Chapter 4

Automating the Dashboard

Now that you are familiar with the most common interactions with the Dashboard and the Meraki platform, it’s time to discuss a major advantage of the Meraki platform: ease of automation. When you’re working with the Meraki platform, you can automate numerous tasks and actions, many in a variety of ways. Nearly any task that you can perform in the Dashboard via the web UI can also be automated through one or more of the methods that are covered in this chapter.

Configuration Templates

The simplest form of automation available on the Dashboard is the implementation of configuration templates. Configuration templates can be used to automatically configure networks for deployment, and to automatically update the ...

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