Special Access Roles – Building the Dashboard

Guest Ambassador, Camera-only, and Monitor-only administrator roles are unique types of network-level permissions focused on use cases that can be granted to provide only limited access to networks within an organization. These are useful for larger organizations that may wish to provide […]

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User Role Policies – Cisco Storage Security

You can define user role policies to limit the switch resources that the user can access, or to limit access to interfaces, VLANs, and VSANs. User role policies are constrained by the rules defined for the role. For example, if you define […]

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Defining Administrators and Privileges – Building the Dashboard

For organizations with multiple administrators that require access to the Dashboard, Meraki has designed the Dashboard such that an organization can designate various administrative roles with different permission levels (from the Organization > Administrators page). This allows administrative rights to be scoped […]

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New Organization Alert Page & Alert Hub Enhancement – Building a Scalable Foundation with Dashboard – Cisco Meraki

Use this toggle to enable the Organization Alerts page, shown in Figure 3-11, as well as the network-level Alert Hub. The Organization Alerts page provides a consolidated view of alerts for all platforms deployed across the organization. To access this page, navigate […]

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Dashboard Early Access Program – Building a Scalable Foundation with Dashboard – Cisco Meraki

Meraki is continuously working to enhance the design of the Dashboard to improve performance and usability for its customers. This effort includes developing new features and pages to improve the Dashboard experience. You can explore the latest features and pages opting in […]

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SAML Roles – Building the Dashboard

To more easily manage administrative access to the Dashboard, Meraki has also implemented both IdP-Initiated and SP-Initiated SAML 2.0 support for Dashboard administrators. This allows for simple and easy management of administrative permissions for large numbers of Dashboard users by leveraging an […]

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Detailed Firmware Status and Security – Building a Scalable Foundation with Dashboard – Cisco Meraki

You can find more detailed visibility regarding firmware security and status across the organization by navigating to Organization > Firmware Upgrades and clicking the All Networks tab, shown in Figure 3-5. This page provides a detailed overview of every network within the […]

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Automated Summary Reports – Building the Dashboard

Another powerful reporting tool available in the Dashboard is the ability to generate summary reports for either individual networks or groups of networks (or devices), up to and including the entire organization (as shown in Figure 2-11). Unlike other reporting methods, summary […]

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Maintaining Control of the Dashboard – Building the Dashboard

Now that you have created a new organization and claimed devices and licenses to it, it’s imperative to take a moment to reflect on some best practices for maintaining access to and control of your Meraki platform: • Keep at least two […]

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Tagging for Administrative Privileges – Building the Dashboard

Network tagging can be used to easily help scope administrative permissions (discussed in the previous section) within the Dashboard across networks. Through the use of network tags, you can easily group networks and then use those groupings to assign administrative permissions to […]

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