Networking: Cisco Meraki Automated Configuration Backup
The Workflow The Implementation Meraki dashboards are convenient, but if an admin accidentally modifies a critical firewall rule, rolling back is a nightmare. This Python script uses the Meraki Dashboard API to serialize your network configurations into a secure JSON format. 1. The Workflow The script performs the following steps: Authentication: Initializes the Meraki SDK using a read-only API key. Iteration: Loops through the Organization to find all active Networks. Extraction: Pulls VLAN subnets, SSID configurations, and MX L3 Firewall rules. Serialization: Dumps the state into a structured JSON file. 2. The Implementation import meraki import json from datetime import datetime API_KEY = 'YOUR_MERAKI_API_KEY' ORG_ID = 'YOUR_ORG_ID' dashboard = meraki.DashboardAPI(API_KEY, suppress_logging=True) def backup_network_config(): networks = dashboard.organizations.getOrganizationNetworks(ORG_ID) backup_data = {} for net in networks: net_id = net['id'] net_name = net['name'] backup_data[net_name] = {'vlans': dashboard.appliance.getNetworkApplianceVlans(net_id)} filename = f"meraki_backup_{datetime.now().strftime('%Y%m%d')}.json" with open(filename, 'w') as f: json.dump(backup_data, f, indent=4)