Meraki Dashboard API .Net Standard Client

Meraki is a network appliance vendor acquired by Cisco in 2012 that focuses on cloud-hosted management and ease of use. Their devices are increasingly popular with companies of any size looking to simply their network management.

Meraki provides a limited web API for managing their devices called the Dashboard API. Meraki provides wrappers in NodeJS (JavaScript), Ruby and Python but not for C#. This library is the beginnings of a .Net Standard 2.0 wrapper. Its goals are:

1. Wrap the Meraki Dashboard APIs, making them callable with the least effort.
2. Follow C# standards and conventions as much as possible. For example, provide lists and enums with transparent conversions.
3. Allow easy mocking to make automated testing of calling code easier.
4. Allow APIs not wrapped by this library to be callable.
5. Provide assistance for debugging both this library and Meraki Dashboard API calls.

It is currently a work in progress. While this library is in beta, breaking changes are still possible.

See LICENSE for the license. Based off original work by Michael Park at https://github.com/migrap/Meraki. Meraki and Cisco are trademarks owned by Cisco Meraki and Cisco respectively.

Use

Create a MerakiDashboardClient instance using MerakiDashboardClientFactory.Create, supplying your API key, then call methods on it, such as:

using Meraki.Dashboard;

 // ...

string apiKey; // API key from the user's profile in the Meraki Dashboard
string organizationId; // my organization ID
using (MerakiDashboardClient merakiDashboardClient = MerakiDashboardClientFactory.Create(apiKey))
{
	try
	{
		// GET /organizations/[id] as documented at 
		// https://dashboard.meraki.com/api_docs#return-an-organization
		Organization organization = await merakiDashboardClient.GetOrganizationAsync(organizationId);

		// ...
	}
	catch(HttpRequestException ex)
	{
		// Hande errors
	}
}

MerakiDashboardClientFactory.Create also accepts an IOption<MerakiClientOptions> overload when loading settings from an appSettings.json file as shown in TestOption.cs.

If Meraki introduces a new Dashboard API where there is no support in the library, use the Client property to get access to the underlying MerakiHttpApiClient object that a MerakiDashboardClient object uses to call Meraki Dashboard APIs.

For example, if Meraki introduced a GET /networks/[id]/alerts API to retreive the alerts for each network (found on the Dashboard under "Network-wide" -> "Configure" -> "Alerts):

using Meraki.Dashboard;

 // ...

 [DataContract]
 public class NetworkAlerts
 {
	[DataMember(Name="networkId")]
	public string NetworkId { get; set; }

	// Insert other fields
 }

string apiKey; // API key from the user's profile in the Meraki Dashboard
string networkId; // my network ID
using (MerakiDashboardClient merakiDashboardClient = MerakiDashboardClientFactory.Create(apiKey))
{
	NetworkAlerts networkAlerts = 
		await merakiDashboardClient.Client.GetAsync<NetworkAlerts>("v0/network/{id}/alerts");

	// ...
}

The Meraki Dashboard APIs with at least partial support are:

