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AutomationDude · ‎09-24-2021

I hear what you're saying @PhilipDAth, but the daily course material is shared by email so asking this data and permission is necessary!

AutomationDude · ‎09-23-2021

Hello friends, I have created a free course to learn How to use the Meraki APIs. We try to help engineers automate things on Meraki and after many conversations I saw there is quite a knowledge gap in this area. People want to start scripting but often have no idea where to begin, especially when they don't have a background in computer science. This course starts from the absolute basics and walks you through everything you need to know if you want to leverage the APIs. At the end of the course we automate the provisioning of networks, but I'd love to hear what else you guys would like to accomplish with the APIs so I can make more tutorials 🙂

AutomationDude · ‎09-13-2021

Not sure if this has latency and packet loss specifically but it seems to have most tools in regards to creating reports on Google Sheets. Definitely worth a look: https://workspace.google.com/marketplace/app/meraki_tools/11340767263

AutomationDude · ‎09-13-2021

Hey Enrico, this is a strange problem indeed.. The fact that you cannot view the manually created networks within your dashboard is weird and shouldn't have to do anything with the APIs. It's possible you didn't get any error on your function because you have entered some kind of infinite loop, which may explain why the Get call doesn't seem to work either. You can try to wait this out but maybe a better strategy would be the disable and then re-enable API access on your org. I still don't get why you can't see networks within your dashboard. Would reach out to support if the problem persists.

AutomationDude · ‎09-13-2021

I hear you! Was messing about with the firmware update call and one of the firmware release types was "candidate", which I'm not really clear about. They definitely need to tell us all the possible return values for a call and what they mean. I believe for the device status call online and offline are the only two possibilites. I was able to find this for you: https://documentation.meraki.com/MX/Monitoring_and_Reporting/Appliance_Status/MX_Uplink_Settings If you look at the Uplink Status section you should be able to find the possible states. I completely agree with you though!

AutomationDude · ‎09-13-2021

What is the reason for using templates here? Wouldn't you just be able to accomplish this if you didn't use templates..

AutomationDude · ‎09-07-2021

Hi Kenneth, below is some code I wrote for getting all information about each network within a single org and putting that in a csv. dashboard = meraki.DashboardAPI(key) orgs = dashboard.organizations.getOrganizations() org_id = 'xxx' response = dashboard.organizations.getOrganizationNetworks(org_id) # You should create a loop around this to cycle through every org (You'll need to read in the next org_id each time). You can do response.extend() to keep adding the info to the response variable. Then you can write all that info to a csv with the code below: with open('networks.csv', 'w') as new_file: csv_writer = csv.DictWriter(new_file, response[0].keys()) csv_writer.writeheader() csv_writer.writerows(response) Hope this helps, I'm sorry it isn't exactly what you were looking for. Why do you need all those network IDs anyway?

AutomationDude · ‎09-02-2021

Congrats to everybody who is a part of this community

AutomationDude · ‎08-05-2021

Hello, I don't think there is a way to do this natively within Meraki, but you can write a python script with the API call shared above to get and then write that information to a CSV file. Hope this helps!

AutomationDude · ‎08-05-2021

Hi Nathan, I wouldn't worry about this as I'm sure you won't be able to cross the limit if there is one, and even if there is I would guess you can call Meraki support to disable it for you. How many admins do you intend to have?

AutomationDude · ‎07-13-2021

Hello there, Perhaps this could also be helpful: https://developer.cisco.com/meraki/api-v1/#!get-network-network-health-channel-utilization I don't know exactly what your use case is or if this would even work, but if there was a way to get the clients on each device I wonder if some kind of script could be written to relate all the information from these API calls and get you the info you are looking for. It's just an idea, I'll leave you to think more deeply about it. Good luck!

AutomationDude · ‎07-09-2021

Hi Aidan, Don't worry, this is normal expected behaviour from the API as there is a limit of 1000 for entries returned. This has been discussed a few times on the community before so here are some links for you to gain a better understanding and find a solution: https://community.meraki.com/t5/Developers-APIs/Limited-search/m-p/102863 https://community.meraki.com/t5/Developers-APIs/How-can-I-specify-a-time-range-using-GET-networks-networkId/m-p/60615 https://community.meraki.com/t5/Developers-APIs/Retrieving-more-than-2-pages-of-1000-clients-from-GET-networks/m-p/61495 Essentially, you will need to make a 2nd and 3rd API call and define a new starting point in order to obtain all of the networks. Hope this helps!

