topic Bulk renaming of APs through Postman Runner in Network Platform API

Bulk renaming of APs through Postman Runner

roo54 — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 12:14:34 GMT

I have been trying to set up a Postman Runner job to bulk rename Meraki APs through the API.

Following the steps in:

https://community.meraki.com/t5/Wireless/Rename-AP-with-postman-runner/m-p/21137#M3507

I have created the following:

POST {{baseUrl}}/networks/{{networkId}}/devices/{{serial}}?name={{name}}

with a body that contains the following:

{

"name": "{{name}}",

"serial": "{{serial}}"

}

I then created a CSV file with the following information:

serial,name
Qxxx-6yyy-Uzzz,HQ-PMDF-AP999

(I've anonymised the real serial number)

Next, I opened up a new runner tab, loaded it with the collection above, pointed it at the CSV file and ran it.

What I got is shown below:

so the output shows it has gone to the right network, picked up both the AP serial number and the new AP name from the CSV file OK, but is showing a 404, not found, and is not updating the AP name.

I think this may be because it needs to know old and new names, and can't find the new name in the network (hence the 404 error), which is correct, but I don't see how to make it search out the old name and swap it for the new.

Incidentally, I also get "No Tests Found" but I think that is informational and is because I have just tried to do something but issued no tests....that what i think, but confirmation would be nice!

Thanks

Roo

Re: Bulk renaming of APs through Postman Runner

mloraditch — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 23:08:32 GMT

I only dabble in API stuff and I literally did a runner for the first time time today, but I think you may be using an invalid/retired syntax.

Update device is now network (and organization) agnostic: https://developer.cisco.com/meraki/api-v1/update-device/

If you sync the latest api collection to your postman install you should see this API endpoint and be able to create a runner off of it with the CSV you have and be successful.

Re: Bulk renaming of APs through Postman Runner

Ryan_Miles — Sat, 04 Jan 2025 00:22:59 GMT

Yeah the post referenced was started back in 2018 and mentioned deprecated API endpoints. I haven't tried doing bulk editing with the new endpoints yet. But I agree a new endpoint would need to be used to get this working.

Re: Bulk renaming of APs through Postman Runner

Ryan_Miles — Sat, 04 Jan 2025 23:02:10 GMT

Some quick testing using Runner and I'm getting various errors. But the endpoint works fine when I do a single call. Not sure what the issue is. Not enough brain power to continue poking at it today.

Re: Bulk renaming of APs through Postman Runner

Philip D'Ath — Sun, 05 Jan 2025 20:18:02 GMT

I haven't used it in a very long time, but you could also look at the Bulk Network Creation Tool.

https://documentation.meraki.com/General_Administration/Templates_and_Config_Sync/Using_the_Bulk_Network_Creation_Tool