topic Re: Connections by SSID in Network Platform API

Connections by SSID

Prodrick — Sat, 11 Nov 2023 22:33:21 GMT

I was looking to better understand client connections and to track connections by SSID, but when I examined the syslog for a given AP I didn't see any information that identified the SSID and client was connecting to. Where might this information be available?

Thanks

Re: Connections by SSID

aleabrahao — Sun, 12 Nov 2023 01:04:49 GMT

You can check it on Network-Wide > Clients page.

https://documentation.meraki.com/General_Administration/Monitoring_and_Reporting/Client_Details_Page_Overview

Re: Connections by SSID

Prodrick — Sun, 12 Nov 2023 16:26:35 GMT

Thanks, but I need to be able to integrate this with a partner application. I can’t use the following endpoint at scale, because I’d consume the Dashboard API rate limits for this one endpoint across thousands of networks. I’m wondering why the SSID is in this events endpoint and in the Dashboard but not in the Syslog.

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

Re: Connections by SSID

Philip D'Ath — Sun, 12 Nov 2023 18:25:57 GMT

>I can’t use the following endpoint at scale, because I’d consume the Dashboard API rate limits for this one endpoint across thousands of networks

The rate limit is per org. If you use the API across 10 orgs you could do up to 100 API calls per second.

Re: Connections by SSID

Prodrick — Sun, 12 Nov 2023 18:28:33 GMT

I’m very aware of this. The problem is that this is a per-network API endpoint, not a per-Org endpoint (hence the can’t scale).

Re: Connections by SSID

John-on-API — Mon, 13 Nov 2023 23:31:53 GMT

Hi @Prodrick, can you clarify what you mean by "connections"? I'm wondering if you mean this in the sense of "connection events" or "connected sessions" or perhaps something else.

Re: Connections by SSID

Prodrick — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 00:07:41 GMT

Thanks @John-on-API . I’d like to be able to follow which SSID’s client connected to, or tried to connect to. In the syslog I can see everything related to specific APs, but I don’t see and can’t correlate those to which SSID. Does that make sense?