Best Practice for Merakai Asset Load

The best practice for the Meraki Asset Load provides you with the information that you need to complete and run the integration successfully, and gain visibility of the data that is ingested by Oomnitza.

The following items are in the package:

• The integration
• The Business Objects
• The Credentials
• The Roles
• The Saved Searches
• The Dashboards

For the integration to run, information such as authorization and integration values, must be added or updated. 

Add the value for your subdomain as a global variable

1. From the menu, click Configuration > General, and then click Global Settings.
2. Click Meraki.Network Id.  
3. Enter your network ID.
4. Click SAVE. 

Update credentials

1. Log in to Oomnitza.
2. Click Configuration > Security > Credentials.
3. To search for the credentials, type the name of the credential.
4. Click the credentials record.
5. Click the AUTHORIZATION tab.
6. Ensure that API Key is selected as the authorization type.
7. Enter X-Cisco-Meraki-API-Key as the name of the token. 
8. Enter the API Key.
9. Ensure that Add to Header is selected.
10. Save your changes.

See Extended connector integration for Cisco Meraki assets

Update the integration

1. From the menu, click Configuration > Integrations, and then click Integrations List View .
2. Click the integration tile for the Meraki asset integration.
3. Go to the Connect page and make the following changes:
4. Change the value selected for Integration preference. If this is the first time that you have run the integration, select Create & Update.
5. To identify who made the integration changes, add a valid username in the Integration user field.
6. Enter the Network ID of your Meraki system.
7. When you complete making your changes, click NEXT until you get to the final page and then click FINISH.

Add fields to the Assets view

New fields that are ingested by Oomnitza are not automatically listed on the Assets page.

Add new fields to the Assets page

1. Click Assets.
2. Click Add.
3. Click Configure the view .
4. Click + Add Fields.
5. Select the fields that you want to add and click ADD.
6. Click List View Configs .
7. Select the fields.

Tip
If you want to add new fields that are related, create a group in screen builder and add the fields to the group.