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cta102

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Re: Update Attributes of SSID API Call - Something weird going on?

by cta102 in Developers & APIs
‎06-21-2023 09:11 AM
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‎06-21-2023 09:11 AM
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You seem to be getting your self mixed up with Python lists and passing values directly Try   update=dashboard.wireless.updateNetworkWirelessSsid(targetNet, 0, name='Test SSID', enabled=True, encryptionMode= 'wpa', wpaEncryptionMode= 'WPA2 only',psk= 'NewPassword!') ... View more

Re: Problem with changing MX uplink settings via the API

by cta102 in Developers & APIs
‎06-21-2023 03:19 AM
‎06-21-2023 03:19 AM
Unfortunately that has the same issue as updateDeviceApplianceUplinksSettings I will probably dig into meraki.py at when I get time to see if both  WAN ports have to be written with the PUT request or if I can add an extra function which allows better targeting of WAN updates Thanks for taking the time though BTW in the V1 method you can specify a single WAN port, but it still updates both  ... View more

Problem with changing MX uplink settings via the API

by cta102 in Developers & APIs
‎06-20-2023 03:15 AM
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‎06-20-2023 03:15 AM
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 Folks,   has anybody got a work around for a problem I am having with updating the MX WAN ports We have a customer who wants a script to disable WAN2 on all their MX 64s and it's a quite large estate    Although setting ["WAN2"]["enabled "] = False via updateDeviceApplianceUplinksSettings does indeed shut WAN2 the problem occurs about 10 seconds later when WAN1 seems to reset and leaves the device without WAN connectivity for 80 to 90 seconds Although this is a 'just in case' script the customer wants I'm not sure that they would be happy with 1500+ 90 second disconnects across their estate. I think the issue is because updateDeviceApplianceUplinksSettings requires values to be written to both WAN1 and WAN2 Even though WAN1 essentially has no change it still treats the update as a change and acts accordingly. Has anybody found a way around this. Initial thought were Only write to WAN2 (API complains about empty fields not being permitted) Use the regular ethernet port to disable the port BUT because the port is defined as a WAN port it doesn't appear as a regular ethernet port any more. Meraki devs, can we have please address the WAN ports individually in the future please.   Thanks, Rob... ... View more

Re: Is the dashboard/api down? On node n72

by cta102 in Dashboard & Administration
‎03-07-2022 03:39 AM
‎03-07-2022 03:39 AM
N311 down also ... View more

Re: Air Marshal API calls (not all the expected events are returned)

by cta102 in Developers & APIs
‎10-22-2019 02:59 PM
‎10-22-2019 02:59 PM
Thanks, that was a great bit of timing and gives me something to play with tomorrow (even though I'm on leave.)   Sadly another team looks after the syslog server and the problem is that I ended up going through a  spreadsheet containing events that their rules (and AI solution) had simply dumped to offline storage for being of no interest (including some deauth_bcast_attack events.)   I was called to check if the team were alerting properly for Meraki events and after I found ignored events I was asked asked if it would be possible to pull the Air Marshal alerts so the management team can double check against the directly sourced Meraki data. I also have no desire to work through another of their 106K row spreadsheets again   TBH it's also the sort of tool I would run for a while when a new contract is brought into service to confirm that everything aligns properly before anything is accepted into service. ... View more

Air Marshal API calls (not all the expected events are returned)

by cta102 in Developers & APIs
‎10-22-2019 09:35 AM
‎10-22-2019 09:35 AM
I was asked if it would be possible to retrieve Air Marshal alerts via the API and  I thought that wouldn't be too much of a problem. However the problem I encountered was that the python meraki.getairmarshal call only seems to retrieve the 'Other SSIDs' entries For the Rogue SSIDs, Spoofs and Malicious Broadcasts and Packet floods categories no relevant data is returned.   I even ensured that I had Rogue SSIDs, Spoofs and Malicious Broadcasts both in the Air Marshal tab and in the logs. Am I looking in the wrong place or are these values simply not available at this point in time? One of the management teams are looking for an easy way to compare certain syslog server contents against data extracted from the Dashboard. Rob... ... View more
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Re: Meraki dashboard python API query

