Hey Jim, please check this out this course I made. I think it should have everything you need: https://go.boundlessdigital.com/meraki-api-with-python-course/registration

AutomationDude · ‎Apr 11 2022

Hey Jim, This is a very basic python problem and should be easily solvable. I would recommend searching on youtube and getting a slightly better understanding of if/then statements. My guess is that the API returns has a very different response for when the port is online or offline. You can use that response to determine whether the port is online and then decide if you want to execute that part of the code or proceed to port 10. As an example, you can check if the API includes a certain string: https://flexiple.com/python-string-contains For future reference, its best to share a part of your code as this helps us understand and assist you a lot quicker 😉 Good luck!

AutomationDude · ‎Apr 4 2022

@Inderdeep @KarstenI I guess you guys are still experiencing winter wherever you are 😁

AutomationDude · ‎Apr 4 2022

Does the parts shortage justify the increase for licenses though?

AutomationDude · ‎Apr 4 2022

I just want the cap if I'm being honest

AutomationDude · ‎Mar 14 2022

Good luck everybody! Looks like we can all just post here to farm kudos 😁

AutomationDude · ‎Mar 10 2022

Hello There is no limit that I know of. Even if there is I'm sure its a lot more than 200 so go ahead 🙂

AutomationDude · ‎Feb 21 2022

Hey @DevK , Network level endpoints only work for networks and org level endpoints only work for orgs. Unfortunately there isn't a direct way to get what you're looking for but fortunately, there is a relatively simple way. It's called loops. Im not sure if loops are possible in Postman but you should definitely look into using Python if aren't already. Here's the concept I'm talking about: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94UHCEmprCY Here's a free course I made specifically for Meraki APIs that includes examples of this: https://go.boundlessdigital.com/meraki-api-with-python-course/registration

AutomationDude · ‎Feb 18 2022

Meraki is aware of this and the API will return an error if you try to make a POST/PUT call into an organization where you don't have full access.

AutomationDude · ‎Feb 15 2022

I made a course for API newbies if you wanna check it out: https://go.boundlessdigital.com/meraki-api-with-python-course/registration

AutomationDude · ‎Feb 10 2022

Hmm you might be right, I came across a similar use case a long time ago and there was something about being able to access templates via network calls. Might be confusing two things though, will test on my side when I have time and report back

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