Generating & displaying Meraki MV snapshots in Microsoft Teams

“While you may not be trying to catch gnomes sharing a cup of tea together, the power of a picture extends into multiple situations and use cases. You can improve site visibility by accessing a snapshot of your camera feed on-demand from a simple text message, improve video analytics capabilities with third-party API integrations, or validate a ... Read more 13 Nov 2022 - 7 minute read

Performing and Splitting Action Batches with the Meraki API

“Action Batches are a special type of Dashboard API mechanism for submitting batched configuration requests in a single synchronous or asynchronous transaction. Action Batches are ideal for bulk configuration, either in the initial provisioning process, or for rolling out wide-scale configuration changes.” - Action Batch Documentation by Meraki ... Read more 08 Nov 2021 - 12 minute read

Storing Authentication Information Outside of Source Code

“An environment variable is a variable whose value is set outside the program, typically through functionality built into the operating system or microservice. An environment variable is made up of a name/value pair, and any number may be created and available for reference at a point in time.” - An Introduction to Environment Variables and How ... Read more 03 Jun 2021 - 8 minute read

Azure Timer Triggers to Schedule Meraki API Calls

“Azure Functions is a serverless solution that allows you to write less code, maintain less infrastructure, and save on costs. Instead of worrying about deploying and maintaining servers, the cloud infrastructure provides all the up-to-date resources needed to keep your applications running. You focus on the pieces of code that matter most to yo... Read more 02 Mar 2021 - 9 minute read

Integrating the Umbrella Enforcement API with Google Assistant

“The Cisco Umbrella Enforcement API is designed to give technology partners the ability to send security events from their platform/service/appliance within a mutual customer’s environment to the Umbrella cloud for enforcement. You may also list the domains and delete individual domains from the list. All received events will be segmented by the... Read more 16 Feb 2021 - 9 minute read