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Yep, I see the diamonds/square icon on some of my topologies that have devices with CDP/LLDP announcing what they are. What is the make/model/firmware of the non-Meraki gear?

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I don’t think you can, but your best chance is to make sure they have CDP and LLDP enabled and allowed.

BrandonS · ‎06-23-2021

I have a possible solution. Purchase a domain for this specific purpose that has only one email address.

BrandonS · ‎06-17-2021

@BlakeRichardson Ha. This particular building is troublesome as it is federal government and needs security and escorts and can take 30 minutes from arrival just to get inside a room 😉

BrandonS · ‎06-17-2021

I think the floorpans only work with MRs? Here is a snip of one building switch names I used that has multiple rooms per floor with switches. Then on each switch page I put the actual room # in the notes. The room number can also be found on a floor plan and on the actual door. This was all installed 5 or so years ago so it is super helpful for a tech to find a switch without wandering through halls and trying various closets, etc 🙂

BrandonS · ‎06-17-2021

With Meraki I never considered it much since they are already categorized by organization > network and there are places for the physical address with map, notes and even mounting photo. That said, I sometimes use floor, room, switch # to match labels physically printed on them. 4th Floor IDF Switch 1, 4th Floor IDF Switch 2, etc.

BrandonS · ‎06-17-2021

Something is not right. When I enabled 2fa I still had the same MSP view with multiple organizations. I would contact support for help and did you turn it off and get MSP view back?

BrandonS · ‎06-16-2021

News to me, but apparently documented since February: https://documentation.meraki.com/MR/Other_Topics/Hotspot_2.0

BrandonS · ‎06-15-2021

I can't say I really know for sure, but I doubt it would affect performance noticeably. I would be more concerned about all the trouble tickets you might field from "broken" web pages. Go to Facebook or espn sometime and see how many requests and countries traffic starts flowing from and to with ads and trackers, but also things that make sites functional. You may be surprised.

BrandonS · ‎06-15-2021

Do you have make/model/firmware version of cable tester? How do you know it was the switch and not a bad cable or something else between Meraki port and your test set? I have been a licensed cable contractor for over 20 years and have always checked for continuity before sending a tone. Sure, modern equipment should not hurt anything in either direction typically, but putting tone on a closed circuit is not a good practice and this may be one example why. If you are sending tone it implies you are not sure where exactly the cable terminate so it is always best to check continuity first and then decide if you want to risk harming some equipment on the other end or blowing a fuse/breaker somewhere.

BrandonS · ‎06-11-2021

You have seen this? https://documentation.meraki.com/MX/Other_Topics/Deploying_Highly_Available_vMX_in_Azure

BrandonS · ‎06-09-2021

I saw a Cisco Partner email stating tomorrow at 9:30am Pacific there would be some new Meraki products announced among other Cisco things. Maybe officially announced with pricing then? EDIT: Here is a link that should work with partner level login: https://transform.cisco.com/ciscopartnerlaunchexperience

BrandonS · ‎06-02-2021

I don't think you stated the problem. Can't you just plug this Eero in to an active port and use it with it's features? Unless you specifically know of some application that will choke I think it would be quite rare to have a problem. Half the world does double NAT behind their service provider's modem and it is very rarely an issue.

BrandonS · ‎06-02-2021

Best I can tell you can bookmark the page with URL ending like /organization/overview#t=network But the tick box to hide the table will revert. Depending on what browser you use and prefer there are some hacks via extensions, etc. that can do tricks like this, I think. I am not intimately familiar with them, but know they exist. Try searching for "Greasemonkey Firefox" to see what I am referring to.

BrandonS · ‎06-02-2021

And are you a Cisco reseller and do you work in the CCW tool? If so, you can order NFR (not for resale) gear for an incredibly low price to have some lab gear and play around with if you like. You can also do a free 2 week trial, but then you have to send it back or be charged.

BrandonS · ‎06-02-2021

It sounds like three basic SKUs you are after if I understand correctly: 1. Choose the model(s) of MR you like. 2. Choose license term 1-10 years and include one license per MR. 3. Choose number of Systems Manager licenses required. I encourage you to do Meraki Fit training if you are a reseller with a Cisco login: http://community.meraki.com/merakifit and/or watch some webinars/content on Meraki's YouTube channel to get a firm grasp of how it all works and fits together. Best.

BrandonS · ‎06-01-2021

You are a reseller, I guess? You may want to start at https://salesconnect.cisco.com and read up on Meraki a bit. BYOD is a pretty vague marketing term and does not correlate exactly with specific products or SKUs. What exactly have you been asked to quote?

BrandonS · ‎05-31-2021

Just a heads up that I discovered recently emails used with Meraki Go also have to be unique. I had assumed until then they had nothing to do with each other.

BrandonS · ‎05-24-2021

I'm not familiar with the specific database services you are referring to, but is OLEDB a different server/VM/IP address than MSSMS? I ask because if they were two different servers and one did not have the default gateway back to the VLAN IP on the MX it could explain what you describe. If that is not the case then do you want to share what your firewall rules look like between these VLANs? And are they being routed by the MX or somewhere else?

BrandonS · ‎05-19-2021

Well, as of now I no longer have access. Can one of you that are partners see if you can still access this through merakipartners.com? I can't even figure out how to contact Cisco about it because the Meraki portal does not fit any category to open a partner support ticket under.. Thanks!

BrandonS · ‎05-18-2021

Just following up here to let any Cisco resellers know that in merakipartners.com under resources there is a link to a document that has current constrained product status. It was news to me so maybe news for some of you too. Best.

BrandonS · ‎05-18-2021

@DHAnderson Interesting, I suppose a coincidence?, but my own office went offline around midnight Pacific time and I was already planning to drive over there today to find out what happened. It is the only Org of many dozens I saw go offline. Unless this issue is causing me to not get alerts for all the rest..

BrandonS · ‎05-18-2021

There is a Mailman list: https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/outages that often picks up on large outages early. Assuming this is more than just the Meraki silo I expect you might get some activity from that list very soon.

BrandonS · ‎05-18-2021

There seems to be an issue reaching the dashboard just recently. See here: https://community.meraki.com/t5/Dashboard-Administration/Server-Error-when-going-to-Meraki-Dashboard/m-p/118411#M4364%3Futm_source=communitymembers&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=immediate_general

BrandonS · ‎05-18-2021

I have a suspicion it may be AWS or something upstream of Meraki because I had trouble reaching some other random services this AM.

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