Connect via Meraki Login

• STEP 1

  Login into your Cisco Spaces account.

• STEP 2

  Click on the Location Hierarchy in the left navigation.

• STEP 3

  In the Location screen, click More Actions at the far right corner of the customer name. Choose Add Wireless Network.

• STEP 4

  From the Add a Wireless Network drop-down list that appears, choose Meraki.
  
  

• STEP 5

  Enter the username and password for your Meraki account, and click Connect account.

• STEP 6

  From the “Select Organization” drop-down list, select the Meraki organization of which you want to import the access points.

• STEP 7

  In the “Location Hierarchy” section, click on the ‘More Actions’ button of the organization row that you just imported.

• *Depending on the size of the networks, there may be a delay for the network to sync and available to be imported. Please wait for few minutes and try again.
• STEP 8

  Select networks that you want to import into Cisco Spaces cloud. Click Add. That’s it, the Meraki Access Points gets listed in the location hierarchy.

Add Post URL in Meraki.

Perform the following steps to turn on location updates in Meraki:

• STEP 1

  Go to Network-Wide -> Configure -> General in Meraki Dashboard.

• STEP 2

  Enable Analytics and Scanning API under “Location and scanning” section. “Add a Post URL” link will be visible now.

• STEP 3

  Click on “Add a Post URL” under the same section.

• STEP 4

  Configure under Post URLs.

• STEP 5

  Paste the following Post URL :

  https://location.dnaspaces.io/notifications/Meraki/{yourdnaspacesname}/{network_id}/{url_validator}

  Customers in Europe: https://location.dnaspaces.eu/notifications/Meraki/{yourdnaspacesname}/{network_id}/{url_validator}

  • where, {yourdnaspacesname) is a default customer name (all in small case excluding any special characters such as “-” , “_” , “.” etc) of your Cisco Spaces account (You can find this as the top most element in “Location Hierarchy” section in Cisco Spaces
  • {network_id} (The ‘Network ID’ is the string of characters that come after n/ in the web page’s URL in the address bar of your Meraki dashboard)
  • {url_validator} (you can find the URL validator in “Location and Scanning” section in your Meraki dashboard) parameters referred from the meraki dashboard.

  Secret : {yourdnaspacesname} API Version : 3.0

  

• STEP 6

  Click on Save to update the settings.