As we reach the first big milestone in our journey to build a better experience for alert management, we are excited to share multiple features we have launched to date.   At the beginning of February, we made the Organization Alerts page generally available. This page is one of the most requested alerting features by users and an extension of the Alert Hub. It is located under the Organization tab and can be accessed by admins with organization-level privilege.     This page is designed to: Improve context & troubleshooting: The alert timeline will help network admins visualize temporal correlation between alerts, leading to faster issue identification.  Improve prioritization & focus: With the help of the analytics section, network admins can easily navigate the flood of alerts and focus on priority networks and critical alerts. Ease discovery: There are 11 different filters to help network admins quickly discover alerts, such as filters for custom time range, severity, network, alert type, device type, and even device tags. Active and resolved alerts are prefiltered to help cut out noise during active alert troubleshooting.  Reduce alert fatigue: Bundling alerts that require similar responses streamlines network admins' workflows and makes them less intrusive, which prevents alerts from being ignored and admins from missing critical issues. Provide full-stack visibility: We have made alerts more consistent across the Org Alerts page, Alert Hub, and device details page. We have over 130 alert types to help increase awareness - to learn more please refer to our documentation. We are also very excited to share that we have launched organization level alert API endpoints that will help our customers drastically reduce API calls to collect alerts from each network. These changes should make the alerting infrastructure and overall process of assuring networking experiences easier than ever! ... View more

We are excited to announce that our new AP Neighbors feature will become publicly available for beta soon! AP Neighbors aims to provide enhanced visibility and insights to Meraki dashboard users on their access point environments.   Designed to greatly improve the management of access point RF interference, AP neighbors provides IT administrators with the tools necessary to maintain network performance and proactively address potential poor performance due to signal overlap from multiple APs.   AP Neighbors Page         The AP neighbors page is set-up to help visualize the four key categories of potential RF interference:   Interfering APs on the same channel Interring APs with some overlap Non-interfering APs Total in-network neighbors     Within each category, users can view specific interference examples and identify several key metrics, including client connection numbers, channel utilization, and RSSI value. By utilizing these KPIs, users can proactively troubleshoot specific connectivity issues simply.       In the above image we can see the detailed metric view of a network's interference based on RSSI strength (x-axis) across all in-network APs that contributes to either high, moderate, or low interference situations.     RF Spectrum Overview   The RF Spectrum overview page (see below) provides users with crucial, real-time data on their RF environments.     Administrators will be able to identify problematic channel utilization or packet loss situations, and hone in on specific APs for precise troubleshooting.     Learn more about AP Neighbors in our documentation and feel free to check the feature out via Early Access in the Meraki dashboard! ... View more

We’re excited to announce that all iOS 17 devices, including the new iPhone 15, iPhone 15 Plus, iPhone15 Pro, and iPhone 15 Pro Max can be enrolled and managed with Systems Manager MDM.   Additionally, there is now a new simple way to fetch device model information - Apple products will now report their device model and show them in the Meraki dashboard automatically.   We’ve also added a host of new functionality to our feature set to improve user experience, including:   Apple Automated Device Enrollment (ADE): new skip keys have been added, so now all screens can be skipped during setup assistant, including an ability to “skip all” screens from the start.   For Shared iPads: The ability to set the following keys during ADE has been added: ManagedAppleIDDefaultDomains, OnlineAuthenticationGracePeriod, SkipLanguageAndLocaleSetupForNewUsers.   tvOS devices can now be easily targeted for networking profiles, such as VPN.   A new "force encrypt" key to force FileVault encryption before release from ADE. This will force the device to finish the FileVault encryption process before being released from the ADE process and exiting the Apple Setup Assistant on first setup. Finally, when issuing commands from the Dashboard, you can now attach a wifi profile to Erase Device commands. This will allow iOS devices to automatically reconnect to wifi after factory reset, making the network rejoin process much easier and quicker for devices after reset.   Take advantage of these new features by updating your devices to iOS 17 and learn how you can do this in bulk easily for your devices with our new Enhanced OS Updates functionality. ... View more

Exciting news for you all as we announce the addition of new solutions from our amazing ecosystem partner - Boundless Digital! At Cisco Meraki, we are always striving to improve the power of our network management capabilities and with our partnership with Boundless Digital we are doing just that.   •Boundless Digital offers a full-stack of cloud-managed tools with one single platform. •Provides tools to optimize, automate, standardize, and scale Cisco Meraki operations. •Develop solutions based on Cisco Meraki APIs simplifying the management of large-scale infrastructures. What are the new solutions?   With this partnership we can now offer 33 brand new SKUs, aimed at providing best-in-class solutions across 6 key categories:     Where can I learn more?   Check out more information on this amazing partnership here: https://developer.cisco.com/ecosystem/meraki/#key=boundless ... View more

