topic Re: Combined Network vs SM in Cloud Networking Platform

Combined Network vs SM

soomeGUy — Sun, 01 Oct 2017 14:36:04 GMT

I have been using Meraki for SM up till now for MDM of various ipads, etc. I just bought Meraki hardware and am a little confused as it wont let me mix SM and meraki hardware, is that correcT?

I have SM clients that will be used in the network I just made of meraki hardware (switch, appliance, ap) and I would like to put them all together, this is not possible?

Re: Combined Network vs SM

Philip D'Ath — Sun, 01 Oct 2017 19:13:07 GMT

That is correct. You can not combine other network types with Systems Manager.

Re: Combined Network vs SM

soomeGUy — Sun, 01 Oct 2017 19:55:16 GMT

Thanks, so the best practice is just to create the hardware networks and their corresponding SM networks or do you typically create your hardware networks and dump all SM into a single SM network?

Re: Combined Network vs SM

Philip D'Ath — Sun, 01 Oct 2017 19:57:10 GMT

I typically create a combined network per physical site for all the Cisco Meraki physical hardware.

I typically create one Systems Manager network for the entire organisation.

Re: Combined Network vs SM

soomeGUy — Mon, 02 Oct 2017 00:53:40 GMT

@Philip D'Ath wrote:
I typically create a combined network per physical site for all the Cisco Meraki physical hardware.

I typically create one Systems Manager network for the entire organisation.

Thanks, I assume there would be no issue creating multiple SM networks though correct? I have multiple separate divisions within the company that i would like to keep completely separate.

Re: Combined Network vs SM

Philip D'Ath — Mon, 02 Oct 2017 01:02:26 GMT

I've never done it, but I don't see any issue with that.

You could also use tags for this purpose (creating a tag per division) and assign those tags to the devices.