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MerakiJockey505 · ‎Jan 2 2018

This community has had a huge impact on our troubleshooting proficiency and been an awesome resource for our organization. It's awesome to see how large its grown and how knowledgeable and effective the community members are! Happy to be a part of it! Thanks again @CarolineS for driving the force behind this all and thanks @tnight for the recognition and support!

MerakiJockey505 · ‎Sep 1 2017

There is no spot on the appliance to assign a name for DNS. They also do not allow dynamic DNS naming for devices on DHCP. Any suggestions besides statically naming? This becomes an issue when we have a large amount of devices.

MerakiJockey505 · ‎Aug 31 2017

@PentagonSystems@BowlesCR@JPAWELCHAKWe should definitely add it to the make a wish board on this community. Fortunately we can at least tag Meraki staff and know that it's going to an actual person and not just on a spreadsheet somewhere. I will definitely Kudo and push for that wish as well as get my colleagues to do the same.

MerakiJockey505 · ‎Aug 31 2017

@PentagonSystems, I agree that definitely seems like a security issue. I am going to have to give it a try on the the MX65 - MX100 out of production time to see if that is the case across all models. A little concerning.

MerakiJockey505 · ‎Aug 30 2017

@RCS137we have had instances of Meraki.com actually being blocked by the appliance as well. Last time we reached out to support we were told verification runs through an organization called BrightCloud. The site seems to work well however we come across random occurrences of safe sites being blocked all the time.

MerakiJockey505 · ‎Aug 21 2017

Thanks @CarolineS and thanks Meraki for opening this up and for the opportunity to jump in on the ground floor!

MerakiJockey505 · ‎Aug 21 2017

Awesome, would love to see how these operate in production with PBX

MerakiJockey505 · ‎Aug 18 2017

I agree, I am not a Cisco partner but would definitely be able to pitch the equipment. I've already shifted several consulting buddies to team Meraki just by showing them features on the equipment we already have active.

MerakiJockey505 · ‎Aug 17 2017

Is the CMNA a pre-requisite? After reading about the program and the perks of the coveted Meraki Masters training, how could you not want to get in on that? How does one go about earning an invitation? It would be pretty sweet to have some troubleshooting questions put up in this community by the Meraki staff in a "contest" fashion with the prize being an invitation to training. Thoughts?

MerakiJockey505 · ‎Aug 17 2017

We don't particularly have any use for the vMX100 in our organization environment currently, however, these look pretty nifty for a virtualized portable sandbox dev environment. Does anyone have any experience with the virtual devices in conjunction with Amazon's EC2?

MerakiJockey505 · ‎Aug 17 2017

@Mr_IT_GuyThat is a pretty nifty feature. I hated setting up the RADIUS server when we used one. The Meraki side of it wasn't too bad, but the client set up was a tedious nightmare. Any on-board help devices can offer is definitely a plus.

MerakiJockey505 · ‎Aug 17 2017

Thanks @kYutobi, for the price and usability of the Merakis you really can't beat it. I don't think we'll be switching anytime, but nice to know other Meraki users feel the same.

MerakiJockey505 · ‎Aug 17 2017

Thanks @NFL0NR, those are some pretty cool looking WAPs. I don't think we'll switch anytime soon as our Meraki's work extremely well for us, but always nice to know the other players in the field.

MerakiJockey505 · ‎Aug 17 2017

Thanks @NFL0NR, great info to know. We have a lot of VPN users and they do often complain about slow connections.

MerakiJockey505 · ‎Aug 17 2017

Is anyone currently using an MX600 in production? I'm wondering what the difference in performance is like from an MX400. Aside from the client threshold, are there many other advantages?

MerakiJockey505 · ‎Aug 17 2017

@bholmes12I'm a huge fan of Cradlepoints. We have a few mobile sites and a few rural sites that run exclusively on cradlepoints. They work pretty well for the most part. The only issue we have there is that only the older models support 3G coverage which unfortunately is all we have in some of our rural areas. It will be 4G eventually and regardless most devices will drop the 3G capability after that happens I'm sure.

MerakiJockey505 · ‎Aug 17 2017

Couldn't agree more @NFL0NR. It still surprises me how many troubleshooting solutions require either a reboot or a remove-from and re-add to network fix. The majority of our sites are in production at all times and a reboot or a network pull requires a large amount of coordination with site admins and providers in order to facilitate. Even worse, if the reboot doesn't fix the issue or ends up causing another problem we've now taken down the site for nothing and/or made it worse. I realize this is why failover devices are important, however, some sites don't have the budget for multiple pieces of equipment.

MerakiJockey505 · ‎Aug 17 2017

@NFL0NRDefinitely, one of the big issues we end up having is with VoIP. Unless we are using a Meraki switch we get virtually no analytics out of the devices. This becomes especially frustrating when we are doing something like Telehealth in addition to normal VoIP traffic. Distinguishing between the two as far as loss goes is virtually impossible on most of our interfaces.

MerakiJockey505 · ‎Aug 17 2017

Our organization is Meraki exclusive when it comes to WAPs. We've been pretty happy with their performance so far and only had a few hiccups. I've heard a lot towards the discussion of AP Console based control versus Cloud Based Control. One of the bigger players on the AP Console Based side is Aerohive. We aren't planning on switching it up anytime soon but I'm interested to hear from anyone who has used them before. I've heard of certain advantages on the Aerohive side such as seamless roaming and the ability to console from the device. I personally am content with the wired.meraki.com style setup and feel the roaming capability on the Merakis works solid but I'm curious to hear from anyone who has used any alternatives.

MerakiJockey505 · ‎Aug 16 2017

I've come across this before also. Though it is a bit tedious, I've had success configuring a RADIUS server and using authentication via MAC-based access control found in the Access Control tab under Wireless. It definitely is a pain for larger networks and multiple clients, but it will work in a pinch. If your using a Z1 you probably won't have too hard of a time configuring for a small amount of users.

MerakiJockey505 · ‎Aug 15 2017

@BradB, Yes definitely! I've followed some of the work being done with Location Analytics API and 3rd Party integration and would love to see that kind of development utilize some of the other devices for various applications such as Penetration testing and more in-depth security application. A training along that lines and a corresponding cert program would be awesome!

MerakiJockey505 · ‎Aug 15 2017

Awesome, thanks @Morgan for the additional info and link. I think these devices are definitely going to be brought to the table at our next Infrastructure meeting.

MerakiJockey505 · ‎Aug 15 2017

Thanks @BradB for clearing up the distinction. I am currently a CMNO but would also love the ability to pitch Meraki equipment to other teams and clubs that I've worked with or consulted for. I think it's a much easier sell to others when you are actively using the product in practice. Also, the ability to develop plugins and extensions for the Meraki dashboard would be an awesome training course that I would definitely sign up for.

MerakiJockey505 · ‎Aug 15 2017

Thanks @CapitolG!

MerakiJockey505 · ‎Aug 15 2017

Thanks @Morgan, I will take a look at those ASAP! @DarkStar, something to consider mayhaps?

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