I see this write up for Clients - https://meraki.cisco.com/blog/2013/02/manage-devices-with-instant-alerts/, "Connectivity is checked every 1-2 seconds, and when a device fails to respond for 30 seconds, an alert is issued (IP address changes are handled gracefully, and do not trigger offline alerts). If a device goes dark, connectivity continues to be monitored from the dashboard so that once it reconnects it is immediately recognized."  Is this applicable only for Clients or Access Point which are managed by Meraki? If not, do we have similar write up or documentation that will help understand how much real time device disconnect alerts are? ... View more

Thanks for the details, just so that you know what I meant by NB API - typically an API which a client fetches about the state of the network, the topology, devices associated and their related config, kind of client-server communication which is synchronous, there are other types which use asynchronous communication wherein changes in the state of a network is pushed to the NB API application, it is server-client communication. From the responses received so far I see that Meraki uses Rest for API communication so I think we can put the terminology to "rest" now 🙂 North, South, East, West are nomenclatures driven by different vendors specific to their implementation which is why I'm out here seeking clarification on what Meraki does/doesn't support.   Coming to the question I still dint get how does one create a custom report using the Dashboard APIs that are available & tweak it to get interesting information?. Do we have some documentation, catalog or artifacts to help with?.             ... View more

My query was to understand the current offering from Meraki in terms of APIs & the ability for a user to be able to automate/leverage data at scale using NB APIs for retrieving backend data without the inherent limitations that come with the Web/Rest API & not to build any custom platform/infrastructure.   Is there no way to retrieve data for reporting itself as an endpoint with selection of different KPIs as I don't see it listed in the API documentation instead of having to combine different combinations of endpoints?.   https://developer.cisco.com/meraki/api/#!get-organizations ... View more

Ok. I was looking at the possibility of interacting with the devices using NB APIs via some sort of an API Gateway which are independent of the Web/Rest Interface and use that to Monitor/Configure/Troubleshoot devices.   Do we have the ability to schedule, modify or generate reports using the Dashboard/Rest API?.   ... View more

Yes I'm talking about Northbound APIs ... View more

Thank you! ... View more