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I ended up using /organizations/{organizationId}/devices/uplinksLossAndLatency The maximum look back is 60 days so I didn't even bother with looking backwards, I'm just recording current data going forward. It returns loss and latency data, per device and per wan, in 1 min intervals. A single call will return 5 mins worth of data for every device in every network in the org which is great. I made a windows service that makes 1 call every 5 min and stored the data in a sqlite DB. I then wrote a separate app to interrogate the DB with filters and generate reports.

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unfortunately that endpoint doesn't seem to work. I did a quick test from the dev portal and i just get "Failed to fetch" At the moment I am using /organizations/{organizationId}/devices/uplinksLossAndLatency from platform - devices - uplinks. It returns this; { "networkId": "N_24329156", "serial": "Q234-ABCD-5678", "uplink": "wan1", "ip": "1.2.3.4", "timeSeries": [ { "ts": "2019-01-31T18:46:13Z", "lossPercent": 5.3, "latencyMs": 194.9 } which is nice - i get all data for every device and wan link for every network all in 1 single call...buuuuut on checking the data, I noticed it was saying 0% loss for a netowrk that had been down for 3 hours 😞 so not sure its reliable.

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sry only just saw your reply. for this one i would have to constantly poll every network every minute for ever Get Organization Uplinks Statuses - Meraki Dashboard API v1 - Cisco Meraki Developer Hub Get Device Loss And Latency History - Meraki Dashboard API v1 - Cisco Meraki Developer Hub this one might be doable, but id have to call with a 1 min resolution which will return a huge amount which i guess isnt an issue. then i would have to compare the loss % from both mx devices at each time interval to see if there was a downtime or not (both mx's down) might have to give it a go as dont see another option

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on further investigation, my above idea sucks. I just noticed this in the dashboard... so downtime metric DOES exist!! and there even is a download button to get the info in a csv....if I could just download those programmatically that would be great. I cant find a relevant api endpoint tho 😞

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I just found this - /networks/{networkId}/insight/applications/{applicationId}/healthByTime [ { "startTs": "2018-02-11T00:00:00Z", "endTs": "2018-05-12T00:00:00Z", "wanGoodput": 20000000, "lanGoodput": 100000000, "wanLatencyMs": 10.1, "lanLatencyMs": 3.2, "wanLossPercent": 0.2, "lanLossPercent": 0, "responseDuration": 210, "sent": 1000, "recv": 5000, "numClients": 2 } ] In theory i could call this for a certain time resolution and then look at the wan loss % to decide if it was up or down. Seems like a very clunky way of doing it tho 😕 going to be a metric crap-ton of calls

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Hello, I've been asked if I can get WAN uptime stats for all our networks. Ideally, get historical data, but if that's not possible, at least setup something to record live info so we have data going forward. I cant find any endpoints that look like they have what i need. Am I missing one? thanks

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I look after several hundred APs - I see the 100mbps issue all the time. It's almost always a cable issue and fixed by replacing the cable. The "low power mode" is a bug - i suddenly started seeing it on dozens of APs - I asked support what was going on and they said it was a known problem, something to do with the CDP messages that they use to communicate their status. Its annoying but not really a problem, since its not really in low power mode, and even if it was - that mode doesn't actually do anything. I think it turns of bluetooth or something, but it still operates at full tx power etc - wifi not rly effected.

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we have about 70 sites. We used a template to begin with when all we had were APs, but when we added switches and MX's we tried to figure out what the impact of using a combined template was and decided it was best to just not use them. We use API scripting now if we want to make a change to all of them. But to be honest it is very rare that we want to apply the exact same change to every site so changes are often manual in the dashboard.

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If you are talking about VLANs, yes you can use the API, the specific endpoint will depend if you have configured the VLANs on switches or MX's

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oh wow, cheers. I wonder why the hell they leave it in then? should remove it from the guide or at least leave a note warning that its inaccurate! When they say a new API - do they mean the whole thing is unreliable or just specifically the wifi stats endpoints?

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API_KEY = security.MERAKI_API_KEY_LIVE BASE_URL = "https://api.meraki.com/api/v1" HEADERS = { "X-Cisco-Meraki-API-Key": API_KEY, "Content-Type": "application/json" } def main(): url = f"{BASE_URL}/networks/L_00000000000000/wireless/connectionStats" params = { "ssids": 0, "timespan": 86400 } response = requests.get(url, headers=HEADERS, params=params) print(url) print(f"Response: {response.status_code}") print(f"Response: {response.text}") if __name__ == "__main__": main() Response: 200 Response: {"assoc":2562,"auth":4161,"dhcp":55,"dns":150,"success":37457} Process finished with exit code 0

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Hello, I'm having a bit of a weird issue. I am trying to get network connection stats from the API but the return data does not match what's in the dashboard, or the data I get if i use developer.cisco.com. https://api.meraki.com/api/v1/networks/L_0000000000000000/wireless/connectionStats From my python script; timespan 86400 ssids 0 response - {"assoc":2550,"auth":4165,"dhcp":55,"dns":150,"success":37306} Using exactly the same parameters on developer.com I get; { "assoc": 73, "auth": 483, "dhcp": 2, "dns": 2, "success": 6779 } The dashboard matches developer.com So what's going on with my script? I broke it down to the most basic call to avoid any kind of data handling error when doing multiple calls. It makes a single call, with hard coded network ID and parameters. I am printing the return data directly with print(f"Response: {response.text}") I cant figure out whats happening 😕

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Hello, I have a weird WiFi issue I cant explain and need some help. We have two SSIDs - one public and one internal. The internal SSID uses Enterprise with RADIUS authentication. The public wifi is just password auth. These have been working for a long time, but today when walking around, I noticed I couldn't connect to the public, but connecting to internal was ok. As I moved a bit more about the factory I suddenly was able to connect to the public again. It wasn't a signal issue, the SSID was always there about about 60dB - it was just a connection problem. Do testing, it seems like I could connect on one specific spot, but if i moved 5 meters or so I lost the ability (Internal was always ok everywhere). Long story short, I did a lot of tests walking all over and initially thought maybe it was related to specific APs but I think my actual location or AP was just a coincidence and the issue was in fact just random and it didn't matter where I was. The one exception was a break room that had its own AP inside - every test for public failed in there, internal was ok. Everywhere else I tested, sometimes public worked, sometimes not. Tested on a laptop and 3 or 4 mobile phones - all had the same results. I checked the DHCP server which is hosted on our MX - pool is a /22 and was 70% available. I don't know how long the issue has been going on for, we have recently updated all our APs from MR 33's to MR46's. All APs share the same config on the same RF profile. The internal and public SSIDs are both broadcast on both bands on every AP. Any ideas?

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