Meraki Visibility Dashboard

A consolidated dashboard that pulls and displays data from various Meraki monitoring APIs. If the wireless health drops to a pre-defined threshold value, email alerts.

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The following diagram describes the PoV high level design.

Contacts

• Charles Llewellyn (chllewel@cisco.com)

Solution Components

• Meraki MR
• Meraki MS
• Python 3.7

Prerequisite

• Meraki - Enable API Access - enable API and get API key in Meraki Dashboard.

  1. Login to Meraki Dashboard.
  2. Go to "Organization" -> "Settings".
  3. Scroll down to the bottom and check "Enable access to the Cisco Meraki Dashboard API", then click "Save Changes".
  4. Click your email at the top right corner -> "My profile".
  5. Click "Generate new API key", copy your API key in the pop-up window, check the box and click "Done".
  6. Paste and keep the API key in a safe location.

• SMTP Server You may set up your own SMTP server or any provided service. In this prototype, Gmail is used. Please check here for instruction.

Installation

1. Clone this repository by git clone <this repo>.

2. Optionally, create a Python 3 virtual environment.

python3 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate

3. Install the dependencies.

pip install -r requirement.txt

4. Run the Flask application.

export FLASK_APP=app.py
flask run

5. Access the dashboard at http://localhost:5000.

Run in Docker

1. Clone this repository by git clone <this repo>.

2. Go to the root directory containing Dockerfile.

3. Build the container.

docker build -t meraki-visibility-dashboard .

4. Run the container.

docker run -d -p 5555:5555 meraki-visibility-dashboard

5. Access the dashboard at http://localhost:5555.

License

Provided under Cisco Sample Code License, for details see LICENSE

Code of Conduct

Our code of conduct is available here

Contributing

See our contributing guidelines here