Overview

The Meraki Discovery Event Monitor connects to Cisco Meraki using their API and discovers and automatically onboards Meraki devices to your monitoring configuration.

Use Cases

• Onboarding new managed switch (MS), router, and wireless Meraki devices
• Automatically organizing Meraki devices into a dedicated folder

Monitoring Options

This event monitor provides the following options:

Authentication

In the Authentication section, enter the API key and organization name from which you want to import Meraki devices. Select a device group that will receive the onboarded devices.

Alert with [Info/Warning/Error/Critical] if the Meraki API cannot be contacted

This monitoring option will send an alert of your choice if FrameFlow cannot contact the Meraki API.

Alert with [Info/Warning/Error/Critical] if a previously discovered device isn't detected

Enable this option to receive an alert of your choice if a device that this event monitor discovered on a previous run isn't there anymore.

Pause previously discovered devices if they are no longer found in Meraki

This option will pause any devices that have been previously detected by this event monitor.

Move previously discovered devices if they are no longer found in Meraki

Use this option to move previously discovered devices to a folder of your choosing.

Remove previously discovered devices if they are no longer found in Meraki

This option will completely remove devices that the event monitor has detected on previous runs and are still there on the next run.

Import

Under the "Import" dropdown, you can choose to import both switches and router devices, or just one of the two types.

Filter

Under the "Filter" setting, enter the names of devices to ignore, one per line. You can use the asterisk character (*) as a wildcard character.

Ignore

Enter one or more patterns, one per line, to exclude devices based on their name. As with the last option, you can use the asterisk character (*) as a wildcard.

Protocols

Data Points

This event monitor generates the following data points:

Data Point	Description
Count of Detected Devices	The number of devices the event monitor has detected.

Sample Output

Tutorial

To view the tutorial for this event monitor, click here.