merakiquery.py

Description

This code will leverage python to query the Meraki Dashboard for information about the clients attached to the Meraki cloud for a particular organization

Requirements and Prerequisites

Meraki API Access

For more information on the Meraki API, you can consult https://create.meraki.io/. You will need to generate an API Key in your dashboard so that the information can be accessible from the calls to the API.

For more infomation on creating a API key, go to the following: https://documentation.meraki.com/zGeneral_Administration/Other_Topics/The_Cisco_Meraki_Dashboard_API

package_config.ini

The code uses a file called the package_config.ini to house the information about the connection to meraki application uses. In the repository, there is a package_config.ini.sample that you should rename to package_config.ini. Then modify the package_config.ini to reflect the following information

• serveraddress - The IP or DNS name for the meraki dashboard. This should normally be dashboard.meraki.com
• merakiAPIkey - This item is the meraki API Key. Within the Meraki dashboard, select organization->settings and enable the "Dashboard API access"
• organization - This item is the organization id that the queries will be executed from. You can leave this item blank the first time you run it, the application will display all the organization ids associated with the above merakiAPIkey

python

This demo example is based on Python 2.7 and was tested successfully under that version.

There are two main requirements for external libraries:

• requests
• configparser

You can install these prerequisites by the following commands:

pip install requests
pip install configparser