Visio Shapes

[s4mmy]

Can we please get some update visio shapes?

[dfairchild@cloudit.co]

Any update on Visio stencils. I dont see MX250 as a device in the stencils today.

[Adam Hinchliff]

Has anyone come across a stencil for the MS425-16?

[CarolineS-Meraki]

Just a quick update on this topic — we are indeed working on a new set of the Visio shapes. They won't be complete for a month or two, but stay tuned! We'll post another update here when they're ready. In the meantime, I love that @jdsilva has offered to share his own custom stencil in Box (see this post); anyone else have self-created stencils they'd like to share?

Cheers!

[Mark Withers]

Despite my inability to resist a good meme, I built a stencil based on the MX 250/MX 450 image on a Meraki blog.

I don't really have a public file repository, but a quick Google lead me to TinyUpload.com so...

http://s000.tinyupload.com/index.php?file_id=43341308004490175975

Data fields were built by hand off of an ASA 5515 stencil.

Image is 1924x173 pixels, I probably should have made it double that just to be more readable on zooming.

[frankvdveen]

Awesome work

[Scott Pickles]

I've created a stencil for the MS120-8. How do I share that?

UPDATE: File Custom Meraki MS120-8.vssx added by Community Moderator.

[CarolineS-Meraki]

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@Scott Pickles wrote:

I've created a stencil for the MS120-8. How do I share that?

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Hi @Scott Pickles -

Thanks so much for the offer to share it! If you send the file to me (via private message), I can post it here on your behalf.

Cheers!

[frankvdveen]

Thank you!

[CarolineS-Meraki]

Hi ya'll!

We have a draft version of Visio stencils for our MR, MS, MV, MX, and Z product lines - see below. We haven't officially launched these on our website; we'd like to get feedback from all ya'll first.

• PDF overview
• .VSS stencils

Please reply here with any input and I'll pass it on to the right folks.

Cheers!
- Caroline

[Mr_IT_Guy]

@CarolineS1, the current Z1, MX64W, MX65, and MX65W stencils show the back side of the devices (the side with the ports), but not the front of the device (the side with the status light). Conversely, the stencils for new MX models and Z3 only show the front side, but not the back. Could you please pass along that we would like to have both front and back of the security devices?

[CarolineS-Meraki]

Noted, thank you @Mr_IT_Guy!

[CarolineS-Meraki]

Report from the team working on this — they're planning to have front and back as requested in the final stencils. Please do let us know what other feedback you have, as we're actively working on finishing these up and it's the right time to make adjustments.

Cheers!

[RichH1]

Carol that is awesome but just to point out. The BACK view of longstanding products like MS225 switches and above with redudant power supplies, the MX100, MX250, MX400 have no back views as well. It would be nice because the level of documentation we do we have to draw in the optional redundant power as most commerical data centers do A and B power etc.

Please please point this out as this has been missed by meraki on rear view of stencils for years.

[CarolineS-Meraki]

Super, thanks for the feedback @RichH1! I’ll pass this on to the team. Cheers!

[CarolineS-Meraki]

Another update related to Visio / drawing network topologies — we have just released a collection of icons that are very useful in diagrams, especially those that are relatively high-level. They're not .vss-formatted, but can be imported into Visio or other diagram-creation tools. These icons are available for download here, or go to our Product Images page and scroll down to the "Cisco Meraki Topology Icons" item.

I've included a few samples below:

MR - Outdoor MS - Layer 2 - Stack MV Users

Update Dec 20, 2018: Now there's a blog post about our topology icons!