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}

    Customers in Singapore:
    https://location.ciscospaces.sg/notifications/Meraki/spacessgescaltionteam/{network_id}/{URLValidator}

    • 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.

  • STEP 7

    Login into Cisco Spaces account and Import networks


    Note: After adding Meraki networks into the Location Hierarchy, any maps that have been created within your Meraki dashboard will automatically be imported into the Cisco Spaces Map Services. You can validate that the import was successful by navigating to the Map Service and checking the “Upload History”.

    Menu > Setup > Map Service > Upload History