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I think PowerShell is one of the most powerful things in the Windows environment. I love using it. Since Python has the best support from the Meraki community, I think I will take the advice, at least to test it out in Python. Hopefully it won't take long to migrate my almost 1000 lines PowerShell script over. Thanks everyone here.
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Saturday
@PhilipDAth Are you using /devices/{serial}/switchPorts in your scripts? Mine doesn't work anymore. I do believe Python has better support with Meraki API. I am working in a Windows shop, and PowerShell is more of a natural fit for other tasks. For many simple tasks like,reading a csv file, extract data from it, manipulate it, it is very straightforward. Of course, it could be just me not know the tricks in Python.
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Saturday
@John-K , Thanks a lot for sharing all those reasons behind the versioning. It helps a lot. Just had a rough day after chasing those errors. The interactive document site looks very nice. I will kick some tires on it. I normally use Postman to test the API. Now I got a new tool to test it. One thing I am still not clear is: when should I be using v0, and v1? It is very confusing to me. An example is the switch ports configuration. I found that /devices/{serial}/switchPorts no longer works regardless it is v0 or v1 that I tested with. Finally, I changed it to v1 with /devices/{serial}/switch/ports and it works. Another one is if I use v1 on /organizations/$OrganisationID/networks to create a new network, it failed. If I changed it back to v0, it works. Unfortunately, PowerShell Invoke-RestMethod doesn't really return the error stream nicely to let me know why it failed with v1 except saying it is a 400 error. Anyway, the workaround I have is that I am using both v0 and v1 in my PowerShell script. It is just getting messy.
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a week ago
I have been using Meraki API since v0 and it worked out great. I mainly use it in PowerShell for new branch deployments involving MX, and MS with different VLANS. I created this PowerShell script a while back and has let other members in my team to use it. Now that the API has been improving a lot, and adding more functions to it, which is great. In the same time, I also need to keep up with the new changes, since it is not backward compatible, which means my job a little more challenge to keep up. I love working with PowerShell, but I am not sure full time developer. Every now and then I need to revisit PowerShell and Meraki API page to keep up because my team keeps coming back to tell me it is not working. Now my question is how hard is it to keep the API backward compatible? Or is it just me who is struggling to keep up with the API updates? Thanks Byron
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01-14-2020
05:52 AM
I do not see where to set the bitrate neither, so it is the default settings, and we are not using band steering neither. The devices we have are Windows 10, but at one point I did ask a branch user to use her smartphone, and she was seeing the same symptom of being able to see SSID1, but not SSID2. I didn't check if it is Android, or iOS, but definitely not Windows 🙂 It seems it needs to meet certain conditions before you are able to see this issue. I will see if I can manually reproduce it in my office.
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01-14-2020
05:47 AM
Whatever the date rate is, it is the default setting. I do not see the option to change it. I leave the channels settings at the default of auto for both 2.4 and 5Ghz. We have two devices in each of those branches, and all of them behave the same way. I even asked the branch user to use their smartphone to check the wifi, and they were not able to see the SSID2, but were able to see SSID1. I thought it only happens to this one branch, but now as our project goes on, we are seeing more and more branches are having this issue. This symptom only happens to some of our branches, which probably needs to meet certain condiction. But regardless, it is telling me the not all SSID in an MX equal.
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01-13-2020
12:24 PM
This is 14.39 on both of the MX60W and MX64W I just tried. I ran into this on a 67W too, but forgot which location I put it in since it was a couple of weeks ago before the new year, will need to look for it. It could be a bug. That is why I am checking to see if anyone else out there has similar experience. Thanks Byron
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01-13-2020
10:56 AM
Thanks @NolanHerring. That was how I understood it since it is from the same device. However, that is not what I observed. In some of our branches, some devices are able to see SSID1, but not SSID2. I even opened the ticket about it and it didn't go anywhere. So I played around with it, and here is what I found. 1) I changed the channels from Auto to some static channels, sometimes it works. But it stopped working again after one or two weeks. 2) If I disable SSID1, and keep SSID2 enabled, the devices are still not able to see SSID2. 3) If I swap the configuration of SSID1 and SSID2, the device is able to connect SSID1 regardless SSID2 is enabled or disabled. This tells me SSIDs in MX are not equal. It seems SSID1 has a stronger signal than SSID2. I haven't tested with other SSID#, but this is what I observed so far. Does this make sense to you? Thanks Byron
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01-13-2020
08:03 AM
Hi, We using MX64W and MX67W in our branches, with SSID1 setup as guest WiFi. Now when we are enabling SSID2, in some branches we found the devices are able to see the SSID1, but not SSID2. My questions are: 1) Are the WiFi signal strength equal between those enabled SSIDs? 2) If not, who has the strongest signal? 3) Are there any way to control it? Thanks Byron
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12-11-2019
08:34 PM
The feature I wish to have is the ability to create multiple VPN hub groups. With that, I can have a group of hubs for our own datacenters, and have a different group for our partner's datacenters, so that we have a clearer separation.
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08-05-2019
06:53 PM
In my MX, the SSID number seems working correctly. It does have an hidden ssid 0 that is not avaialbe in the web page. When I ran PUT against ssid 2, the second SSID in the web page does get updates.
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08-05-2019
06:46 PM
I tried like you suggested in postman, and it didn't generate any error. It was able to update everything, except for the VLAN assignment field. I tried to include "defaultVlanId": 14, and I got the same result without any error, but it just won't update the VLAN assignment field. { "name":"My SSID", "enabled":true, "authMode": "open", "ipAssignmentMode": "Bridge mode", "useVlanTagging": true, "vlanId": 14 } Thanks ByronZ
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08-05-2019
02:40 PM
Thanks DillonofAnch17 . Do you have any samples of the json data for assigning a VLAN? I tried to follow the document, but just not able to make it work. Thanks ByronZ
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08-05-2019
02:37 PM
Thanks PhilipDAth. When I do a GET, it is this, with useVlanTagging as false. But in the web interface, I can confirm it is assigned to a non-default VLAN. { "number": 2, "name": "TestWiFi", "enabled": true, "splashPage": "None", "ssidAdminAccessible": false, "authMode": "psk", "psk": "TestPassword", "encryptionMode": "wpa", "wpaEncryptionMode": "WPA2 only", "ipAssignmentMode": "Bridge mode", "useVlanTagging": false, "minBitrate": null, "bandSelection": "Dual band operation", "perClientBandwidthLimitUp": 0, "perClientBandwidthLimitDown": 0 } I am really scratching my head on why it behaves like this. I have tried to use PUT to update with both useVlanTagging,vlanId, and defaultVlanId, but it won't update. Maybe I am put the attributes in the json file wrong? I don't know... Thanks ByronZ
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08-04-2019
06:14 PM
Hi, I am trying to use Powershell with Meraki API to create 300 WiFi in MX64W, and assign a specific VLAN to it. However, I am running into issues to assigning the new WiFi to a specific VLAN. Does anyone know how to assign a VLAN to a SSID? Thanks for any help. ByronZ
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