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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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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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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Dashboard Email Alerts – Building the Dashboard

All Dashboard networks can be configured to generate email alerts for a variety of event types. These range from more generic, network-wide alerts, such as a configuration change or network usage/utilization alert, to more specific alerts, such as when a gateway access […]

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Cisco Meraki Cloud Architecture Basics

This chapter provides an introduction to the Meraki Cloud architecture, including an overview of Meraki’s distributed hosting services around the world that enable the Dashboard and cloud management to function securely and reliably. We also take a look at how the Dashboard […]

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Creating an Organization – Building the Dashboard

Before you can create any networks or configurations, you first need to create a Dashboard organization. Go to the Meraki Dashboard home page, https://dashboard.meraki.com, and click Create an Account. Then, select a Dashboard hosting region, which will affect the data storage and […]

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Creating a Network – Building the Dashboard

Immediately after you create an organization, you are presented with the option to either create a network in the new organization or to add devices to the organization inventory. For purposes of this discussion, choose to create a network. That way, you’ll […]

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Verification of Port Security – Cisco Storage Security

Port security can be verified using the commands shown next. The show port-security database commands display the configured port security information as shown in Example 20-8. Example 20-8 Verification of Port Security Database switch# show port-security database ————————————————————————–———–VSAN Logging-in Entity Logging-in Point […]

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Fabric Binding – Cisco Storage Security

The fabric binding feature helps prevent unauthorized switches from joining the fabric or disrupting current fabric operations. It ensures ISLs are enabled only between specified switches in the fabric binding configuration. Fabric binding is configured on a per-VSAN basis. It uses the […]

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