by cta102 in Developers & APIs
‎09-12-2019 04:46 AM
‎09-12-2019 04:46 AM
Sorry if I appear to be spamming:   There is an updated get_device_statuses function (which is in my current meraki.py library) at the base of this post   Personally I think the ability to evaluate the HTTP status codes would enhance the 'official' library a lot.   Testing with my own scripts shows    Normal calls behave normally so should I forget to update a function call it won't break 😉 So the following two calls will return the regular value and work 'normally' myStatuses = meraki.get_device_statuses(my_key, my_org) myStatuses = meraki.get_device_statuses(my_key, my_org, True)   The modified version call returns the regular value to the first specified variable and the HTTP status code to the second variable   myStatuses, httpRetcode = get_device_statuses(my_key, my_org, True, True)   I hope it helps some folks and personally I think it would be a nice addition to the 'official' library.     # List the status of every Meraki device in the organization # https://api.meraki.com/api_docs#list-the-status-of-every-meraki-device-in-the-organization def get_device_statuses(api_key, org_id, suppress_print=False): __hasorgaccess(api_key, org_id) call_type = 'Device Statuses'   get_url = '{0}/organizations/{1}/deviceStatuses'.format(str(base_url), str(org_id)) headers = { 'x-cisco-meraki-api-key': format(str(api_key)), 'Content-Type': 'application/json' } dashboard = requests.get(get_url, headers=headers) # # Call return handler function to parse Dashboard response # result = __returnhandler(dashboard.status_code, dashboard.text, call_type, suppress_print) return result ... View more

Re: Meraki dashboard python API query

by cta102 in Developers & APIs
‎09-12-2019 03:44 AM
‎09-12-2019 03:44 AM
I had a think and I have a solution that works for me and there would be a method of adding it to meraki.py without breaking the wider worlds script library.   As python can easily return multiple values from a subroutine one can modify calls with meraki.py from "return result" to return result,dashboard.status_code   So a call to get_device_statuses() would become:   statusList,callError = meraki.get_device_statuses(my_key, my_org, True)   With the http response code being found in callError (ie 200 for a successful call)   I have tested the additional status code value with a modified meraki.py library and it works well.   For wider usage (i.e. not just me) the breaking existing scripts could be avoided by an implicit parameter could be used similar to how suppress_print operates   With an implicit False in there the function will return only the traditional single variable An additional True parameter would return the optional status_code value   So meraki.get_device_statuses(my_key, my_org) # Returns regular data without suppressing the text output   meraki.get_device_statuses(my_key, my_org, True) # Suppresses the text output and returns traditional values   meraki.get_device_statuses(my_key, my_org, True, True) # Suppresses text output and returns both traditional data and the HTTP status code ... View more

Re: Meraki dashboard python API query

by cta102 in Developers & APIs
‎09-12-2019 02:46 AM
‎09-12-2019 02:46 AM
I'm unable to exceed the 5 request limit, but I suspect it is a combination of the monitoring team running a script and a provisioning team running multiple instances of a script to make changes. I get very little time to do any scripting (despite people wanting the output from them) so having to start recreate bits of meraki.py will be really irritating and get in the way of what I'm supposed to be doing of a day 😞 ... View more

Meraki dashboard python API query

by cta102 in Developers & APIs
‎09-11-2019 07:51 AM
‎09-11-2019 07:51 AM
Hi,   I have been doing some scripting and using the meraki.py which is fine except I have a small issue.   When I make an API call (via meraki.py) it would be useful to be able to evaluate any status codes especially errors and I'm putting 429 (Rate Limit) errors at the top of the list.   This ability may already be in there but I am not a python person and I'm missing the obvious and at the moment I can only check for an empty return value (which is not great.)   I know that I could roll my own API requests via the requests library (and have easy access to the status codes) but I dislike reinventing the wheel.   Recently I have been hit with a lot of Rate Limit issues when other teams run less well behaved scripts anywhere within the org <sigh> As these scripts can take over an hour to run through a particular organisation (over 1800 networks) I have made sure that I am well behaved regarding call limits BUT during these long periods I am at the mercy of other teams who are not so considerate and I have had a 90 minute run terminated during the last few sites. ... View more
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Re: Rouge SSIDs

by cta102 in Wireless LAN
‎09-04-2019 02:01 AM
‎09-04-2019 02:01 AM
It would depend on where you are in the world.   Personally I would speak to him and ask why this was done and if he/she was unpleasant about it I would consider speaking to the appropriate regulatory authorities. ... View more

Re: 🎁 🍰 🎈 Happy 2nd Birthday, Meraki Community! 🎈 🍰 🎁

by cta102 in Community Announcements
‎08-30-2019 03:38 AM
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‎08-30-2019 03:38 AM
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Meraki has made me a legend with security on our site. I'm apparently so important that I have my socks Fed Ex'ed to me 😉 ... View more

Re: 🎁 🍰 🎈 Happy 2nd Birthday, Meraki Community! 🎈 🍰 🎁

by cta102 in Community Announcements
‎08-21-2019 01:55 AM
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‎08-21-2019 01:55 AM
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Happy birthday all (and thanks for more badges.) ... View more

Re: Chromecast: casting from smartphone doesn't work with wired connection,...

by cta102 in Security / SD-WAN
‎08-06-2019 01:59 AM
‎08-06-2019 01:59 AM
Mafferik Re-enable the Bonjour and see if you get your volume levels and stuff back to normal as I may have been a little too sweeping regarding regarding it's benefit. ... View more

Re: Chromecast: casting from smartphone doesn't work with wired connection,...

