[CONTEST CLOSED] Community Challenge: Two Twosday Tips

[meredithw]

UPDATE: this contest has ended. Huge thanks to everyone for sharing your tips! Our three randomly selected winners are... @bboggs1, @JoshuaD, and @Stingburst. Congrats!

If there was ever a reason to have a Community Challenge, it's 2-2-22 Tuesday!

In honor of the rare occasion (the next Twosday challenge won't be held until 2422🙃), we want community members to share their TWO top tips for using Meraki solutions. These tips could pertain to any aspect of Meraki: they could be tips for folks just getting started, cool shortcuts to use in Dashboard, pointers for navigating the new occupancy analytics with MV, or how to keep your cats from warming themselves on your MX.

The key for this 2-22-22 Tuesday challenge, of course, is to be sure that you share TWO tips. As always, everyone who shares their Meraki tips will be entered to win sweet sweet swag!

How to enter

Submit your two tips in a reply to this post before 11 a.m. PT on Friday, February 25th (02/25/2022). We’ll then draw three entrants at random to win a wooden Meraki desk puzzle! Your entries will be public and visible throughout the contest.

Happy Twosday!

The fine print:

• Drawing will be held on Friday, February 25th at 11am PT
• One entry per community member
• Full terms, conditions, and eligibility information

[inderdeepsingh1]

Good luck to everybody !

[BlakeRichardson]

Tip 1. Use tags, I tag most ports i.e. CCTV, VOIP, Lift etc that way you can do a search on a particular device type and see everything.

Tip 2. Make use of MFA, keep your network secure.

Bonus Tip. Have a comfy chair because having your entire network at your fingertips is a blessing

[scansourcesales]

1. Always suggest to your Partner to buy a license with their hardware (if not listed on the quote).

2. If an end user is on the fence about purchasing and/or making the switch to Meraki products, make sure your Partner is familiar with the Try & Buy program.

[mguerrette]

Tip 1: AnyConnect for Meraki is here!

Tip 2: Cloud OnRamps are continuing to be developed for the Meraki MX!

[PatWruk]

Tip 1: Make sure the config is up to date before assuming a change didn't fix something

Tip 2: Utilize the API, even if it's just for monitoring

[shovey]

1.) Create daily exercises to see how you can use the tool/dashboard to solve issues.

2.) Make use of the Color blind assist mode

[bboggs1]

Tip 1: Dont forget to add your licenses into the dashboard right when you receive that email! So you dont have to be frantically looking for it the evening you planned to change things over.....or at least...thats what i have been told may happen 🙂

Tip 2: Under security center you get great information on what resources get hit the most by attempted attacks, allowing you to have an easy to read dashboard to show others and make decisions on where to add more security resources.

Bonus Tip: Feed the hamsters that are running your network, otherwise you'll have a bunch of unhappy customers and unhappy hamsters.

[Scrufflescram]

Tip 1: Consider all the ways Meraki integrates with useful software and SIEM's vs competitors.

Tip 2: Stop putting switches in badly ventilated closets! lol

[jwiley1978]

1. Reach out for assurance when designing a network. A partner or Meraki support is always very helpful for support during designing phase.

2. Take advantage of community and other training resources to make you life easier. Always fun when learning new things and helping others.

[rmelendez22]

Good luck team, here are my tips:

TIP 1: When purchasing outdoor MR equipment such as the MR76, it is a good option to purchase the meraki only for the years you choose to extend the equipment warranty.

TIP 2: Consider choosing the same type of license for all MX in an organization.

regards

[Kenny_Benzing]

1) Use proper licensing!! (Co-Termination or Per Device)

2) Move markers to reflect accurate location (and attach photos!)

[Dtmacri0001]

TIP#1 Co-termination licensing can extend expiration dates

TIP#2 Connection settings adjust to your specific needs

[kulwindersandhu]

Tip 1: If you are any good with APIs, jump into developer website for Meraki APIs. I don't even use dashboard for any process, just work on one API and save it for future operations of same sort.

Tip 2: Meraki RCA feature with SD-WAN Plus license is definitely a plus. For Meraki Insight, the Web Health Root Cause Analysis could be triggered for WAN links and alerts could be received via Emails. Amazing work by Meraki.

[Aaron Drydale]

1. Start with the API from the initial integrations into your network. Use them as much as possible especially if you work at scale.
2. Create standards around everything. Site names, templates, tags, everything should be documented and enforced. Organization in the dashboard is a powerful tool if used correctly.

[twshields2014]

Tip 1: When Setting up PPOE with BT on the MX we set the Userid and password for the PPOE, but leave IP address as Dynamic. Device was then able to connect.

learned from: community post https://community.meraki.com/t5/Security-SD-WAN/PPOE-Connection-with-Static-IP-address-and-VLAN-from-ISP-SIde/td-p/94941

TIP 2: When you buy a license the year starts on the day its initiated. So if you wait a month to add to portal its will be a year from when you bought not when you added to the portal.