ISE Meraki - Custom Network Device Profile or Cisco Profile?

[mitchp75]

Hello - We are just starting with Meraki and need to import Network Devices into ISE 2.4. Does Meraki gear require the need to build a custom Network Device Profile inside ISE or does it use the default Cisco profile? I looked at the design guide and couldn't see this outlined, I assume it would use the Cisco profile. Any thoughts or suggestions?

Thanks!

[thomas · Accepted solution]

Meraki uses the existing Cisco network device profile.

You will notice in the Authorization Profiles section of How To: Integrate Meraki Networks with ISE that Meraki uses the Airespace ACL Name attributes from the AireOS WLC. There is even a Note that explains the re-use:

Note:  The Airespace ACL Name is the name of the group policy configured on the Meraki cloud controller (Figure 3) for use with ISE Authorization Profile.  The Meraki cloud controller can be configured to look for 1 of 3 compatible RADIUS messages from Cisco ISE:  Filter-ID, Airespace-ACL-Name and Reply-Message.  This example uses Airespace-ACL-Name.