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AndreasE · ‎11-21-2018

Hi Nolan, I got the message (i.e. "Cisco or Meraki perspective first"). But as I mentioned, an MSP/ISP sometimes buys gear and/or licenses for stock. You simply cannot bill a Customer for gear/licenses on your stock which he cannot use before "ready for use" date. Do you know by chance what kind of API has been implemented in the Connectwise solution? With Kind Regards, AndreasE

AndreasE · ‎11-21-2018

Hi Tyler, you mentioned that " Connectwise Unite product uses the Meraki API". I would appreciate if you could tell me which of the three APIs (https://create.meraki.io) you were thinking of. And especially if you've meant the "Dashboard API" (https://create.meraki.io/guides/dashboard-api/), which API function is used. Kind Regards, AndreasE

AndreasE · ‎11-21-2018

Hi, I'm working for a MSP (specifically, an ISP). That means we're selling Managed Services based on MX appliances and other Meraki devices to our Customers. One internal task is billing, of course: That means once the service is ready for use, we need to charge it to the Customer on a monthly basis. But in order to get this done as accurate as possible, we need to know exactly the very first day when a Meraki device was "ready for use", e.g. first seen in the Meraki Dashboard or first contact to the Meraki controller. (The day after that date is usually referred to as the "Billing Start Date".) Until now, I did not find any play in the Meraki Dashboard nor any command within the Dashboard API that I could use to create a report for my billing department. Who can help with any kind of advice, idea, whatsoever? Rgds, Andreas E.

AndreasE · ‎10-25-2018

Hi Blake, tx for your interesting reply. I will copy it to our BT-internal OneNote Notebook where we always try to keep such "tipps&tricks" for other team mates. I myself have always used a very restrictive set of characters for Meraki tags, i.e. "[a-z][a-z_]*" (if you're fine with a "regexp"). That said, UPPERCASE vs lowercase didn't play a role for me when searching for tags. Rgds, Andreas.

AndreasE · ‎10-22-2018

My Customer and I have had the idea to copy the MAC address of the VDSL router of a given site into the "NOTES" field of the MX appliance. But MAC addresses do contain UPPERCASE hex letters "A" to "F" sometimes. And funny enough you cannot search for these in the "Search Dashboard" function! After an hour of trial and error, I have found the following that I'd like to share witch the community: DO NOT USE ANY UPPERCASE LETTER IN THE SEARCH DASHBOARD FUNCTION! You will not get a single match when searching... I have reproduced this behavior on two different organizations and with a dozen of systematic test case, it's clearly a bug in my eyes. Therefore, I have both opened a case plus used "Make a Wish" in order to get rid of this. (Try yourself or ask me for a set of screenshots in a PDF.)

AndreasE · ‎07-05-2018

Hi Philip, I'm not sure if we're that far away from each other. I still like the concept of "Templates" which should include both inheritance (keep identical methods identical and have the same number and type of attributes) as well as deviation. If you're looking at "Add a Local VLAN", you can see both: "same" vs "unique". And I was just wondering why on earth Meraki didn't "translate" that brilliant idea to Static Routes. Anway. My last resort workaround is "Configuration Sync", i.e. I still maintain my templates, but insert a new layer of "typical network" which is the only network that will be bound to the template. Whenever I make a change to the template, this is inherited into the "typical network" and as an additional step I can "config sync" from that "typical network" into any real network which cares a certain network tag (e.g. the name of the Template). Hopefully this works and is a long-term way forward, let's see.

AndreasE · ‎07-03-2018

Hi Philip, tx for your quick reply. But if you're looking at "Add a Local VLAN" functionality, this behaves quite similar as I would have hoped here, too: You can create a kind of "Super-VLAN" in the template and then use Dashboard API "Update VLAN" Scripting [not "Add VLAN", of course!] in order to refine to a subset (i.e. partition the Super-VLAN into "real" local VLANs). It is in the same mask of the Dashboard and the Dashboard Rest API functionality reflects that similarity, too. Therefore, I have hoped to "Add Static LAN Super-routes" with Dashboard and then use the API to partition these again. No chance right now, I understood. But even worse, you can only "Add Static LAN route" at all if your network is NOT currently bound to any template, and if you already have added a static LAN route to your network, it will loose it once bound to any template! And this is really crazy and renders the whole "template" functionality quite inconfigurable or unusable for large-scale networks. Rgds, Andreas.

