Introduction

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The following sections provide an overview of Cisco Meraki and the Cisco: Meraki [API] PowerPack:

What is Cisco Meraki?

Cisco Meraki provides a set of networking devices and appliances that you can manage from the cloud. Cisco Meraki's centralized cloud architecture enables you to securely monitor users, applications, and devices in your environment.

What Does the Cisco: Meraki [API] PowerPack Monitor?

To monitor Cisco Meraki devices using SL1 and the Meraki API, you must install the Cisco: Meraki [API] PowerPack. This PowerPack enables you to discover and collect data about Cisco Meraki appliances.

The Cisco: Meraki [API] PowerPack includes:

  • Dynamic Applications to discover, model, and monitor performance metrics and collect configuration data for Cisco Meraki devices
  • Device Classes for each of the Cisco Meraki devices, networks, and organizations that SL1 monitors
  • Event Policies and corresponding alerts that are triggered when Cisco Meraki devices meet certain status criteria
  • Event Policies for Email/Webhook alerts
  • Example credentials that you can use as template to create Basic/Snippet or SOAP/XML credentials for connecting to the Cisco Meraki API
  • Run Book Action and Automation policies that create Meraki organization virtual devices during discovery, reboot devices, and vanish devices

Meraki dashboards can be downloaded in the Cisco Meraki: SL1 Dashboards PowerPack.

Installing the Cisco: Meraki [API] PowerPack

Before completing the steps in this section, you must import and install the latest version of the Cisco: Meraki [API] PowerPack.

By default, installing a new version of a PowerPack overwrites all content from a previous version of that PowerPack that has already been installed on the target system. You can use the Enable Selective PowerPack Field Protection setting in the Behavior Settings page (System > Settings > Behavior) to prevent new PowerPacks from overwriting local changes for some commonly customized fields. For more information, see the section on Global Settings.

Ensure that you are running version 12.1.2 or later of SL1 before installing this PowerPack. For details on upgrading SL1, see the relevant SL1 Platform Release Notes.

To download and install the PowerPack:

  1. Search for and download the PowerPack from the PowerPacks page (Product Downloads > PowerPacks & SyncPacks) at the ScienceLogic Support Site.
  2. In SL1, go to the PowerPacks page (System > Manage > PowerPacks).
  3. Click the Actions button and choose Import PowerPack. The Import PowerPack dialog box appears.
  4. Click [Browse] and navigate to the PowerPack file from step 1.
  5. Select the PowerPack file and click Import. The PowerPack Installer modal displays a list of the PowerPack contents.
  6. Click Install. The PowerPack is added to the PowerPacks page.

If you exit the PowerPack Installer modal without installing the imported PowerPack, the imported PowerPack will not appear in the PowerPacks page. However, the imported PowerPack will appear in the Imported PowerPacks modal. This page appears when you click the Actions menu and select Install PowerPack.