topic Re: Connected Client Count per Access Point in Network Platform API

Connected Client Count per Access Point

Prodrick — Tue, 09 May 2023 21:45:37 GMT

What Organization or Network-level endpoint might I call to get the number of connected clients per Access Point? Previously we were getting this via snmp.meraki.com, but that has proven to be unreliable.

Maybe it's possible with this endpoint by totaling the number of clients grouped by recentDeviceName or recentDeviceSerial?

https://api.meraki.com/api/v1/networks/:networkId/clients

Thanks.

Re: Connected Client Count per Access Point

amabt — Tue, 09 May 2023 22:53:14 GMT

https://developer.cisco.com/meraki/api-v1/#!get-network-wireless-client-count-history seem to have what you are after if you filter by device serial.

Re: Connected Client Count per Access Point

Abdulaziz Loonat — Wed, 10 May 2023 15:14:51 GMT

I have written such a API that collects this information writes its to a back end database and has a on premise web page to see client connections per AP and network

I will dig out the code and post it here

Re: Connected Client Count per Access Point

Prodrick — Wed, 10 May 2023 15:22:41 GMT

Thanks @amabt and @Abdulaziz Loonat. So, it looks like we have two solutions. One that provides an integer response and one that provides information about each client that a software developer could group and total. GREAT!

Re: Connected Client Count per Access Point

Abdulaziz Loonat — Wed, 10 May 2023 15:28:39 GMT

with my solution I get notification if the client count per AP reaches 30 client also did another API that collects AP utilisation in % for the 2.4 and 5Ghz and again alerts me if utilisation goes above 90%

Re: Connected Client Count per Access Point

Prodrick — Wed, 10 May 2023 15:31:08 GMT

Agreed, that the clients endpoint provides richer information and uses the same number of calls. Is your solution published anywhere?

Re: Connected Client Count per Access Point

Abdulaziz Loonat — Thu, 11 May 2023 09:23:04 GMT

This is the API I call to get client count per AP

https://api.meraki.com/api/v1/networks/<NetworkID>/wireless/clientCountHistory?timespan=600&resolution=600&band=<band>&deviceSerial=<APSerialNumber>

I pass the network ID, the band either 2.4 or 5 Ghz abd serial number of the AP, the time span I use is 10 minutes and this API is called every 10 minutes.

Once the results are returned back as a json file, I then do the processing to extract the details and write to a back end SQL database. I then have a Power BI report that can graph the AP client count over a period of time.

I did a very quick and dirty way to get this information am sure there is a better way but dont have time to look into this. For my purpose, the above works for me and been running past 12 months

More info here

https://developer.cisco.com/meraki/api-latest/#!get-network-wireless-client-count-history

Re: Connected Client Count per Access Point

Prodrick — Sun, 04 Feb 2024 02:58:34 GMT

This is great, it’s just an expensive API call in large environments.

Re: Connected Client Count per Access Point

Jamiegprice15 — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 00:44:12 GMT

This is the code I use. I also have code to dump the information to a spreadsheet.

https://github.com/jadexing/Merakicode/blob/main/UserCountPerNetwork