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MartinSeitz · ‎Jan 17 2021

hello cmr, thanks for your counter questions. I have check in the data what I was able to do. - No firmware update to that time. - No reboot of the MX to this time. - and the change log also shows no relevant changes. But you question about inventory bringt me to an idea. The Spare mashine that was installed in the passt was borrowed from Meraki it self and of cause was sent back to them. So even when the customer did not remove the serialnumber from inventory. In the moment when the serialnumber is added to another organization the serialnumber must disappear from inventory. That would also match to the event-time which was 3:30 am in Germany which could be day light elswer in the world. The question remains whether removing the serial number of the spare machine from the inventory leads to the observed behaviour. This means that the WAN1 address is used for VPN communication instead of the configured VIP address.

MartinSeitz · ‎Jan 14 2021

Hey anybody. General Description: I have a customer having issues with Auto VPN due to the fact that the MX changed the UPlink IP address. Detailed Description: In the scenario we have a MX working as a VPN concentrator behind a 3rd party vendor FW (FW-A). The MX has two Uplinks to FW-A onto WAN1 (10.10.1.2) and WAN2 (20.20.1.1). On FW-A there is a NAT rule for the IP of WAN1 to be transformed into a specific public IP Address. For WAN2 there is no specific NAT rule. In the past I think it is almost one year in the past it was planned to set up the MX as a warm spare cluster. And for a short period of time there was a 2nd MX. Therefor a warm spare was configured and a virtual IP (10.10.1.1) was set. So the NAT rule on FW-A was changed to reflect this setting. SNAT 10.10.1.1 to public IP. Once the 2nd MX was put of the cluster, nobody reversed thechange and the MX continued to work with its virtual IP. Now after a longer period of time it changed his interpretation of the Cluster Situation and uses his WAN1 IP address for uplink communication. This causes the NAt rule not to match and results in a failure for the VPN. To solve the VPN issue we have changed the NAT rule, works. ❓ Question: But I like to know, - why was the change of the "warm spare cluster situation" now? (The MX was able to hold its virtual IP live for such a long time without seeing the spare partner for months) - Is there a known Timer behind it? - Is there any kind of notification that should appear? - does anybody know if this is recognizable in any kind of logging?

MartinSeitz · ‎Jan 7 2021

My Goals for 2021: I want to finish my Prince2 Practionair Certification I want to use the learned skills to develop Network Solutions in combination with Meraki of course that can be offered to our customers. By the end of the of 2020 we had a Project where the customer wants to have NAC features solved just with Meraki and Windows NPS. And that Customer had somany differnt scenarios. We solved almost any scenario. The goal now is to standardize that gained knowledge to bring this to more of our customers with similar needs.

MartinSeitz · ‎Jan 27 2020

Hey Phil, this is exactly what I was looking for. This code eliminates a lot of work in error avoiding. Thank you very much.

MartinSeitz · ‎Jan 27 2020

thanks to @BrechtSchamp with your idea of comparison I was able to develop a solution for my problem.

MartinSeitz · ‎Jan 26 2020

Hello Meraki & API fans, I have discovered a problem that I wasn't able to solve today. I am sure you all know the following code. api_key = '093b24e85df15a3e66f1fc359f4c48493eaa1b73' #sandbox import meraki m = meraki.DashboardAPI(api_key) orgs = m.organizations.getOrganizations() print(orgs) The result in my case is: [{'id': '537758', 'name': 'Meraki Launchpad🚀', 'url': 'https://n149.meraki.com/o/d029Cc/manage/organization/overview', 'samlConsumerUrl': 'https://n149.meraki.com/saml/login/d029Cc/rtFn7bJtIRna', 'samlConsumerUrls': ['https://n149.meraki.com/saml/login/d029Cc/rtFn7bJtIRna']}, {'id': '549236', 'name': 'DevNet Sandbox', 'url': 'https://n149.meraki.com/o/-t35Mb/manage/organization/overview'}] My goal is to have python code that delivered the organization ID to a corresponding organization name. Like, give me the ID from the Organisation with the name Meraki Launchpad🚀. The ID is 537758 I have searched the whole day was not able how to transform the data to get this information. I need this because I want to create a new organization with the API and then the same script should return the Id of the newly created organization so that I can use that information for the next operations or following scripts. But I don't want to request all Orgs and then copy past the key by hand this should come from the script. If You do think I am on the wrong way with the problem above feel free to let me know. Thanks for your replies.

MartinSeitz · ‎Jan 22 2020

I am so sad, I won't be at live this year. So I can not catch some socks. 😪

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