topic Re: MERAKI BACKUP AND RESTORE in Cloud Networking Platform

MERAKI BACKUP AND RESTORE

ritchie.barral — Wed, 31 Jan 2018 00:59:00 GMT

Hi guys,

Good Morning.

Just want to hear your unique ways about how to backup your configuration in the dashboard to your local drive.

In my situation i had an MX65W with configurations already and then i will have a new MX65W coming to be use in another organization.

My question first is how can i backup my configuration from my existing MX65W so that i can use it to my new MX65W? (But this is answered already by meraki support so they provide me a link : https://documentation.meraki.com/zGeneral_Administration/Templates_and_Config_Sync/Cloning_Network_Settings_with_Configuration_Sync ).

In this link i just saw how to clone from network to another network in one organization.

Now, i want to hear from you guys if you experience this already and how you tried to backup from one organization to another organization.

Thanks in advance.

Re: MERAKI BACKUP AND RESTORE

Philip D'Ath — Wed, 31 Jan 2018 01:27:22 GMT

http://www.ifm.net.nz/cookbooks/meraki-backup.html

Re: MERAKI BACKUP AND RESTORE

ritchie.barral — Wed, 31 Jan 2018 02:17:19 GMT

Thanks @Philip D'Ath , i would try this now.

Re: MERAKI BACKUP AND RESTORE

MilesMeraki — Wed, 31 Jan 2018 08:16:38 GMT

Config Sync and Templates is the native way of replicating configuration from networks which need to be re-used and re-purposed else where.

If you're wanting to back-up the configuration to a local file you can do this via scripting and the API. @Philip D'Ath has created a script for this purpose. I've tested it and works fantastic!

Re: MERAKI BACKUP AND RESTORE

ritchie.barral — Thu, 01 Feb 2018 03:10:10 GMT

I found this erro when executing. I am not really familiar with python.

Re: MERAKI BACKUP AND RESTORE

Philip D'Ath — Thu, 01 Feb 2018 03:15:09 GMT

Try changing these three lines from:

del mySNMP['v2CommunityString']
del mySNMP['hostname']
del mySNMP['port']

to:

if 'v2CommunityString' in mySNMP:

<tab>del mySNMP['v2CommunityString']

if 'hostname' in mySNMP:

<tab>del mySNMP['hostname']

if 'port' in mySNMP:

<tab>del mySNMP['port']

Make sure you replace "tab" with the tab key. Formatting is very important in Python. Let me know if it fixes it so I can update the main script.

Re: MERAKI BACKUP AND RESTORE

ritchie.barral — Thu, 01 Feb 2018 03:40:39 GMT

Thanks @Philip D'Ath I will update you once done executing.

Re: MERAKI BACKUP AND RESTORE

ritchie.barral — Thu, 01 Feb 2018 03:59:03 GMT

C:\Users\Lenovo\Desktop>python meraki-backup.py [API-KEY] "Ardent Network Inc"
Processing network MY NETWORK
Processing network NGKHAI
HTTP Status Code: 404 - No returned data

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\Lenovo\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\lib\site-packages\urllib3\connectionpool.py", line 601, in urlopen
chunked=chunked)
File "C:\Users\Lenovo\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\lib\site-packages\urllib3\connectionpool.py", line 346, in _make_request
self._validate_conn(conn)
File "C:\Users\Lenovo\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\lib\site-packages\urllib3\connectionpool.py", line 850, in _validate_conn
conn.connect()
File "C:\Users\Lenovo\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\lib\site-packages\urllib3\connection.py", line 326, in connect
ssl_context=context)
File "C:\Users\Lenovo\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\lib\site-packages\urllib3\util\ssl_.py", line 329, in ssl_wrap_socket
return context.wrap_socket(sock, server_hostname=server_hostname)
File "C:\Users\Lenovo\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\lib\ssl.py", line 407, in wrap_socket
_context=self, _session=session)
File "C:\Users\Lenovo\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\lib\ssl.py", line 814, in __init__
self.do_handshake()
File "C:\Users\Lenovo\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\lib\ssl.py", line 1068, in do_handshake
self._sslobj.do_handshake()
File "C:\Users\Lenovo\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\lib\ssl.py", line 689, in do_handshake
self._sslobj.do_handshake()
ConnectionAbortedError: [WinError 10053] An established connection was aborted by the software in your host machine

