topic Re: API not working all the sudden - cycle ports in specific vlan in Network Platform API

API not working all the sudden - cycle ports in specific vlan

What In the — Wed, 21 May 2025 16:09:02 GMT

I got the below working yesterday. now today it just keeps cycling the same port over and over.

I was hoping someone could assist in where I made a mistake or help tweak this.

I am trying to cycle any port in a defined net id that is set to the target vlan.

import meraki

target_vlan = 5

# Create Meraki API Dashboard interface
dashboard = meraki.DashboardAPI(API_KEY, suppress_logging=True)

devices = dashboard.organizations.getOrganizationDevices(ORG_ID, total_pages='all', networkIds=[NET_ID])
for device in devices:
    if device['productType'] == 'switch':
        device_ports = dashboard.switch.getDeviceSwitchPorts(device['serial'])

# Filter ports by VLAN
ports_to_cycle = []
for port in device_ports:
    if port['vlan'] == target_vlan:
        ports_to_cycle.append(str(port['portId']))

    # Cycle the selected ports
    if ports_to_cycle:
        dashboard.switch.cycleDeviceSwitchPorts(device['serial'], ports_to_cycle)
        print(f"Successfully cycled ports {ports_to_cycle} on switch {device['name']} in VLAN {target_vlan}")
    else:
        print(f"No ports found in VLAN {target_vlan} on switch {device['name']}")

Re: API not working all the sudden - cycle ports in specific vlan

aleabrahao — Wed, 21 May 2025 16:33:28 GMT

Hi,

You're calling cycleDeviceSwitchPorts() inside the loop that checks each port, which means it could be triggered multiple times unnecessarily, especially if multiple ports match the VLAN.

Re: API not working all the sudden - cycle ports in specific vlan

obrigg — Wed, 21 May 2025 16:43:03 GMT

Could this be an indentation problem?
"ports_to_cycle" does not seem to be under the "for device in devices:" loop, which would mean only the last device/serial number would make it into "ports_to_cycle".

Re: API not working all the sudden - cycle ports in specific vlan

What In the — Thu, 22 May 2025 14:47:10 GMT

Thank you.

It was an indent issue. Not sure how it changed. I think PyCharm prompted me about format change and I selected that.

Re: API not working all the sudden - cycle ports in specific vlan

obrigg — Thu, 22 May 2025 14:55:10 GMT

Great to hear!

While you’re at it, you can consider using getOrganizationDevices specifying productTypes=“switch”, which will retrieve only switches (saving you to filter the results afterwards).

Or, skip two steps by leveraging getOrganizationSwitchPortsBySwitch which will get you the port configurations of all switches in the organization.

In a small environment it won’t matter much, but in larger ones - it would be a ~80% API call reduction.