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LearningIsFun · ‎Nov 21 2023

Posting update as I was looking for this API call. https://developer.cisco.com/meraki/api/cycle-device-switch-ports/

MeredithW · ‎May 26 2021

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Jason-907 · ‎Jun 16 2020

The DNS option only shows up if you are using "Custom DNS" for your content filtering.

jdsilva · ‎Jun 9 2020

Hey @Jason-907. First I'll say that if you re-bind this network once you're done it'll wipe out the changes you've made and bring the network in line with the template again. So watch out for that. Once you unbind the network from the template I'm guessing that VLANs are disabled. You'll need to enable them first using this API call: https://api.meraki.com/api_docs/v0#enable/disable-vlans-for-the-given-network Once that's set to enabled you'll be able to create the VLANs you need.

Jason-907 · ‎Feb 11 2020

Thanks guys. I hit the easy button--enabled the VLANs and hoped that didn't break anything. It doesn't seem like it should break anything, but right after I did that our monitoring software stopped being able to ping the device. It was only after digging through the dashboard for a while that we figured out that the change broke the VPN mesh. I had to enable it for VLAN 1.

Jason-907 · ‎Oct 10 2019

I found that anything less than a 30 second delay was sketchy. It might toggle the PoE or it might not. I think it depends on timing and latency. The ping idea is clever and I'm disappointed in myself for not thinking of it myself. I guess I'll need to make a get-client type call to grab the IP address, but that should be easy enough. This should speed up the script considerably. Thanks for the idea!

Melissa · ‎Sep 30 2019

You might be a bit beyond this video at this point - but just in case, here it is! https://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/17628/366044 Have you checked out any of the examples on the Explore page of the Developer Hub? I'd love to know what you find is helpful / not - if you have a minute to message me directly.

Jason-907 · ‎Aug 27 2019

Thank! I don't know how I overlooked that. I think in most of my scripts I'd grabbed the list of devices in the org and used that for my list of networks. Since the SM network doesn't have hardware, it didn't show up in the list.

Jason-907 · ‎Aug 13 2019

The workhorse for gathering the information will be the following command. myvlans = meraki.getvlans(apikey, networkid, suppressprint=False) You'll want it to loop through the networks you have and then loop through the VLANs that this command pulls. The reservations you have set are based on MAC rather than IP, which can introduce some interesting issues depending on what you are doing with this data. Why Meraki (who allow you to upload reservations via CSV file) don't allow you to download existing reservations via a CSV file is beyond me. Good luck!

Jason-907 · ‎Aug 1 2019

I spend most of my day using powershell, but I found it more desirable to brush up on my Python skills than figure out how to tackle the Meraki API with powershell. I'll have to check this out, because it might streamline the way I do things if I can use add API calls to powershell scripts I already have. Thanks for the example.

pjc · ‎Jul 26 2019

@Jason-907Thanks Jason, much appreciated. That's a good place for me to start when referencing the networkId variable Thanks

Jason-907 · ‎Jul 18 2019

Thanks for all the help! Here's what I came up with. myvlans = meraki.getvlans(apikey, networkid, suppressprint=False) vlanid = 100 myipassignments = {newmac: {'ip': myip, 'name': name}} for vlan in myvlans: if vlan['id'] == vlanid: vlan['fixedIpAssignments'].pop(oldmac) vlan['fixedIpAssignments'][newmac] ={'name': name, 'ip': myip} meraki.updatevlan(apikey, networkid, vlanid, name=None, subnet=None, mxip=None, fixedipassignments=vlan['fixedIpAssignments'], reservedipranges=None, vpnnatsubnet=None, dnsnameservers=None, suppressprint=False) It works great, but while I was testing I noticed a slight quirk. I was swapping old mac and new mac back and forth, but changing the name so I could be sure things were changing, but the UpdateVLAN function doesn't change the name. It will set the name if it's a new MAC, but if you are recycling a MAC it will retain the name it had originally. You have to use the dashboard to actually change the name. Shouldn't *really* be an issue, but it could be a quirk if you are trying to write a script that adds more description to reservation names. (I like to use CompName-Username, but previous admins didn't follow this method, so I wouldn't be able to write a script to normalize this naming scheme.) Also, it seems like sometimes it will change the name and other times it won't...can't really figure out what the reason is behind it.

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