Meraki Switch

Version: Meraki Switch, MS series.

Cisco Meraki offers a broad range of switches, built from the ground up to be easy to manage without compromising any of the power and flexibility traditionally found in traditional enterprise-class switches. The Meraki dashboard provides unified policies, event logs, and monitoring, making it easy to manage network deployments.

Netsurion Open XDR helps to monitor events from Meraki Switches. It will trigger alerts whenever it detects an error or port block. It’s knowledge object and flex reports will help you to analyze STP changes, port changes and 802.1x authentications.

Netsurion Data Source Integrations for Meraki switch allows you to monitor the following :-

  • Security – 802.1x client authentication and de-authentication details and STP port blocked.
  • Compliance – VRRP master errors, DHCP server response blocked.
  • Operation – STP port role changes and port status.

Once Meraki switch is configured to deliver events to Netsurion Open XDR Manager; alerts and reports can be configured into Netsurion Open XDR.

The following are the key Data Source Integration available in Netsurion Open XDR.

Alerts

Type Name Description
Security Meraki Switch – STP port blocked This alert is generated when switch port is blocked by STP BPDU guard .
Compliance Meraki Switch – VRRP errors This alert is generated when switch changes from VRRP backup to VRRP master because it has not received packets from the master and Switch received VRRP packet with incompatible configuration.
Compliance Meraki Switch – Dhcp response blocked This alert is generated when switch blocks DHCP server response.

Reports

Type Name Description
Security Meraki Switch – 8021x authentication details This report provides information about 802.1x authentication and de-authentication from clients.
Operations Meraki Switch – STP port role changes This report provides information about STP role (blocked,designated,disabled,root,etc.,) of the switch port.
Operations Meraki Switch – Port status This report provides information about port status of the switch like (down, 100fdx, etc.,).

Documentation

The configuration details are consistent with Netsurion Open XDR 8.x and later, and Meraki Switch.

Download Integration Guide for configuration instructions and more information.