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Adding and Configuring Cisco Meraki Discovery
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Adding and Configuring Cisco Meraki Discovery

Owned by Uday Dubey (Deactivated)
Nov 30, 2022

Enabling the discovery of Cisco Meraki provides visibility into your Cisco Meraki SD-WAN elements, for example:

  • Wireless access points
  • Switches
  • Routers
  • Cameras
  • Phones

NetMRI classifies Meraki cameras and phones as end hosts and other Meraki devices as network devices.

Note

NetMRI does not save configs from Meraki devices. As device components, it collects only chassis. For interfaces collected from Meraki devices, NetMRI displays only the enabled or disabled interface status in the Admin Status and Operational Status fields.

NetMRI uses Meraki API version 1.

To add and configure Cisco Meraki discovery, complete the following:

  1. Make sure that you enable SDN and SD-WAN polling in Settings icon > Setup > SDN/SD-WAN Polling. For more information, see Configuring SDN and SD-WAN Polling Settings.
  2. Click the Settings icon > Setup > Discovery Settings > SDN.
  3. Click New.
  4. In SDN Type, select Cisco Meraki.
  5. Complete the following:
    • Config Name: Specify a short and unique name for the current Cisco Meraki configuration.
    • Network Interface: Select the interface that will be used to access the device. In parentheses next to the interface name is displayed the name of the associated collector. As Cisco Meraki infrastructure may have overlapping IP addresses in different network views, you should explicitly specify a network interface exposed to the internet.
    • Protocol: This field is populated as HTTPS automatically and is not editable.
    • Address: Enter the hostname or IP address of the Cisco Meraki Dashboard API. By default, it is api.meraki.com.

    • API Key: Access key required to use Cisco APIs.

    • (Optional) Maximum Requests per Second: Specify the maximum number of HTTP requests from NetMRI to Cisco Meraki SDN per second to avoid overload.
    • (Optional) Collect Devices in Offline Status: Specify if you want to discover Cisco Meraki devices that are offline.
    • (Optional) Enable Discovery Blackout: Select the checkbox and then click its Scheduling icon. For more information, see Defining Blackout Periods.
  6. Click Test Connection to check if the device is reachable and the provided credentials are correct. The connection test results are also written to the Syslog.
  7. Click Add or Add & Discover.