Change EA Subscription from Essentials to Advantage

[I3udder]

I need to change the MX licensing level from Essentials to Advantage in our EA.

I need to do this across several Organizations an 1000+ networks. Does anybody know how to do it an easy way except manually?

[MerakiGnome]

Hi @I3udder - in this instance I would reach out to both your Cisco Partner and Cisco/Meraki aligned AM

[BlakeRichardson]

I second this, a mixture of Meraki sales and supports team can probably sort this for you. Given you are on subscription licensing already I can imagine it being to difficult.

[Rasmus Hoffmann Birkelund]

No API endpoint for changing license level, so I'd probably engage Meraki Support if I were you.

Or you could consider the rebellious side, and use your session cookie instead...

[mloraditch · Accepted solution]

There actually is a beta (which is somewhat different from ea) endpoint available to make the change.

https://developer.cisco.com/meraki/whats-new/v1-beta/#-licensing

you can just do it but make sure you understand the financial implications with your partner/cisco rep.

[I3udder]

Created an Ansible script to do this. Just couldn't find the limits of the concurrent objects that could be changed. So created a loop with enough retries to accommodate the API limits of Meraki I hope 🙂

- name: Get organizations

cisco.meraki.networks_info:

meraki_api_key: "{{ meraki_api_key }}"

organizationId: "{{ meraki_organizationId }}"

perPage: 1000

total_pages: -1

register: meraki_networks

- name: Update FeatureTiers

ansible.builtin.uri:

url: "https://api.meraki.com/api/v1/administered/licensing/subscription/networks/featureTiers/batchUpdate"

method: POST

body_format: json

headers:

Accept: application/json

X-Cisco-Meraki-API-Key: "{{ meraki_api_key }}"

body:

items:

- network:

id: "{{ Network['id'] }}"

productTypes:

- productType: appliance

featureTier: advantage

isAtomic: true

register: uri_output

retries: 20

delay: 5

until: "uri_output.status == 200"

loop: "{{ meraki_networks['meraki_response'] | list }}"

loop_control:

label: "{{ Network['id'] }} - {{ Network['name'] }} - {{ network_idx + 1}} out of {{ meraki_networks['meraki_response'] | length }}"

loop_var: Network

index_var: network_idx

[Philip D'Ath]

You have a limit of a total of 10 API requests per second across all APIs consumers for the entire org.

https://developer.cisco.com/meraki/api-v1/rate-limit/

There is a limit of 100 APIs per second per IP address when you are working on multiple orgs.

[I3udder]

@Philip D'Ath those limits I know. I mean the limits of that specific call. For example with a batch job you can only do 100 changes in 1 API call. But that limit of how many is unknown to me for this specific call.

[Philip D'Ath]

There are no "per API call" specific limits. The limits apply to the API as a whole.

All of the limits are documented in the link I provided.