• GET /organizations/[organization_id]/admins
• POST /organizations/[organization_id]/admins
• PUT /organizations/[organization_id]/admins/[id]
• DELETE /organizations/[organization_id]/admins/[id]
• GET /devices/[serial]/clients
• GET /networks/[networkId]/clients/[client_mac]/policy
• PUT /networks/[id]/clients/[mac]/policy
• GET /networks/[id]/clients/[mac]/splashAuthorizationStatus
• PUT /networks/[id]/clients/[mac]/splashAuthorizationStatus
• GET /organizations/[organizationId]/configTemplates
• DELETE /organizations/[organizationId]/configTemplates/[id]
• GET /networks/[networkId]/devices
• GET /networks/[networkId]/devices/[serial]
• GET /networks/[networkId]/devices/[serial]/uplink
• PUT /networks/[networkId]/devices/[serial]
• POST /networks/[networkId]/devices/claim
• GET /networks/[networkId]/devices/[serial]/lldp_cdp
• PUT /networks/[networkId]/cellularFirewallRules
• GET /networks/[networkId]/l3FirewallRules
• PUT /networks/[networkId]/l3FirewallRules
• GET /organizations/[organizationId]/vpnFirewallRules
• PUT /organizations/[organizationId]/vpnFirewallRules
• GET /networks/[networkId]/ssids/[number]/l3FirewallRules
• PUT /networks/[networkId]/ssids/[number]/l3FirewallRules
• GET /networks/[id]/groupPolicies
• GET /organizations/[organizationId]/networks
• GET /networks/[id]
• PUT /networks/[id]
• POST /organizations/[organizationId]/networks
• DELETE /networks/[id]
• POST /networks/[id]/bind
• POST /networks/[id]/unbind
• GET /networks/[id]/siteToSiteVpn
• PUT /networks/[id]/siteToSiteVpn
• GET /networks/[id]/traffic
• GET /networks/[id]/accessPolicies
• GET /networks/[id]/airMarshal
• GET /networks/[id]/bluetoothSettings
• PUT /networks/[id]/bluetoothSettings
• GET /organizations
• GET /organizations/[id]
• PUT /organizations/[id]
• POST /organizations
• POST /organizations/[id]/clone
• POST /organizations/[id]/claim
• GET /organizations/[id]/licenseState
• GET /organizations/[id]/inventory
• GET /organizations/[id]/snmp
• PUT /organizations/[id]/snmp
• GET /organizations/[id]/thirdPartyVPNPeers
• PUT /organizations/[id]/thirdPartyVPNPeers
• PUT /organizations/[id]/thirdPartyVPNPeers
• GET /networks/[networkId]/phoneAssignments
• GET /networks/[networkId]/phoneAssignments/[serial]
• PUT /networks/[networkId]/phoneAssignments/[serial]
• DELETE /networks/[networkId]/phoneAssignments/[serial]
• GET /networks/[networkId]/phoneContacts
• POST /networks/[networkId]/phoneContacts
• PUT /networks/[networkId]/phoneContacts/[contactId]
• DELETE /networks/[networkId]/phoneContacts/[contactId]
• GET /networks/[networkId]/phoneNumbers
• GET /networks/[networkId]/phoneNumbers/available
• GET /organizations/[organizationId]/samlRoles
• GET /organizations/[organizationId]/samlRoles/[id]
• PUT /organizations/[organizationId]/samlRoles/[id]
• POST /organizations/[organizationId]/samlRoles
• DELETE /organizations/[organizationId]/samlRoles/[id]
• GET /networks/[network_id]/sm/devices
• PUT /networks/[network_id]/sm/devices/tags
• PUT /networks/[network_id]/sm/device/fields
• PUT /networks/[network_id]/sm/devices/lock
• PUT /networks/[network_id]/sm/device/wipe
• PUT /networks/[network_id]/sm/devices/checkin
• PUT /networks/[network_id]/sm/devices/move
• GET /networks/[networkId]/ssids
• GET /networks/[networkId]/ssids/[number]
• PUT /networks/[networkId]/ssids/[number]
• GET /devices/[serial]/switchPorts
• GET /devices/[serial]/switchPorts/[number]
• PUT /devices/[serial]/switchPorts/[number]
• GET /networks/[networkId]/staticRoutes
• GET /networks/[networkId]/staticRoutes/[srId]
• PUT /networks/[networkId]/staticRoutes/[srId]
• POST /networks/[networkId]/staticRoutes
• DELETE /networks/[networkId]/staticRoutes/[srId]
• GET /networks/[networkId]/vlans
• GET /networks/[networkId]/vlans/[vlanId]
• PUT /networks/[networkId]/vlans/[vlanId]
• POST /networks/[networkId]/vlans
• DELETE /networks/[networkId]/vlans/[id]

Mocking

As stated above, one of the main goals for providing a client library is mocking it when unit testing the calling code as shown in TestMerakiDashboardClientMocking.cs.

Exercise

The exercises found at http://developers.meraki.com/post/152434096196/dashboard-api-learning-lab can be found in the Meraki.Dashboard.Console project. At the time of writing, the Meraki organization and devices shown does not match the documented exercises. However, this may still be helpful to those looking for more complex examples.

Contributing

Pull requests are welcome. See CONTRIBUTING.md for contribution details.