Hello all,   I'm Cyril, young and dynamic sys admin. Working in Montreal right now, I deployed fews AP ans MS and soon MXs and System Manager. I discover Meraki last year and I really enjoy working with this technology. Hope this is just the beginning of the Meraki's adventure !   And hope we'll have lot of new functionalities !!!! ... View more

Sometimes, I had a huge spike on my internet connection and I didn't know why. All my network was really slow and I didn't know why. And I didn't have any statistics on the network. I only have a MS and few APs. What I did is put the MS before my core switch just after the firewall. And just like magic, the statistics began to appear 🙂  Just few hours after I did this change, I had statistics on my network. I knew how much traffic goes to my FW and where it comes from. I was abale to find the reason for all these spikes. Turns out it was iOS update, Windows update and RDP to a Linux server using xrdp.   Morality : Have statistics on the Dashboard can save you a lot of time for investigation and if it's not enough efficient, the online packet capture tool can help you too    Thanks Meraki to develop such cool tools.  ... View more