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MRCUR · ‎08-22-2017

Stacks dropping their uplink (and then doing absurd things afterwards) is a well known issue on the MS team from what I've gathered. The uplink being dropped is specifically called out as a bug fix beginning with firmware version 9.27 which was just released.

MRCUR · ‎08-22-2017

What firmware version are you using? The current stable MX firmware version is quite old at this point and seems to have plenty of bugs, especially with advanced L7 features & advanced security features.

MRCUR · ‎08-22-2017

I have two MX600's in production in warm spare mode. These are used for firewall/NAT for ~20,000 users/10,000 devices. In total the upstream bandwidth is 4Gbps. We also do two site-to-site VPN tunnels, one is Meraki and the other is an ASA. Plenty of client VPN connections too without and problems. If you want to do a real world speedtest through my MXen, here you go: readingsd.speedtest.net

MRCUR · ‎08-21-2017

@Welles Nope, no tags in use for the SSID that disappeared.

MRCUR · ‎08-21-2017

@tmburke I don't believe the issue I encountered with MR33's is currently noted as a known issue. I was told that it is noted internally as a known issue but was unable to find it publicly stated on any of the currently available firmware versions.

MRCUR · ‎08-21-2017

For those of you who work with dedicated sales reps & engineers, I highly recommend working to a great relationship with those folks. I am not a Cisco partner so am not eligible for the partner specific certs/programs, but over the last few years have gotten the chance to speak directly with a number of the product managers, marketing folks, etc. and participate in some great betas. This didn't happen overnight, but if you talk to the right people you can get pretty great access to Meraki.

MRCUR · ‎08-21-2017

I have ~1,000 MR42/52's on 25.3 and it's working quite well. I moved a single network of MR33's to 25.5 and ran into a bug that made SSID's stop broadcasting...

MRCUR · ‎08-21-2017

Thanks to @CarolineS for getting this off the ground. Very excited for the future of the community.

MRCUR · ‎08-16-2017

I’m confused... are you saying MAC like a MAC address or Apple devices? I certainly haven’t seen any specific Mac tracking issues when using MAC client tracking in a network. What kind of issues have you seen?

MRCUR · ‎08-16-2017

@bholmes12 Yeah, that’s a Meraki quirk to stacking. I believe it’s because each switch runs its own management stack for Dashboard connectivity. I use DHCP now for my MS management VLAN’s which really cuts down on the overhead of the stacking IP needs. I know it’s a very different way of thinking coming from traditional switch management, but it’s worked really well for me.

MRCUR · ‎08-16-2017

This would be using 802.1X auth against your own RADIUS server.

MRCUR · ‎08-15-2017

@BHC_RESORTS We use the "auto" setting for 5GHz channel width. I'd say it's perhaps about 1/3rd of AP's that run at 80MHz after this change. This is a highly dense AP environment (one AP per room) in a dense urban environment, so it doesn't surprise me that many of the AP's are not running at 80MHz.

MRCUR · ‎08-15-2017

@Mr_IT_Guy I absolutely agree that AirWatch is a much more advanced MDM platform than SM, but as you see it comes at a (large) cost. But if you want to do serious Mac MDM based management, AirWatch is a great path to go down.

MRCUR · ‎08-15-2017

@Mr_IT_Guy Along the same lines - iperf built into the MXen would be really useful, especially since Support sometimes requests iperf tests to be run.

MRCUR · ‎08-15-2017

Thanks @TheMerakiGuy!

MRCUR · ‎08-15-2017

@NFL0NR Are you talking about MAC filtering as a way to limit network access, or "Client tracking" in MX networks? For the latter, I always go with MAC tracking if the topology allows for it (no L3 boundaries between the MX and clients). Otherwise IP tracking is the way to go.

MRCUR · ‎08-15-2017

Given the way Meraki products are administered, I certainly get the argument for one big cert. The problem with that (as I think anyone with CMNO/CMNA would know) is that it doesn't allow for a ton of depth to the cert. @BradB I'd be very interested in certs for each product line that go into much more depth than CMNO did. I did really like the time and format of CMNO, so shooting for that with these other certs would be great. Given the simplicity of even the most complex deployments, I don't think this would be impossible. Self paced/self administered would be really, really nice as well.

MRCUR · ‎08-15-2017

How do I configure alerts in a Meraki network? Is there a way to email different people for different events?

MRCUR · ‎08-15-2017

@NFL0NR Yep, they're on the latest beta firmware. Also was happening on the previous versions. I'm fairly confident it's a hardware issue at this point.

MRCUR · ‎08-14-2017

Wow - I've rarely had issues with inaccurate client types. Most of my networks with MXen are run as IP tracking so I expect the device types to be wrong or blank, but for those where I have a full stack I haven't noticed these things. Dell iPod is pretty great though.

MRCUR · ‎08-14-2017

I'd really like SAML auth to support the various levels of MV access (live footage only, live + recordings, etc.). SAML is really nice for getting Guest Ambassadors access using their G Suite credentials, but unfortunately it's pretty useless for the MV right now.

MRCUR · ‎08-14-2017

@bholmes12 Ah yes, I didn't even think of that. Much like we say "It's always DNS", perhaps for MS issues we should say "It's always the MGMT VLAN". If anyone from the MS team is reading this, I'd say in general that the switches don't respond very well to not being in their defined management VLAN. Sometimes I just need to get a switch online in the "wrong" VLAN - I just wish they would behave a bit better when this happens.

MRCUR · ‎08-10-2017

If the switch is rebooting and there isn't anything obvious in the event log, I'd suggest contacting Support. They have access to a much more robust event log that will likely indicate why the switch is really rebooting.

MRCUR · ‎08-10-2017

I recently noticed that two MV21's I installed last year (right at initial MV launch) no longer have green LED status lights. On one of the units, it seems like the LED simply doesn't work anymore. On the other, the LED is a very dim amber color. Changing the LED status light setting in Dashboard doesn't do anything. Rebooting, resetting, etc. doesn't do anything. Support thinks it's probably a hardware issue at this point - has anyone else seen this before I go replace the cameras?

MRCUR · ‎08-10-2017

This is amazing. The chef picture really takes the cake on the absurdity of the whole thing.

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