Meraki MX Appliances

The ThousandEyes - Meraki integration allows users to install ThousandEyes Enterprise Agents on supported Meraki devices, providing better monitoring and testing capabilities for customers interested in improving the quality of their experience and adding the appropriate SD-WAN policies to optimize network performance.

This article provides an overview for the integration and the supported devices.

Use Cases

Meraki Insights (MI) is designed to give Meraki customers an easy way to monitor the performance of web applications and WAN Links on their network and easily identify if any issues are likely being caused by the network (LAN or WAN) or the application server. The data used by MI is based on end-user HTTP/S data that’s already traversing the MX appliance and does not need synthetic probing.

With the ThousandEyes integration, customers can now benefit from enhanced visibility and alerting capabilities by creating customized network and application testing for critical applications inside or outside their infrastructure. For example, a customer can now monitor their internal DNS server response time and availability, as well as measure the average resolution time for a specific domain.

Definitions

  • Tenant: The target domain in the test template.

Supported Devices and System Requirements

Meraki Device
Supported Test Types
Firmware Requirements
Mode
  • MX67

  • MX67W

  • MX67C

  • MX68

  • MX68W

  • MX68CW

  • MX75

  • MX85

  • MX95

  • MX105

  • MX250

  • MX450

MX 18.104 or higher.

NAT Mode is required. Meraki devices running in Concentrator mode are not supported.

Licensing

Meraki Licensing

To take advantage of the ThousandEyes - Meraki integration, you will need:

  • The SD-WAN+ license (for agent installation and test deployment), or

  • The Advanced Security license (for agent installation only)

ThousandEyes Licensing

Connectivity

In addition to the standard firewall configuration, Meraki devices will need to reach the following cloud endpoint via HTTPS:

  • registry.meraki-applications.com

Installation and Setup

Limitations

  • Transaction and page load tests are not supported.

  • Using an Enterprise Agent installed on a Meraki device as the target agent of an agent to agent test / RTP test is not supported.

  • vMX is not supported.

  • Meraki EU region’s organization can only be mapped to ThousandEyes EU accounts.

  • All non-EU Meraki organizations can only be linked to ThousandEyes US accounts.

Account Restrictions

  • ThousandEyes Account Admin users with the local auth permission can link two accounts.

  • Users who have active ThousandEyes user accounts cannot create a new ThousandEyes account as part of the workflow.

  • The Meraki account needs to have at least two administrators.

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