The Meraki dashboard team is super excited to announce the public beta launch of not one, but two brand new features today! The Network Service Health and Roaming Analytics features are both available today (03/31/23) via early access and promise to provide even more powerful and intuitive network assurance management capabilities to you, our customers.   Network Service Health   The Network Service Health tile is designed to allow you a one-stop-shop overview of your entire network environment, greatly reducing the lift of assessing network health and granting a quick monitoring and troubleshooting process.     With Network Service Health you will be able to get a comprehensive overview of all Radius, DHCP, and DNS server environments as well as a more detailed metric view. Assess overall performance with ease, while also diving deeper into specified client attempts or potential server failure reason codes.     Roaming Analytics   We understand the pain points associated with the standard process monitoring client roaming activity. The old process can be tedious and intensely manual, but with our new Roaming Analytics feature we transform the old static log of network events into an interactive and engaging dashboard view:     Roaming Analytics was built to provide a streamlined visualization of roaming behavior; relaying crucial roaming metrics such as client disconnects and roaming success rate. Additionally, it provides a time range selector tool you can use to pinpoint specific time periods or hone in on specific client activity.     How do I access these cool new features?   Find both of these new features in our Meraki dashboard Early Access program. First navigate to Organization > Early Access and opt-in by clicking the toggle buttons seen below:         Learn more about both Network Service Health and Roaming Analytics in their respective Meraki documentation pages. Thanks for trying these new features out! ... View more

The announcements keep on rolling and our Meraki Systems Manager team is excited to share with you our brand new Managed Per App Networking feature in conjunction with the Cisco Security Connector app! This powerful feature will allow users of Meraki Systems Manager to deploy Cisco security on a per-app basis for both supervised and unsupervised devices, allowing for greater specified mobile management control.       One of the most exciting aspects of Managed Per App Networking via Cisco Security Connector is its ability to offer users seamless integration with Cisco security tools, including Cisco Umbrella per-app DNS and Cisco Clarity (Secure Endpoint) per-app web content filtering. These integrations will allow you to apply specific security policies to individual apps and provide an additional layer of protection and visibility for your organization.   With Cisco Umbrella per-app DNS, you can specify which DNS server to use for each app. This means you can enforce different DNS policies for different apps, such as blocking access to malicious domains or enforcing content filtering. Cisco Clarity per-app web content filtering allows you to apply web filtering policies to individual apps, allowing you to control which websites users can access within each app. This feature is especially useful for organizations that need to comply with industry-specific regulations or those that need to protect their users from inappropriate content.     The dashboard will show managed apps which have been configured for Managed per-app networking with Cisco Security Connector:    How do I set this up for my organization? There are unique API integrations between Meraki Dashboard and the Cisco Umbrella and Cisco Secure Endpoint portals to make the profile creation in Meraki Dashboard occur seamlessly. This means you do not need to configure complex keys/values in MDM profiles, and you can be sure that the profile contains the proper configuration from your Umbrella and Secure Endpoint portals. To view the steps necessary to setup Managed Per App Networking with Cisco Security Connector for SM enrolled devices please view the documentation.   Overall, Managed Per App Networking with Cisco Umbrella and Cisco Clarity is a powerful new feature that can help you take control of your network traffic and improve your security posture. I encourage you to give it a try and let us know how it works for you!      ... View more

We are super excited to announce the launch of the new Switching Overview feature as part of our continuously improving Meraki dashboard! This new feature provides a centralized management hub that gives you a comprehensive view of the status and performance of your switch infrastructure, allowing for better network understanding and identification of potential issues.   Some of the benefits of the new Switching Overview feature include:    Enhanced monitoring experience: The new feature is designed to consolidate wide-ranging alerts, metrics, and overall switch infrastructure health into a condensed bird’s eye view. Reduced click-time: You no longer need to browse through an assortment of dashboard pages. View and monitor your switching network with efficiency and speed. Ability to forecast future network needs: Understand your switching network’s capacity and current utilization to better predict and plan for network expansion needs.   The Switching Overview panel consists of:     Switch-specific alerts Connected total switch clients Events and errors PoE and data usage Active switchport capacity and utilization       Beta Feedback   We'd love to hear your feedback on Switching Overview, so please try it out and let us know what you think! As with all our beta releases, your feedback will help us improve the feature and make it even better for future use. Simply click on the “Give feedback about this info” button at the bottom of the panel (see image below).                 How do I enable this new feature?   This brand new feature is now available for opt-in via the Early Access Program by Meraki. You can navigate to Organization -> Early Access and select opt-in to the Switching Overview feature.   The new Switching Overview panel will then be found by clicking on the Switch card of the Health widget under Network-wide -> Clients page (see below):           Additional information can be found in our Meraki Documentation.   Thanks for checking it out!   ... View more

We are excited to announce the release of our new Meraki Health Organization Alerts page, available today (1/26/23) via early access! This much requested feature results in an incredible efficiency boost, reducing click-time and greatly increasing org-wide visibility.   What does it do?    The new Org Alerts page aims to:   Promote Efficiency -  centralizing all dashboard alerts of your organization in a single pane Save time - filter and sort alerts to quickly identify critical issues Increase ease of use - simplified navigation and improved UI allows you to dismiss irrelevant alerts and reduce excess noise   New Organization Alerts Page     How do I enable this?   In the dashboard, navigate to Organization > Early Access. Opt-in by clicking the toggle button for New Organization Alert Page & Alert hub Enhancements.       How do I access the page?  Once enabled via early access you can access the page by navigating to Organization >> Alerts.    Additional information on this feature can be found in Meraki Documentation   ... View more