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 to the Dashboard Early Access program.

Pro Tip

You can find detailed, up-to-date information about new features and firmware support for all Meraki products on Meraki’s “Firmware Features” documentation page at https://documentation.meraki.com/Firmware_Features.

To opt in to specific Early Access Dashboard features, go to the Organization > Early Access Program page, shown in Figure 3-8, and use the toggle switches to enable or disable new features in the Dashboard, such as new pages, UI designs, or new features, before they are pushed to the wider Dashboard audience. To give you an idea of what types of enhancements are available through the Early Access Program, the following subsections briefly introduce a few of the currently available options (marked 1 through 4 in Figure 3-8) that are particularly relevant to the day-to-day administrator experience. Keep in mind that new features are always being developed, so this is just a snapshot of the future of the Meraki Dashboard as the time of writing.

Figure 3-8 The Meraki Early Access Program Page, Allowing You to Opt In or Out of New Dashboard Features

Magnetic Design System

Use this toggle to enable the newest iteration of the Dashboard UI, known as Magnetic, which not only overhauls the visual appearance of the Dashboard while maintaining a familiar layout but also enables the options for many more related features and pages within the new UI. This new design also acts as a building block of the new, next-generation unified Cisco UI design coming to modern Cisco dashboards.

New Landing Page

Use this toggle to enable the Organization Summary page, shown in Figures 3-9 and 3-10, which provides an updated and clearer high-level overview of the health of devices across all the networks in your organization. You can view this page after enabling the feature by navigating to Organization > Summary.

Figure 3-9 The Health Section of the New Organization Summary Page Available in the New Landing Page

Figure 3-10 The Networks Section of the New Organization Summary Page for Networks Within the Meraki HQ organization

The Networks section of this page reports a more detailed device health summary for each network, allowing you to quickly assess the status and health of each network across the organization more easily than ever before.

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