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CWNE Essays
To help prevent plagiarism, there has been a growing trend to publish the essays you submitted for your CWNE. So, I’m joining and publishing mine here. Essay #1 – Low Power Mode Background An increase in Wi-Fi complaints frequently occurred following power disruptions of the PSE. A cursory analysis revealed the access points were running…
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Issues Deploying Cisco 9176 Access Points
I recently had an issue when deploying some new Cisco 9176 Meraki cloud managed access points. The access points connect to Cisco Catalyst 9300 switches. Deployment went as expected without any hiccups. That is until the site experienced a power outage. During the outage the switches rebooted and of course, the access points did as…
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Merakiwifi.app
Disclaimer – When using tools of this nature it is strongly recommended to create a separate, read-only API key. There is no need to risk your API key being compromised and allowing a bad actor to perform irreparable harm to your organization. While this tool open states it does not store API keys, I find…
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Issues binding new network to configuration template
This issue began occurring recently in the “New” Meraki dashboard view. The problem does not occur in the “Old” view. Recently our install team was attempting to create a new network and had issues when binding it to the template. The issue can be seen in the screenshots below. When attempting to create the network,…
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Meraki Traffic Shaping with Configuration Templates…Unseen Categories
This post will be an exploration in to traffic shaping with templates in the Meraki dashboard. More specifically, how the categories are displayed compared to standalone networks. While recently troubleshooting an issue with an application that uses Web RTC traffic, it was discovered there are some differences in the way traffic categories are presented when…