topic Re: Python meraki : Unable to claim network device in Network Platform API

Python meraki : Unable to claim network device

thibaut.matzke — Fri, 01 May 2020 17:48:52 GMT

Hello,

I am trying to claim a network device by using the Python API.

I am using the library "meraki 0.100.2".

In this library, I am trying to use the method "claimNetworkDevices(self, networkId: str, **kwargs)", but it doesn't work.

Here is my code :

import meraki

if __name__ == "__main__":


    dashboard = meraki.DashboardAPI()
    serial = ['****-****-****']
    network_id = "N_******************"
    dashboard.devices.claimNetworkDevices(network_id,serial)

I get this error :

dashboard.devices.claimNetworkDevices(network_id,serial)
TypeError: claimNetworkDevices() takes 2 positional arguments but 3 were given

I have tried by using different type of serial argument :

serial = {
    "serials": [
        "****-****-****"
    ]
}
serial = "****-****-****'
serial = '****-****-****'

but I still have the same issue. I checked the method definition in "devices.py", but I didn't help.

It works fine when I use POSTMAN with the same request.

What am I doing wrong ? Does anyone have the same issue ?

Re: Python meraki : Unable to claim network device

nicburr — Fri, 01 May 2020 21:12:04 GMT

Are you setting the api_key? I think the code you want looks something like this:

import meraki
api_key = "721e1notmyrealapikeyf72"
dashboard = meraki.DashboardAPI(api_key)

serialnums = ["XXXX-XXXX-XXXX"]
networkid = "L_6notmynetworkid93483"
claimdevice = dashboard.devices.claimNetworkDevices(networkid,serials=serialnums,)

Re: Python meraki : Unable to claim network device

thibaut.matzke — Fri, 01 May 2020 23:30:22 GMT

Hello @nicburr,

My api_key was already set in my environment variable.

I tried by using serials=serialnums, and it perfectly worked !

I tried again without specifying serials=, and it didn't work, so that was the thing I wasn't doing right

Thank you !