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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Global Overview – Building the Dashboard

One additional Meraki Dashboard feature to be aware of regarding the creation and monitoring of multiple Dashboard organizations is the new Global Overview page (formerly referred to as MSP view), shown in Figure 2-13. This special overview is available to administrator accounts […]

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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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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 […]

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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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Data Security and Retention – Cisco Meraki Cloud Architecture Basics

Meraki’s data storage and retention policies are designed to provide secure storage for data uploaded to and used by the Meraki Dashboard across all regions of the world. As discussed in the previous section, all data transferred between Meraki devices and the […]

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