topic Re: Access Manager in Cloud Networking Platform

Access Manager

rwiesmann — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 11:13:10 GMT

Does anyone already have Access Manager available under Organization > Early Access ?

https://documentation.meraki.com/Access_Manager/Access_Manager_Overview/Architecture_and_Example_Use_Cases

It is documented that it will be rolled out in phases and I am wondering if this phases already started...

Seams to me an interesting approach as there is no external radius needed anymore.

Re: Access Manager

JamesT91 — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 11:35:19 GMT

Just checked half a dozen different Orgs and none have it available yet under Early Access.

Re: Access Manager

rwiesmann — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 11:37:30 GMT

well, thanks for your feedback...which regions are your orgs?

see if I get some more feedback

Re: Access Manager

JamesT91 — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 11:39:04 GMT

They would all be in Europe 😊

Re: Access Manager

frankvdveen — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 13:29:10 GMT

You can contact Meraki to get it enabled immediately, for testing purposes

Re: Access Manager

martin-lystad — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 16:11:58 GMT

You need to contact Meraki support so they can move you over to a shard that has this enabled. I recommend that you only do this for test orgs.

Re: Access Manager

Philip D'Ath — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 18:41:49 GMT

I can't see it anywhere.

Re: Access Manager

jkukunur — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 01:58:43 GMT

Everyone - Please feel free to submit a request to Meraki support - we will be able to roll it out for some organizations sooner. But for others, it requires some additional work and will be rolling it out in phases (already started for some) and in the next few months, all the organizations should have Access Manager on their Early Access page for opt-in.

Side note: This applies to all orgs irrespective of the geographical location.

Re: Access Manager

rwiesmann — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 07:36:41 GMT

Well thanks for all the feedback.

I will then contact support to have it enabled.

Re: Access Manager

RWelch-USA — Sat, 15 Mar 2025 01:05:25 GMT

I recall somewhere it being said this would be rolled out (eventually).

I didn't reach out to inquire about turning this ON sooner than the scheduled rollout but it's now in my Early Access.

Might be for others too.

Re: Access Manager

JamesT91 — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 08:09:30 GMT

Thanks @RWelch2 it is available on our shard now too, have just opted us in! We did try to ask support about early enablement / being on a shard that has it but that didn't go anywhere.

Re: Access Manager

Philip D'Ath — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 19:24:46 GMT

Jealous. I'm still waiting.

Re: Access Manager

peter.matuska1 — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 11:55:48 GMT

I think. that access manager is only for meraki devices. If I have the cisco AP then no way to integrate it with access manager, right?

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RWelch-USA — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 12:54:08 GMT

@peter.matuska1 The hardware compatibility includes the above devices.

Access Manager Datasheet

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miyakovlev — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 10:40:41 GMT

Anyone made it work? I can't connect to wireless, in logs I see that Access Manager still see MFA as required even though I excluded it from Conditional access for whole app in Entra ID. There are no docs available about it, I would have to turn off MFA because that's a step down in security.

Re: Access Manager

Philip D'Ath — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 19:56:07 GMT

If your authentication methods have been migrated to "Modern" (which you cannot stop), you cannot use username/password authentication. You can only use certificate authentication.

This is because the modern authentication method FORCES the use of MFA. It is not possible to create a conditional access policy to prevent it.

Re: Access Manager

RolandoRicapa47832 — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 22:44:27 GMT

Would be supported CW9162I-x ?
According hardware combability indicate CW91xx, but also Wifi-7 and this device is Wifi 6E.
Any experience testing CW9162I-x with Meraki Cloud Management, and see support ?

Re: Access Manager

rhinkamper1 — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 22:06:19 GMT

I got a quote for Access Manager, and the pricing is ridiculous. The fact that I have to pay the amount of money they quoted me so I can securely do NAC on their hardware is ridiculous.

Re: Access Manager

Philip D'Ath — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 22:29:03 GMT

When I priced it up, it was 1/2 to 1/4 of the total cost of running Cisco ISE in Azure. I was thinking it was very well priced ...

Why don't you do NAC with Microsoft NPS, built into Windows Server?

Re: Access Manager

rhinkamper1 — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 13:53:19 GMT

That is how I do it now, but would rather perform NAC and its management via the Meraki portal. It just seems more efficient and logical to be managed in a "networking portal", and I honestly loathe Microsoft NPS.

Cisco charging an arm and a leg for a glorified radius server that just checks the validity of a certificate and group membership to grant access is ridiculous.