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\Lenovo\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\lib\site-packages\requests\adapters.py", line 440, in send
timeout=timeout
File "C:\Users\Lenovo\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\lib\site-packages\urllib3\connectionpool.py", line 639, in urlopen
_stacktrace=sys.exc_info()[2])
File "C:\Users\Lenovo\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\lib\site-packages\urllib3\util\retry.py", line 357, in increment
raise six.reraise(type(error), error, _stacktrace)
File "C:\Users\Lenovo\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\lib\site-packages\urllib3\packages\six.py", line 685, in reraise
raise value.with_traceback(tb)
File "C:\Users\Lenovo\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\lib\site-packages\urllib3\connectionpool.py", line 601, in urlopen
chunked=chunked)
File "C:\Users\Lenovo\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\lib\site-packages\urllib3\connectionpool.py", line 346, in _make_request
self._validate_conn(conn)
File "C:\Users\Lenovo\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\lib\site-packages\urllib3\connectionpool.py", line 850, in _validate_conn
conn.connect()
File "C:\Users\Lenovo\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\lib\site-packages\urllib3\connection.py", line 326, in connect
ssl_context=context)
File "C:\Users\Lenovo\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\lib\site-packages\urllib3\util\ssl_.py", line 329, in ssl_wrap_socket
return context.wrap_socket(sock, server_hostname=server_hostname)
File "C:\Users\Lenovo\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\lib\ssl.py", line 407, in wrap_socket
_context=self, _session=session)
File "C:\Users\Lenovo\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\lib\ssl.py", line 814, in __init__
self.do_handshake()
File "C:\Users\Lenovo\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\lib\ssl.py", line 1068, in do_handshake
self._sslobj.do_handshake()
File "C:\Users\Lenovo\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\lib\ssl.py", line 689, in do_handshake
self._sslobj.do_handshake()
urllib3.exceptions.ProtocolError: ('Connection aborted.', ConnectionAbortedError(10053, 'An established connection was aborted by the software in your host machine', None, 10053, None))

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "meraki-backup.py", line 184, in <module>
write_ssid_settings(file,apikey,row['id'],suppressprint)
File "meraki-backup.py", line 121, in write_ssid_settings
myRules=meraki.getssidl3fwrules(apikey, networkid, row['number'], suppressprint)[0:-2]
File "C:\Users\Lenovo\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\lib\site-packages\meraki\meraki.py", line 1703, in getssidl3fwrules
dashboard = requests.get(geturl, headers=headers)
File "C:\Users\Lenovo\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\lib\site-packages\requests\api.py", line 72, in get
return request('get', url, params=params, **kwargs)
File "C:\Users\Lenovo\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\lib\site-packages\requests\api.py", line 58, in request
return session.request(method=method, url=url, **kwargs)
File "C:\Users\Lenovo\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\lib\site-packages\requests\sessions.py", line 508, in request
resp = self.send(prep, **send_kwargs)
File "C:\Users\Lenovo\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\lib\site-packages\requests\sessions.py", line 640, in send
history = [resp for resp in gen] if allow_redirects else []
File "C:\Users\Lenovo\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\lib\site-packages\requests\sessions.py", line 640, in <listcomp>
history = [resp for resp in gen] if allow_redirects else []
File "C:\Users\Lenovo\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\lib\site-packages\requests\sessions.py", line 218, in resolve_redirects
**adapter_kwargs
File "C:\Users\Lenovo\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\lib\site-packages\requests\sessions.py", line 618, in send
r = adapter.send(request, **kwargs)
File "C:\Users\Lenovo\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\lib\site-packages\requests\adapters.py", line 490, in send
raise ConnectionError(err, request=request)
requests.exceptions.ConnectionError: ('Connection aborted.', ConnectionAbortedError(10053, 'An established connection was aborted by the software in your host machine', None, 10053, None))

Re: MERAKI BACKUP AND RESTORE

Philip D'Ath — Thu, 01 Feb 2018 04:12:56 GMT

Hi @ritchie.barral. Just edit that last post and remove the API key from from the command line. I'll have a look at the rest.

