Chapter 6 Meraki

Question 1

What are the features/APIs of Meraki

Answer 1

• Location Scanning
• MV Sense APIs
• External Captive Portal
• WebHook Alert APIs

Question 2

What does the location scanning API

Answer 2

It’s an HTTP POST method configured on the Meraki Dashboard providing client location information (GPS, X/Y) based on Meraki Access Point (AP) map placement and client signal strength.

Question 3

What are Meraki’s External Captive Portal APIs

Answer 3

WiFi authentication of user through a custom portal, there are 2 methods to work with Meraki’s captive portal

Question 4

What are the 2 methods to work with Meraki’s captive portal

Answer 4

• Click-through → Client connects to the AP and it’s shown the captive portal, for authorization si redirected to the base_grant_url and after after authorization against the cloud the client is given access
• Sign-On → Client connects to the AP and it’s shown the captive portal from where the client sends username and password to Meraki which authenticates them against Radius or Meraki auth server.

Question 5

Cisco Meraki Webhook alerts

Answer 5

It allows Meraki’s dashboard to send HTTP requests to a specified URL, this alerts are customizable.

The configuration of a webhook alert happens on the dashboard where you will configure an url to which Meraki will send requests, at the destination you need to have a server that processes this requests

Question 6

Meraki MV Sense APIs

Answer 6

They are APIs working for Meraki’s cameras it’s composed of 2 types of APIs:
- REST
- MQTT → IoT protocol based on publisher/subscriber model where a broker handles the communication between publisher and subscriber and distribute the correct communication to the subscribers

Question 7

Meraki APIs header

Answer 7

header = {
‘x-Cisco-Meraki-API-Key’: merakiKey,
‘Accept’: “application/json”,
‘Content-Type’: “application/json”
}