Hi,

Just to add a +1 to this: we also are interested in Meraki support and are available for testing features.

Ahmed.

Le dim. 13 sept. 2020, à 12 h 24, Adam Armstrong via observium <observium@observium.org> a écrit :

 

> we run pretty much every product of Meraki somewhere.

 

F in chat

 

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Adam Armstrong via observium wrote on 11.09.2020 19:24:

It’s not neighbours, it’s inventory. These are downstream components of the controller.

No, this is exactly network attached neighbors (to this controller).
Inventory is modules inside device and/or stacked devices.

There
are even remote ip addresses and interfaces (and remote hostname, platform, sysname)
through which these devices are connected.
All as for other neighbors protocols :)

Example:

MERAKI-CLOUD-CONTROLLER-MIB::devMac.2.2.0.96.5.120 = Hex-STRING: 02 02 00 60 05 78
MERAKI-CLOUD-CONTROLLER-MIB::devName.2.2.0.96.5.120 = STRING: Health Center, SE
MERAKI-CLOUD-CONTROLLER-MIB::devStatus.2.2.0.96.5.120 = INTEGER: offline(0)
MERAKI-CLOUD-CONTROLLER-MIB::devContactedAt.2.2.0.96.5.120 = STRING: 2011-6-9,20:26:14.0,+0:0
MERAKI-CLOUD-CONTROLLER-MIB::devClientCount.2.2.0.96.5.120 = INTEGER: 0
MERAKI-CLOUD-CONTROLLER-MIB::devMeshStatus.2.2.0.96.5.120 = INTEGER: gateway(0)
MERAKI-CLOUD-CONTROLLER-MIB::devPublicIp.2.2.0.96.5.120 = IpAddress: 98.173.209.211
MERAKI-CLOUD-CONTROLLER-MIB::devSerial.2.2.0.96.5.120 = STRING: VRT-2207619483000
MERAKI-CLOUD-CONTROLLER-MIB::devProductCode.2.2.0.96.5.120 = STRING: MR16-HW
MERAKI-CLOUD-CONTROLLER-MIB::devProductDescription.2.2.0.96.5.120 = STRING: Meraki MR16 Cloud Managed AP

 

It’d not make sense in neighbours, neighbours are physical links.

 

Adam.

 

From: observium <observium-bounces@observium.org> On Behalf Of Mike Stupalov via observium
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Subject: Re: [Observium] Inventorying Merakis

 

Hi,

 I think this is more useful as "Neighbours" discovery (like LLDP/CDP)..

Lars Joergensen via observium wrote on 10.09.2020 10:58:

Hi Mike,

 

There’s more in the controller. A few examples:

 

MERAKI-CLOUD-CONTROLLER-MIB::networkName.45.55.105.66.69.97.111.101 = STRING: INMUM

MERAKI-CLOUD-CONTROLLER-MIB::devName.104.58.30.30.159.8 = STRING: INMUM-MX-01

MERAKI-CLOUD-CONTROLLER-MIB::devClientCount.104.58.30.30.103.216 = INTEGER: 21

MERAKI-CLOUD-CONTROLLER-MIB::devSerial.104.58.30.30.103.216 = STRING: Q2KN-XXXX-XXXX

MERAKI-CLOUD-CONTROLLER-MIB::devProductCode.104.58.30.30.103.216 = STRING: MX64-HW

MERAKI-CLOUD-CONTROLLER-MIB::devProductDescription.104.58.30.30.103.216 = STRING: Meraki MX64 Cloud Managed Router

MERAKI-CLOUD-CONTROLLER-MIB::vlanNumber.105.55.67.49.117.98.111.101.1 = INTEGER: 1

MERAKI-CLOUD-CONTROLLER-MIB::vlanNumber.105.55.67.49.117.98.111.101.15 = INTEGER: 15

MERAKI-CLOUD-CONTROLLER-MIB::vlanNumber.105.55.67.49.117.98.111.101.16 = INTEGER: 16

MERAKI-CLOUD-CONTROLLER-MIB::vlanNumber.105.55.67.49.117.98.111.101.510 = INTEGER: 510

MERAKI-CLOUD-CONTROLLER-MIB::vlanName.105.55.67.49.117.98.111.101.1 = STRING: Data

MERAKI-CLOUD-CONTROLLER-MIB::vlanName.105.55.67.49.117.98.111.101.15 = STRING: Voice

MERAKI-CLOUD-CONTROLLER-MIB::vlanName.105.55.67.49.117.98.111.101.16 = STRING: Misc

MERAKI-CLOUD-CONTROLLER-MIB::vlanName.105.55.67.49.117.98.111.101.510 = STRING: Guest

But, as Adam said, pulling it looks like an absolute shitfest of a nightmare. I will get our inventory guys to pull via the Meraki dashboard APIs instead.

 

 

Lars

 

 

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Adam Armstrong via observium wrote on 09.09.2020 18:06:


I think he means SNMP to the Meraki controller, not to the individual devices.

I also mean Meraki controller, answer same.
I have access to any Meraki device(s) ;)



 

In general supporting wireless stuff is an absolute shitfest of a nightmare, but maybe pulling just the inventory wouldn’t be too horrible.

 

Adam.

 

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Subject: Re: [Observium] Inventorying Merakis

 



Lars Joergensen via observium wrote on 09.09.2020 16:17:



Hi Mike,

 

Meraki does provide full SNMP access to their dashboard – that’s what I added into Observium. It’s just that Observium doesn’t seem to know about it. I can provide the MIB if interested?

Meraki have very-very limited snmp support, there no inventory information inside.
We are already detecting and monitoring everything that is possible for these devices.




 

They also have an extensive API, but I guess SNMP is more in line with what observium does.

 

 

Lars

 

From: Mike Stupalov <mike@stupalov.ru> On Behalf Of Mike Stupalov
Sent: 9. september 2020 13:55
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Subject: Re: [Observium] Inventorying Merakis

 

Hi,

Lars Joergensen via observium wrote on 09.09.2020 14:11:




Hi

 

We have a bunch of Merakis in Observium, and we got the nice graphs and stuff. Then somebody asked for serial numbers for inventory purposes, and … they’re not there.

 

I did an SNMP walk on a single Meraki device, and that’s really sparse, explaining the lack of info in Observium. Then I added the Meraki dashboard (available at snmp.meraki.com), and let Observium have a look at that. It basically told me that it resides in San Francisco. Doing an SNMP walk on that does reveal all the necessary info, though, so it is there.

 

Any plans on parsing the Meraki dashboard into Observium and get info on devices that way? If not, we can pull the serials from elsewhere, but it would be cool to know if it’s coming.

Parsing any dashboard (any web page) for any device completely pointless occupation.
These pages are dynamic, they can change at the whim of the manufacturer.

The only possible option (besides snmp) any common (documented) API.
But as I know, Meraki doesn't even support that.





 


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