Re: MERAKI BACKUP AND RESTORE

Philip D'Ath — Thu, 01 Feb 2018 04:15:31 GMT

I see it got upset when retrieving the SSID Firewall rules. I haven't tested against a M65W before, so I'll go try that.

So the prior change I gave got you past the SNMP issue?

Re: MERAKI BACKUP AND RESTORE

Philip D'Ath — Thu, 01 Feb 2018 05:05:09 GMT

I have a couple of thoughts.

Are you perhaps using Python V2 instead of Python V3? To force the version try:

python3 meraki-backup.py <api-key> "Ardent Network Inc"

I have also updated the script to include the SNMP fix, and an issue with SSIDs. So you should download a fresh copy. You may still get some errors, but you should get a reasonable restore script produced.

Re: MERAKI BACKUP AND RESTORE

ritchie.barral — Thu, 01 Feb 2018 08:54:44 GMT

I am using python 3.6

Re: MERAKI BACKUP AND RESTORE

MilesMeraki — Thu, 01 Feb 2018 09:23:50 GMT

The old script worked with me fine with Python 3.6, all I did was go into my network-wide settings and just enabled SNMP and set anonymous community strings which did the trick.

Re: MERAKI BACKUP AND RESTORE

ritchie.barral — Thu, 01 Feb 2018 09:26:18 GMT

I will check that.

Re: MERAKI BACKUP AND RESTORE

MAG2 — Sat, 03 Feb 2018 12:37:26 GMT

I just tried the script and seems to work fine, at least i can not see any errors but where the results are written ?? which folder ?

Thanks

Re: MERAKI BACKUP AND RESTORE

Philip D'Ath — Sat, 03 Feb 2018 20:53:49 GMT

The results are written to the "current working directory" - so whatever directory you ran the command in, the restore script will be in.

Re: MERAKI BACKUP AND RESTORE

MAG2 — Mon, 05 Feb 2018 16:19:16 GMT

oh ok , sorry Philip, i thougth that the results were written on a file other that the restore script. I see now that the "data" is inside the restore scripts itself. clear.

Thanks again.

Miguel Angel

Re: MERAKI BACKUP AND RESTORE

BrechtSchamp — Fri, 23 Feb 2018 08:33:24 GMT

Tried out the backup script. Had some problems getting it to run at first. Error was:

TypeError: __init__() got an unexpected keyword argument 'strict'

Reason was an out-of-date requests library. Fixed that by using:

pip install --upgrade requests

For testing I had created a dummy network that didn't have actual hardware in it but had some hardware independent settings changed. Had problems creating a backup with that somewhat empty network in my org:

HTTP Status Code: 404 - No returned data

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "meraki-backup.py", line 187, in <module>
    write_ssid_settings(file,apikey,row['id'],suppressprint)
  File "meraki-backup.py", line 124, in write_ssid_settings
    myRules=meraki.getssidl3fwrules(apikey, networkid, row['number'], suppresspr
int)[0:-2]
TypeError: 'NoneType' object is not subscriptable

Although the backup without that network was successful I'm not really willing to try out whether restore works on my real networks.

I think that Meraki should allow for some kind of backup natively.

Re: MERAKI BACKUP AND RESTORE

Philip D'Ath — Fri, 23 Feb 2018 18:35:41 GMT

Thanks for the feedback! I don't think I have tested it out on a network with no devices in it. I'll give that a try sometime.

Re: MERAKI BACKUP AND RESTORE

AJ Acevedo — Tue, 05 Jun 2018 04:19:43 GMT

@Philip D'Ath

Have you considered putting this script under version control on GitHub? Would be a great way to for people to track changes/updates and contribute to the code base.