Meraki Wireless 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 or ServiceNow tickets are created.

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The following diagram describes the use case overview.

The following diagram describes the PoV high level design.

Contacts

• Alvin Lau ([email protected])
• Felix H Y Lam ([email protected])
• Parag Mehunkar ([email protected])

Solution Components

• Meraki MR
• 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.

• ServiceNow If you do not have ServiceNow, you can request an instance from ServiceNow Developer Program.

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-wireless-visibility-dashboard .

4. Run the container.

docker run -d -p 5000:5000 meraki-wireless-visibility-dashboard

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

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