topic Re: Subscription Licensing API in Network Platform API

Subscription Licensing API

joseph-vlajcic — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 14:00:05 GMT

Hi, we're looking to add support for Meraki subscription monitoring into our platform through the subscription API end point (Get Administered Licensing Subscription Subscriptions - Meraki Dashboard API v1 - Cisco Meraki Developer Hub), is there any demo or sandbox environment that has a subscription licensing model loaded in it? It seems a lot of the current resources and documentation is based on per-device or co-term licensing so we're having trouble testing our code.

Does anyone know of a "testable" environment that has subscription licensing loaded?

Thanks!

Re: Subscription Licensing API

aleabrahao — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 14:24:30 GMT

Have you checked it on dCloud?

Cisco Meraki Network Subscription Licensing v1

Re: Subscription Licensing API

joseph-vlajcic — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 14:39:48 GMT

Thanks - I did look in dCloud and they do have both subscription and EA environments on Instant demo. I don't think the environments there will let you generate API Keys though because dcloud uses SAML for the dashboard access.

From the Meraki API documentation:

SAML/SSO dashboard administrators cannot view or generate API keys: SAML users cannot generate API keys to uphold security requirements.

Re: Subscription Licensing API

aleabrahao — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 15:01:22 GMT

The environment there really doesn't allow any configurations, so in this case there is no testing environment. Why don't you create a testing network? Or even a new organization for testing.

Re: Subscription Licensing API

joseph-vlajcic — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 15:10:49 GMT

Thanks, that sounds promising - is there a sandbox or something where I can do that? It looks like the developer.cisco.com environment doesn't support what I'm trying to do but you sound knowledgeable about options.

Re: Subscription Licensing API

aleabrahao — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 15:16:35 GMT

Take a look at this.

Solved: How to get Started? - The Meraki Community

Re: Subscription Licensing API

joseph-vlajcic — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 15:55:10 GMT

I appreciate the advice - unfortunately no luck. I tried the sandbox again just now:

I'm getting a 404 error on the Subscription API endpoint - I think it's because that end point is not enabled (?) if that dashboard OrgID doesn't have subscription licensing:

They don't show the licensing screen in the DevNet Sandbox (that I can see but would love to be wrong here) so I don't know which licensing model is in use but I think it's co-term (just based on the vintage of the Sandbox).

So, my guess is that there is no test environment that has subscription licensing and so that there are no subscription API end points available to test against. I think that's why my test calls are all coming up 404 but obviously a lot of guesswork here.

All the same, I do appreciate your help! I might need to go find a friendly production environment I can test against.

Re: Subscription Licensing API

Philip D'Ath — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 19:47:38 GMT

That is a pain!

If I were to balance the cost of your time versus practicality - I think I would purchase the cheapest subscription licence and add it to a brand new test org.

Re: Subscription Licensing API

joseph-vlajcic — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 20:42:07 GMT

Yeah, that's fair 😀

That will probably be the "solve" here. Thanks again!