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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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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 […]
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 […]

SNMP and SNMP Traps – Building the Dashboard
SNMP is also enabled from the Logging section of the Network-wide > General page. However, SNMP reporting is a bit unique compared to email alerts, webhooks, and syslog reporting. With SNMP, you have the option to either poll devices directly at their […]

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 […]

Cloud/Back-end Architecture – Cisco Meraki Cloud Architecture Basics
All Meraki customer management data is hosted in data centers spread around the world across five geographic regions. Each region contains a pair of geographically separated, independent data centers that replicate customer management data, as well as Meraki service data such as […]

Device to Cloud Communication – Cisco Meraki Cloud Architecture Basics
Cloud management of Meraki devices involves bidirectional communication between the Meraki device and the Meraki Cloud Controller over a secure, AES256-encrypted HTTPS tunnel, as shown in Figure 1-3. All Meraki devices contain hardware cryptography chips and utilize X.509 certificate authentication when building […]

Meraki Insight Alerts – Building the Dashboard
An additional option offered by Meraki, known as Meraki Insight, is capable of more advanced monitoring and alerting than the methods previously discussed. Meraki Insight is designed specifically to provide advanced monitoring capabilities for both general connectivity and uplink health as well […]
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 […]