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One of my sites's SNMPv3 reporting went offline earlier tonight.The Sites' > Network-Wide > Configure > General > SNMP section had a new Privacy Mode = AES128 dropdown.Of course our monitoring software is still configured for the previous DES setting...
Over the years we've built a couple of Meraki sites but seem to have ended up with slightly different configs & conflicting advice re root & loop guard usage.Previously had months of site stability until recent core switch MLAG additions appears to h...
The Meraki best practices guide states:Keep the STP diameter under 7 hops, such that packets should not ever have to travel across more than 7 switches to travel from one point of the network to the otherWith this in mind, are stacked Meraki switches...
Honestly, this whole experience has not been confidence inspiring in terms of Meraki's QA & change control systems which then impacts our gear even when we've not made any changes ourselves.I've got over $500K USD of this gear in production so far & ...
AND the same thing has happening for me too for the same site that dropped about this time yesterday.Back to DES nowAND now SNMP uptimes have been reset too - yet my network monitoring didn't show a network drop at all? In fact I saw nothing go offli...
Further to this original incident, two more of more sites had some of their switches switches also suffer the same fate.I can also confirm the 'combined network' sites do not sure the DES/AES selection. HOWEVER upon pressing 'save' on that config pag...
Ah right - I hadn't factored a pair of MS225's failing at the same time; since we have a cold MS225 spares onsite ready. As for stack sizing - I could get extra optics to split the 6 high stack in to 2 smaller 3 high stacks to minimize any future dis...
