Cisco Meraki Monitoring

Integrating Cisco Meraki with Centreon for Seamless Monitoring

Centreon offers a robust solution for global infrastructure monitoring that includes seamless integration with Cisco Meraki’s cloud services. Through out-of-the-box connectors, Centreon enables automatic discovery of Cisco Meraki networks and devices, ensuring that monitoring is both comprehensive and easy to manage. This integration ensures that Cisco Meraki’s built-in monitoring capabilities are enhanced, providing greater visibility across the entire IT environment.

Key Features of Centreon’s Cisco Meraki Integration

Centreon’s solution for monitoring Cisco Meraki includes several powerful features designed to streamline network management:

• Automatic Discovery: Effortlessly identify all Cisco Meraki devices and services, ensuring nothing is missed during monitoring.
• Standardized Monitoring Policies: Establish consistent monitoring rules across devices, reducing the time needed for manual configuration.
• Rich Data Visualization: Gain insights through dashboards and visualizations that make network health and performance data easy to understand.
• Proactive Alerts and Automated Actions: Configure alerts to trigger specific actions or notifications, ensuring that issues are addressed quickly.

Monitoring Cisco Meraki Networks with Centreon

Centreon enables detailed monitoring of the Cisco Meraki environment, starting with the cloud-based controller itself. This monitoring covers:

• Controller Health Checks: Provides data on API call volumes and allows filtering by organization and endpoint return codes, ensuring that API usage remains within limits.
• Network Health Monitoring: Monitors the health of configured networks, such as tracking the number of connections, traffic in and out, and the global status of devices.
• Device-Level Monitoring: Automatically checks the health of network devices like wireless access points, switches, gateways, and IoT devices, whether globally (e.g., number of online/offline devices) or individually (e.g., port statuses, traffic statistics like latency and packet loss).
• VPN Connection Monitoring: Tracks the status of VPN tunnels, providing detailed metrics on the counts of active and failed connections.

Optimized API Call Management

Monitoring Cisco Meraki through an API can be resource-intensive, especially since Cisco enforces rate limits on API call volumes. Centreon’s integration addresses this by using a caching mechanism that minimizes the number of API calls while still delivering up-to-date monitoring data. This approach ensures that organizations can monitor their networks without exceeding Cisco’s rate limits, preserving performance and data accuracy.

Data Visualization and Alerting with Centreon

Once Cisco Meraki’s metrics are integrated into Centreon, users gain access to a suite of visualization tools tailored to their needs. Centreon’s dashboards and diagrams make it easy to track network health, visualize traffic patterns, and identify trends over time.

Centreon also allows for the creation of Business Activity Diagrams, which help IT teams understand the relationships and dependencies between different network components. These diagrams are particularly useful for reducing alert fatigue, as they enable teams to focus on critical issues and filter out less urgent alerts.

Users can configure notifications to be sent via standard email or to integrate with incident management tools like PagerDuty. This ensures that IT teams are always aware of potential issues, allowing them to take action swiftly and minimize the impact on end users.