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PRTG Manual: Cisco Meraki Network Health Sensor

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The Cisco Meraki Network Health sensor monitors the health of Cisco Meraki network devices via the Cisco Meraki Dashboard API.

Cisco Meraki Network Health Sensor

For a detailed list and descriptions of the channels that this sensor can show, see section Channel List.

Sensor in Other Languages

Dutch: Cisco Meraki Netwerk Status
French: Cisco Meraki état du réseau
German: Cisco Meraki Netzwerkzustand
Japanese: Cisco Meraki ネットワークの正常性
Portuguese: Cisco Meraki Network Health
Russian: Работоспособность сети Cisco Meraki
Simplified Chinese: Cisco Meraki 网络运行情况
Spanish: Salud de la red Cisco Meraki

Remarks

Consider the following remarks and requirements for this sensor:

Remark	Description
Enabled organization API access	This sensor requires that you enable the access of an organization to the Cisco Meraki Dashboard API. If the API access for an organization is disabled, you must enable it manually. For more information, see Cisco Meraki Dashboard API: Enable API Access.
API key	This sensor requires an API key with Cisco Meraki Dashboard API permissions. The API key that this sensor uses must inherit the permissions of a Cisco Meraki Dashboard Administrator account with at least Read-only admin permissions. The API key inherits the permissions of the Cisco Meraki Dashboard Administrator account that was used to generate the API key.
Credentials	This sensor requires credentials for Cisco Meraki.
IPv6	This sensor supports IPv6.
Performance impact	This sensor has a very low performance impact.
Scanning interval	The minimum scanning interval of this sensor is 10 seconds. The recommended scanning interval of this sensor is 5 minutes.
Multi-platform probe	You can add this sensor to a multi-platform probe.

Basic Sensor Settings

The sensor has the following default tags that are automatically predefined in the sensor's settings when you add the sensor:

cisco
meraki

For more information about basic sensor settings, see section Sensor Settings.

Cisco Meraki Specific

Setting	Description
Network	The name of the network that this sensor monitors.
Organization	The name of the organization that the monitored network belongs to.

Sensor Display

Setting	Description
Primary Channel	Select a channel from the list to define it as the primary channel. In the device tree, PRTG displays the last value of the primary channel below the sensor's name. The available options depend on what channels are available for this sensor. You can set a different primary channel later by clicking below a channel gauge on the sensor's Overview tab.
Graph Type	Define how this sensor shows different channels: Show channels independently (default): Show a graph for each channel. Stack channels on top of each other: Stack channels on top of each other to create a multi-channel graph. This generates a graph that visualizes the different components of your total traffic. You cannot use this option in combination with manual Vertical Axis Scaling (available in the channel settings).
Stack Unit	This setting is only visible if you select Stack channels on top of each other above. Select a unit from the list. PRTG stacks all channels with this unit on top of each other. By default, you cannot exclude single channels from stacking if they use the selected unit. However, there is an advanced procedure to do so.

Setting

Description

Primary Channel

Select a channel from the list to define it as the primary channel. In the device tree, PRTG displays the last value of the primary channel below the sensor's name. The available options depend on what channels are available for this sensor.

You can set a different primary channel later by clicking below a channel gauge on the sensor's Overview tab.

Graph Type

Define how this sensor shows different channels:

Show channels independently (default): Show a graph for each channel.
Stack channels on top of each other: Stack channels on top of each other to create a multi-channel graph. This generates a graph that visualizes the different components of your total traffic.
You cannot use this option in combination with manual Vertical Axis Scaling (available in the channel settings).

Stack Unit

This setting is only visible if you select Stack channels on top of each other above.

Select a unit from the list. PRTG stacks all channels with this unit on top of each other. By default, you cannot exclude single channels from stacking if they use the selected unit. However, there is an advanced procedure to do so.

Debug Options

Setting	Description
Result Handling	Define what PRTG does with the sensor result: Discard result (default): Do not store the sensor result. Store result: Store the last sensor result in the \Logs\sensors subfolder of the PRTG data directory on the probe system. The file name is Result of Sensor [ID].log. This setting is for debugging purposes. PRTG overwrites this file with each scanning interval. This option is not available when the sensor runs on the hosted probe of a PRTG Hosted Monitor instance. In a cluster, PRTG stores the result in the PRTG data directory of the master node.

Setting

Description

Result Handling

Define what PRTG does with the sensor result:

Discard result (default): Do not store the sensor result.
Store result: Store the last sensor result in the \Logs\sensors subfolder of the PRTG data directory on the probe system. The file name is Result of Sensor [ID].log. This setting is for debugging purposes. PRTG overwrites this file with each scanning interval.

This option is not available when the sensor runs on the hosted probe of a PRTG Hosted Monitor instance.

In a cluster, PRTG stores the result in the PRTG data directory of the master node.

Inherited Settings

By default, all of these settings are inherited from objects that are higher in the hierarchy. We recommend that you change them centrally in the root group settings if necessary. To change a setting for this object only, click under the corresponding setting name to disable the inheritance and to display its options.

For more information, see section Inheritance of Settings.

Channel List

Which channels the sensor actually shows might depend on the target device, the available components, and the sensor setup.

Channel	Description
Downtime	In the channel table on the Overview tab, this channel never shows any values. PRTG uses this channel in graphs and reports to show the amount of time in which the sensor was in the Down status
IOT "Alerting"	IOT devices in alerting status
IOT "Dormant"	IOT devices in dormant status
IOT "Offline"	IOT devices in offline status
IOT "Online"	IOT devices in online status
MR "Alerting"	Meraki Radios (MR) devices in alerting status
MR "Dormant"	MR devices in dormant status
MR "Offline"	MR devices in offline status
MR "Online"	MR devices in online status
MS "Alerting"	Meraki Switching (MS) devices in alerting status
MS "Dormant"	MS devices in dormant status
MS "Offline"	MS devices in offline status
MS "Online"	MS devices in online status
MX "Alerting"	Meraki Security (MX) devices in alerting status
MX "Dormant"	MX devices in dormant status
MX "Offline"	MX devices in offline status
MX "Online"	MX devices in online status
Uplinks "Active"	Uplinks in active status This channel is the primary channel by default.
Uplinks "Failed"	Uplinks in failed status
Uplinks "Not Connected"	Uplinks in not connected status
Uplinks "Ready"	Uplinks in ready status

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