AndreasE · ‎07-03-2018

I have created two static routes (as per https://n213.meraki.com/CT-Bronze/n/sqKFBbvd/manage/support?utf8=%E2%9C%93&support_magic_search_box=&kb_article=&search_term=4171) in one of my templates for a live Customer called "CT-Silver". But these static routes are still a superset of the network address (and mask), i.e. every site (= small network) needs its own subset of that static route. Neither the Dashboard itself (settings can be viewed but not changed) nor the Dashboard API {"errors":["Static routes do not support template overrides"]} allow me to override the CT's static route with a more specific one or to create an individual static route at all. PS: This is the kind of curl command I'm trying to use via Dashboard API: .\curl -L -H "X-Cisco-Meraki-API-Key:6f3***73f7" -H "Content-Type:application/json" -X PUT --data-binary "{\"subnet\":\"10.235.33.0/24\"}" "https://api.meraki.com/api/v0/networks/N_682~~~331/staticRoutes/0e4~~~1ce4"

AndreasE · ‎06-11-2018

Hi HodyCrouch, tx for your reply. The first recommendation indeed solved my issue. (The second probably wouold do so as well, but then I would need to create 80 short files which makes it much more effort.) Tx again, AndreasE

AndreasE · ‎06-08-2018

I tried to use the following command from both .bat and .ps1 types of batch files (Windows CMD and Powershell), but they always throw error "Bad request: There was a problem in the JSON you submitted": \bin>.\curl.exe --verbose -H "X-Cisco-Meraki-API-Key:~~~ed4c95773f7" -H "Content-Type:application/json" -X PUT --data-binary '{"applianceIp":"172.25.240.49","subnet":"172.25.240.48/29"}' "https://api.meraki.com/api/v0/networks/N_682~~~86331/vlans/801" * Trying 209.206.57.36... * TCP_NODELAY set * Connected to api.meraki.com (209.206.57.36) port 443 (#0) * ALPN, offering h2 * ALPN, offering http/1.1 * successfully set certificate verify locations: * CAfile: ~~~\bin\curl-ca-bundle.crt CApath: none * TLSv1.2 (OUT), TLS handshake, Client hello (1): * TLSv1.2 (IN), TLS handshake, Server hello (2): * NPN, negotiated HTTP1.1 * TLSv1.2 (IN), TLS handshake, Certificate (11): * TLSv1.2 (IN), TLS handshake, Server key exchange (12): * TLSv1.2 (IN), TLS handshake, Server finished (14): * TLSv1.2 (OUT), TLS handshake, Client key exchange (16): * TLSv1.2 (OUT), TLS change cipher, Client hello (1): * TLSv1.2 (OUT), TLS handshake, Next protocol (67): * TLSv1.2 (OUT), TLS handshake, Finished (20): * TLSv1.2 (IN), TLS handshake, Finished (20): * SSL connection using TLSv1.2 / ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 * ALPN, server did not agree to a protocol * Server certificate: * subject: OU=Domain Control Validated; CN=*.meraki.com * start date: Aug 16 20:21:40 2016 GMT * expire date: Sep 16 20:57:39 2019 GMT * subjectAltName: host "api.meraki.com" matched cert's "*.meraki.com" * issuer: C=US; ST=Arizona; L=Scottsdale; O=GoDaddy.com, Inc.; OU=http://certs.godaddy.com/repository/; CN=Go Daddy Secure Certificate Authority - G2 * SSL certificate verify ok. > PUT /api/v0/networks/N_682~~~86331/vlans/801 HTTP/1.1 > Host: api.meraki.com > User-Agent: curl/7.60.0 > Accept: */* > X-Cisco-Meraki-API-Key:~~~ed4c95773f7 > Content-Type:application/json > Content-Length: 53 > * upload completely sent off: 53 out of 53 bytes < HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request < Server: nginx < Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2018 14:54:34 GMT < Content-Type: */*; charset=utf-8 < Content-Length: 58 < Connection: keep-alive < X-Request-Id: f209630c73f04174371cabe2f2d4ed74 < X-Runtime: 0.001298 < X-Rack-Cache: invalidate, pass < Bad request: There was a problem in the JSON you submitted * Connection #0 to host api.meraki.com left intact When using from Postman, everything works fine, so I cannot deduct the error reason from there. With Kind Regards Andreas Englisch

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