topic API - Block a device from an SSID in Wireless

API - Block a device from an SSID

CiscoUser14 — Sun, 17 Feb 2019 16:53:59 GMT

I need help with blocking a device from a specific SSID using API.

There is an option to do so in the Meraki UI by selecting the client:

It does the work just fine. I am looking to find a way to do the same using an API request.

checking client policy by

/networks/[networkId]/clients/[client_mac]/policy

Before changing:

{

"mac": "__MAC___",

"type": "Normal"

}

After changing

{

"mac": "__MAC___",

"type": "Different policies by SSID",

"ssids": {

"0": {

"type": "Normal",

"name": "SSID_Name0"

"1": {

"type": "Normal",

"name": "SSID_Name1"

"3": {

"type": "Blocked",

"name": "SSID_Name3"

}

}

I know I can send a request with device policy being whitelisted/blocked/normal/group, but I aim for "Different policies by SSID" or any other way to achieve it, if anyone knows.

Thanks in advance

Re: API - Block a device from an SSID

hody.crouch — Sun, 17 Feb 2019 17:22:31 GMT

The API does not appear to support setting different group policies for a client by SSID. I'm not aware of any workaround.

Re: API - Block a device from an SSID

CiscoUser14 — Tue, 26 Feb 2019 09:57:03 GMT

Thanks for trying to help, found the way.

PUT request to
api.meraki.com/api/v0/networks/{{NetworkId}}/clients/{{ClientMac}}/policy?timespan=86400&devicePolicy=Different policies by SSID

with the body

blocked_msg=&access=custom&custom_policy%5B0%5D=-1&custom_policy%5B1%5D=-1&custom_policy%5B3%5D=1&ids%5B%5D=DEVICE_ID

(when parsed it looks like this:)

Will get the result of the client having 'Normal' policy towards ssids with ID 0 and 1
'Blocked' for ssid with ID 3

Re: API - Block a device from an SSID

kris.monier — Fri, 06 Dec 2019 20:23:13 GMT

Would love to use this myself! I'm not following the url you're using for the request. As far as I know you can't put spaces in the url, so how were you able to accomplish adding "devicePolicy=Different policies by SSID" to the end of the put request?

Re: API - Block a device from an SSID

Gal_Tfilin — Mon, 08 Nov 2021 16:25:12 GMT

I tried @CiscoUser14 's solution and could not make it work.

However, I managed to find the documentation of that functionality under the following API:

https://developer.cisco.com/meraki/api/#!provision-network-clients

under schema definition.

You should set Per connection policy and list the SSIDs you would like to change the device's policy for them

Here is an example for a request's body that would block device for specific SSIDs:

{

"mac": "aa:aa:aa:aa:aa:aa",

"devicePolicy": "Per connection",

"timespan": 2592000,

"policiesBySsid": {

"9": {

"devicePolicy": "Blocked"

}

Sending this body in a post request to /networks/{networkId}/clients/provision will block any device with MAC aa:aa:aa:aa:aa:aa from connecting to SSID on index 9(you can get that using GET /networks/{networkId}/ssids)