by cta102 in Security / SD-WAN
‎08-06-2019 01:55 AM
‎08-06-2019 01:55 AM
I always have a play about with re-enabling Bonjour (and rebooting whatever device I use to stream from) and it has never made any difference so it gets switched off again. Almost all that I have read about the whole Googlecast business to come to the same conclusion (these are articles and postings which seemed to improve my Chromecast experience.) But then again that may be confirmation bias on my part (plus most networking experiences needs to be reappraised every once in a while.) Well it didn't used to make any difference a couple of years ago and every time I did my toes back into it (still trying to make the TiVo behave across subnets reliably and some other stuff) BTW My last play was with an XBox One a couple of months ago and still found the same behaviour, though the XBox is now on our regular client VLAN for reasons other than streaming. However it doesn't rule out that I have once again landed myself with up with several edge cases at once. ... View more

Re: Chromecast: casting from smartphone doesn't work with wired connection,...

by cta102 in Security / SD-WAN
‎08-05-2019 09:33 AM
‎08-05-2019 09:33 AM
Would agree with Philip's statement to confirm that you are permitting LAN access for Wi-Fi clients.   Also Chromecasts don't use Bonjour so enabling that is of no benefit for 'Googlecast ' devices. ... View more

Re: Announcing the winners of our July Points Contest

by cta102 in Community Announcements
‎08-02-2019 03:28 AM
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‎08-02-2019 03:28 AM
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Congrats to all (prize winners and otherwise)   Now I will sulk about the kudos that turned up too late to count 😉 ... View more

Re: How To Block Fortnite

by cta102 in Security / SD-WAN
‎08-02-2019 03:24 AM
‎08-02-2019 03:24 AM
The only thing I could think of is of Epic have a peering agreement with your ISP (which I doubt) you could possibly edit a hosts file on your machine to point epic.com (and whatever other servers) to the service your ISP is directly connected to.   However I don't know enough about Fortnite to say if this is the case. ... View more

Re: Single SSID and Vlans versus 1:1

by cta102 in Wireless LAN
‎08-01-2019 02:09 AM
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‎08-01-2019 02:09 AM
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You won't get Chromecast discovery (or things like TiVo that use "Googlecast" ) between subnets  without using something along the lines of Avahi.   Once you 'discover the devices'things are fine.   I have a Raspberry Pi providing that capability at home (if I don't have control over the behaviour a device it goes onto the Home Appliance network and this is where Chromecasts, TiVOs etc live) ... View more

Re: Packet capture on MX65W - Filter "view output below" returns no results

by cta102 in Security / SD-WAN
‎08-01-2019 01:59 AM
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‎08-01-2019 01:59 AM
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Works on my MX65 and MX64 as I would expect, but both MX's are on the MX14.39 firmware currently   I was trying to return the indicator of my MX64 to it's rightful brightness and downgraded from the current Beta ... View more

Re: What happen to the footage if a camera has been stolen?

by cta102 in Smart Cameras
‎07-30-2019 04:02 AM
‎07-30-2019 04:02 AM
If that is a real concern then you probably want to have cameras with overlapping fields of view as well as cloud storage. Any experience I have had with cameras you usually want to ascertain what happened before and after an 'event' and not just rely upon what a single camera recorded (though the events in our part of the world was usually more than something being stolen.)   I haven't checked recently but I do remember suggesting that it would be an idea to include motion sensors in cameras and have the facility to start uploading recent video (or at least still images) when the camera thinks it is being removed from it's mounting point. ... View more

Re: MX64 Status light query

by cta102 in Security / SD-WAN
‎07-29-2019 09:46 AM
‎07-29-2019 09:46 AM
Just glad that I'm not imagining things. Guess I should log the issue then as it's aberrant behaviour (it didn't used to do that.) ... View more

Re: To band steer or not to band steer

by cta102 in Wireless LAN
‎07-29-2019 06:25 AM
‎07-29-2019 06:25 AM
No problem, it's just a thing that some folks do to ensure they know what band they are on. ... View more

Re: To band steer or not to band steer

by cta102 in Wireless LAN
‎07-29-2019 06:12 AM
‎07-29-2019 06:12 AM
You may wish to have differently named SSIDs so you are sure of connecting to your preferred band ... View more

MX64 Status light query

by cta102 in Security / SD-WAN
‎07-29-2019 03:49 AM
‎07-29-2019 03:49 AM
Fairly trivial question except I have had a couple of customer queries, believing their MX64s have been powered off and the one I have at home is doing the same thing.   Has anything changed in the recent MX firmware regarding the behaviour of the front LED indicator?   The white (everything good) or flashing white (firmware updating) is running at a very reduced brightness and is incredibly hard to see.   During reboot and everything else, the LED indicator operates at the regular brightness level. As it's an RGB LED which can reach full brightness while booting I would very much doubt it's a hardware issue   My MX65 runs happily on with a full intensity white status (and full intensity flash during the update process.) ... View more
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