AutomationDude · ‎07-08-2021

Haven't personally used this API endpoint but after taking a look at it i'm going to have to say no. There doesn't seem to be a way to cancel this specific field within Meraki as you are trying so I do not think the API would be able to comprehend what you are trying to do. I'm assuming if you make the API call with the field empty it will just do nothing, so from my understanding, the answer to your question is no.

AutomationDude · ‎07-06-2021

Hello hcoq, Nice method you got there! I believe you're running into an error here because the call is dashboard.organizations instead of dashboard.networks (Naturally because we are creating this network at the org level). Here's a link to the API endpoint: https://developer.cisco.com/meraki/api-v1/#!create-organization-network I may be getting ahead of myself here, but you may run into further errors because you seem to be inputting net_type and tags as strings but the expected input for this is a list. You can use the split() method to turn a string to a list. Hope this helps, everything else looks great!

AutomationDude · ‎05-20-2021

I will add a 3rd layer of agreement here. The API call only works for per device licensing. How annoying is that considering the amount of partners that find license management frustrating and could be aided by the ability to obtain all their coterm licenses.

AutomationDude · ‎05-18-2021

Hello! These are not the same things. if you could clarify what you're trying to do then we would be able to answer your question a lot better! The hotspot functionality is for service providers to streamline the process of bringing client devices onto the network. Check out this link to understand Passpoint The Splash page functionality is for controlling the authentication method to your WiFi. A splash page is what the user sees when they try to enter your network (You typically see this in hotels and airports) Hope this helps! Feel free to elaborate on what you're trying to achieve and we might be able to help you more 🙂

AutomationDude · ‎05-11-2021

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news Kenneth but I do not believe there is an easy fix. Scripting is the only way. Good thing being that once you write the script you'll basically have created the org template 🙂

AutomationDude · ‎04-28-2021

Hey @GiovanniA, My company does this regularly and we have a platform built out where you can do this! Here's a link that explains further: https://www.boundlessdigital.com/network-management/meraki-automation/provisioning/ Looking forward to hearing from you 🙂

AutomationDude · ‎04-22-2021

Hey Alain, Welcome to the community. I work at a French company too and recently took the ECMS1. Plan to take the ECMS2 soon as well! Feel free to send me a message if you want to discuss anything 🙂

AutomationDude · ‎04-13-2021

Welcome aboard mate 🙂 Better late than never, with your breadth of expertise I'm sure you'll be a pro in no time

AutomationDude · ‎04-08-2021

I understand your problem, but you are unfortunately in a paradox 😔 You're trying to tell your orgs to do something with the APIs, but how could this ever be possible when the APIs aren't enabled? Now it would be theoretically awesome if there was one such API touchpoint that acted as kind of gate for the other touchpoints, but the security risk would be too immense for this to ever happen and it also probably wouldn't make sense 😄 I'm afraid you'll have to do this one thing the old school way!

AutomationDude · ‎04-08-2021

Thank you everyone, next step is making it to the top 4! 😈

AutomationDude · ‎04-01-2021

Hey Freddy, did you check out this article? https://documentation.meraki.com/MR/Encryption_and_Authentication/Sponsored_Guest Goes into detail about the sponsored access. Also check out this post as it might be helpful: https://community.meraki.com/t5/Wireless-LAN/Sponsored-Guest-returning-users-auth-problem/td-p/56013 If it isn't a returning user problem then it would make sense to open a support ticket

AutomationDude · ‎04-01-2021

Prob a syntax error ... would be pretty hard to debug without running the actual code. I can't seem to spot what's wrong with what you've shared though

AutomationDude · ‎04-01-2021

Hey Simon, I have been a fan of your podcast ever since I started working with Meraki and its been enormously helpful by enabling me to understand everything about the Meraki ecosystem. Your podcast was one of the things that inspired me to start a room on clubhouse called the The Future of Networking, and so this episode was particularly interesting as it deals with the same field! I would love for you to listen in this coming Wednesday https://www.joinclubhouse.com/event/mW6Jqwda It would really be a pleasure of mine to host you some time in the future! 😁

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