Cisco Meraki Discovery

[smfoister]

There are a few threads about Cisco Meraki discovery but nothing that quite addresses what I'm experiencing.

For those of you that are discovering Meraki devices successfully are you pulling in model information and serial numbers? I'm creating CI's but there doesn't appear to be an entPhysical table being returned through the SNMP payload, and this is where you would normally find this information.

Additionally, I noticed the ENTITY-MIB was not active in my instance. I thought this was odd because I know this is the MIB that is used for entity information, but other SNMP devices are being discovered just fine. I activated the MIB but obviously this isn't helping because the payload coming from the devices doesn't contain that entPhysical table anyway.

Am I missing something? What did you have to do?

[mamann]

I haven't discovered Meraki devices, but I've done extensive discovery on really obscure devices over SNMP and some of them store their serial number in a custom OID/MIB and you need to find said MIB from the Manufacturer and load it into SN, then adjust discovery to look in the correct location.

One thing I've found that helps is doing an snmpwalk on the device and just printing out every OID. There are some programs out there that can help with this too like OIDView and others.

In extreme cases, I've even ran into devices that don't have their serial number anywhere in their MIB structure and we ended up using the MAC Address or another attribute as a unique identifier.

Lastly, since you're dealing with Meraki, if there is a central controller device, it might be possible to poll that to get more information about your other devices and use that to enrich the data.

[smfoister]

Thanks, there is a Meraki dashboard but I want to get everything out of discovery that is possible first. I'd like to reduce the amount of integrations we have with other devices as we have a very small staff to maintain the platform. (It's just me)

I'll try an snmp walk and see if I get something different. Thanks!

[n0743]

Hi,

Did you get a way around with this one? I am facing the same issue with Meraki routers.

[mustaphafilahy]

Hi

Did you find any solution to get the Meraki devices discovered by Discovery  ?

Regards