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Hello, Were you able to get any idea for why this API call fails on certain networks? I'm working on a similar script and would was curious to know if you've been able to find any patterns. Thanks!

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Nevermind, I just had to update my SDK. Excuse my stupidity.

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Hey @JasonM, I did try that as well, but it results in the following error: TypeError: unbindNetwork() got an unexpected keyword argument 'retainConfigs' Any ideas on what I could be doing wrong?

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Hey guys, Trying to use this API call: https://developer.cisco.com/meraki/api-v1/#!unbind-network Need some guidance on how to include the optional retainConfigs: true boolean. I've tried a variety of different formats, all of which are leading to different errors. I'm sure there's a correct way to enter this, I just have no idea what it is. Here is what I'm currently working with: dashboard.networks.unbindNetwork( network_id, { "retainConfigs": True } ) If someone who's used optional params before could offer some guidance on the correct syntax for this API call, it would be much appreciated. Thank you.

AutomationDude · ‎10-07-2022

https://go.boundlessdigital.com/meraki-api-with-python-course/registration I made this free course a while ago. The project at the end is exactly what you're describing so this should equip you perfectly! Good luck

AutomationDude · ‎10-04-2022

Before/after would be useful to see how it's changed. You never realise when the things you don't notice have changed haha

AutomationDude · ‎10-04-2022

Hello, I assume you just want to add the rules on top of what you already have. If that is the case, you could try within your script to read the current rules via API, add your rules on top, and then putt the joint the data back via the API call you're using. Not ideal but seems to be the way to do what you want

AutomationDude · ‎09-15-2022

@PhilipDAth Looks like they're making space for you

AutomationDude · ‎09-07-2022

Thank you all for your input, gonna take this to the drawing board.

AutomationDude · ‎09-06-2022

Hello guys, Trying to solve a a problem that shouldn't be solved with APIs by using APIs. Was wondering if you have any input. I have a customer that wants to be alerted every time any of their networks (all with different ISPs) goes to an extremely low download speed below a certain threshold. There is the internal dashboard tool to view speed and of course speed test websites, but there isn't a direct API endpoint for speed. I am going to try to use this one to infer if the speed is too slow however: https://developer.cisco.com/meraki/api-latest/#!get-device-live-tools-ping Is this a reasonable approach? Let me know if anything else comes to mind 🙂

AutomationDude · ‎08-29-2022

You might have IP restrictions enabled on who can use the API with this organization. Do check out that configuration in the Organization settings on dashboard.

AutomationDude · ‎08-29-2022

I do not know if there is an endpoint that does exactly what you're looking for but maybe these can be helpful: https://developer.cisco.com/meraki/api-v1/#!get-organization-devices-uplinks-loss-and-latency https://developer.cisco.com/meraki/api-v1/#!get-organization-uplinks-statuses

AutomationDude · ‎08-29-2022

Hello Mike, There are two approaches I can think of here: - Use an external Guest Wifi provider that has more sophisticated scheduling settings. Would be set and forget. - Write an API script that is hosted in the cloud and automatically does this every Friday. Would also be set and forget. You can send me a message if you need some assistance as my company can help with both.

AutomationDude · ‎08-23-2022

@PhilipDAth deserves to become the CEO of Meraki at this point

AutomationDude · ‎08-22-2022

Looks like a missing/broken feature to me. Most endpoints are unavailable for bound networks and I guess this got swept under that category too. What do you guys think? @John-K @DexterLaBora

AutomationDude · ‎08-22-2022

There are several things you can do such as: - Error catching -> If no errors are caught then its safe to assume things worked out - Read API calls afterwards -> This will allow you to check the read data against certain conditions Generally speaking though, the logic you're trying to do doesn't make much sense. The API touches only what its meant to and nothing else. There's no way to ensure that the correct configurations were made because it is not possible to define "correct" in terms of code, especially since the whole point of the script is to change the configurations and thus the definition of "correct" changes as well. If the script is meant to change configurations, that's exactly what it will do. Nothing else.

AutomationDude · ‎07-28-2022

I don't think this is a beta API feature. I guess what they're trying to say is that staged upgrades can be accomplished using the API, but there isn't a specific endpoint dedicated to this. If that is the case then this should be corrected on documentation

AutomationDude · ‎07-27-2022

https://documentation.meraki.com/General_Administration/Licensing/Meraki_Per-Device_Licensing_Overview You should be good to go, just review this documentation which mentions you can't have more than 50000 1 Day licenses. So ensure the customer has less than 555 APs

AutomationDude · ‎07-26-2022

Thank you very much. The thing is that certain high usage clients are meant to be permitted so just trying to explore as many variables as I can in order to define the restriction most precisely

AutomationDude · ‎07-26-2022

Thank you @RaphaelL. Looks like that won't work for this use case then. https://developer.cisco.com/meraki/api-v1/#!get-network-client-traffic-history Any idea what numFlows and Active seconds is here and if that could be used to determine how active a user has been overtime on a network?

AutomationDude · ‎07-25-2022

Hey guys, I am trying to write code where if a client comes on more than X number of times on the network, we put them on a certain group policy. https://developer.cisco.com/meraki/api-v1/#!get-network-clients-overview I found this api endpoint but was looking for some help to understand what "usages" and "counts" signify. Thank you!

AutomationDude · ‎07-06-2022

Hey guys, I'm working on delivering a script to a client that they can simply run as an executable file. To do this I've used PyInstaller. I cannot however get the executable version of the script running, as I run into this error every time I try to run it. I was wondering if anyone has experience with Pyinstaller making meraki code executable in general. It would even be helpful to translate what this error means I'm not very sure where to look as I go about debugging. ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'meraki.__init__.rest_session' My hunch is that there is something about where the packages are installed, but i've tried deleting and reinstalling all the packages inside and outside a virtual environment, and even creating the executable at the top level folder of my computer. Any input would be welcome. Thank you.

AutomationDude · ‎06-22-2022

No worries, happened to me too. Basically someone in your organization who's an admin needs to go to the administrators tab and let you in.

AutomationDude · ‎06-20-2022

In the past I've put conditional print statements inside my exception catching blocks. Something like if Meraki exception e includes "rstp" then print("rstp unavailable or entered incorrectly"). Maybe that helps.

AutomationDude · ‎06-20-2022

Seems like you're on the right track. If the API call fails then the variable isn't created with the same contents. Not clear why you need to check if it exists, but your assumptions seem to be correct.

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