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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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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Org-wide Health – Building a Scalable Foundation with Dashboard – Cisco Meraki

The Organization Overview page in your Meraki Dashboard provides a high-level overview of each of the networks contained within the current organization. Its purpose is to elevate data to help you find the “needle in the haystack.” You can expand the network […]

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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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Webhooks – Building the Dashboard

Webhooks are a standard type of alert/trigger that use an HTTP request triggered by an event to log that event to a remote system and trigger some form of action based on the event. They allow for the same alert configurations and […]

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Alert Hubs – Building the Dashboard

When working in a large organization with the potential for multiple simultaneous alerts, it can be helpful to have a single location to view only the most important information. This is where the alert hub and organization alert hub mentioned at the […]

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Firmware Management and Lifecycle – Cisco Meraki Cloud Architecture Basics

Meraki strives to provide simple management of firmware for all devices across every product line. As a part of this effort, firmware upgrades to the latest Stable or Stable Release Candidate firmware may be automatically scheduled by Meraki for customer networks to […]

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Port Security – Cisco Storage Security

All switches in the Cisco MDS 9000 Series Switches provide port security features that reject intrusion attempts and report these intrusions to the administrator. Typically, any Fibre Channel device in a SAN can attach to any SAN switch port and access SAN […]

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