Organization Summary
Overview
The Summary page is designed to help you efficiently manage the networks within your Organization. It provides a detailed overview, of your devices allowing you to identify issues that require attention quickly. Additionally, the page offers detailed information on each of your networks. This tool aims to help you focus on critical tasks and improve network functionality by providing details on all of your Meraki devices and networks.
To reach the Summary page, go to Organization > Monitor > Summary, in your Meraki Dashboard.
Only dashboard connectivity-related alerts are reflected on this page, such as Device(s) VLAN Mismatch, Misconfigured DNS and Bad IP Assignment Configuration, offline devices etc. In comparison, the Organization > Alert's page, provides more granular view - Organization Alerts and Alert Hub.
Devices
This section provides an overview of the status of all devices within the organization. This summary includes a clear distinction between online and offline devices, using color-coded indicators for easy identification: green for online devices and red for offline devices. This visual representation allows administrators to quickly assess the health of their networks and identify any issues that need immediate attention. Additionally, the summaries offer a snapshot of the overall network performance, making monitoring and maintaining network stability easier.
Clicking on one of the Alerting Cards under the Devices section will reveal the details on the specific device having issues, and the network it is a part of.
Networks
This section shows a detailed listing of all networks. It includes summarized data on various aspects such as the number of clients connected, data usage, and the Network tags assigned to each network. This information is crucial for understanding the overall network traffic and identifying patterns or anomalies. Additionally, from this page administrators can select a network to delve deeper into its specific status and obtain more detailed information. This feature enables more granular network performance analysis and helps make informed decisions for network optimization and troubleshooting.
Organization Assurance Public Beta
You can opt in to a new landing page experience with an assurance-focused view. This page allows you to understand your organization's health across networks, identify problematic networks, and quickly drill down into specific issues at the network level. This complements the Assurance Overview page by providing an organization-level perspective of your organization's health.
Initially, this is being enabled gradually in a measured rollout. If your organization is eligible, you will see an opt-in toggle in the top right corner of the page as well as an option to opt out in the same location once enabled to facilitate returning to the original interface during the beta period.
There is also a configurable switch on the Early Access page Organization > Early Access to enable and disable the beta.
Note: This is an organization level configuration
Device Status
This section provides an overview of the status of all devices within your organization. It allows you to easily monitor and quickly identify problematic devices, including devices that are currently offline or was previously offline. There are 3 different statuses devices can have:
- Online: currently online
- Offline: currently offline
- Recovered: previously offline during the time frame selected, but is currently online
Clicking on the device links will open a side drawer to show the offline and recovered devices, which networks they are part of, and their connectivity status over the selected time range.
Organization Insights
This section provides a snapshot of the organization's health across networks including trends and insights. It summarizes how many networks are impacted with a poor or fair network health score. Additionally, it highlights trending networks with the largest drop in the network health score, helping you identify degrading networks. The Organization Insights section provides an executive summary so you can quickly scan and monitor your organization health in a few seconds.
Networks by Health Score
This section lists all networks in your organization with the overall network health score and the individual score components: clients, network devices, infrastructure connectivity, and applications (Configure ThousandEyes on your Meraki MX). It allows you to easily identify the network with the lowest health score and quickly pin point the specific issue at the network level. You can search, filter, and sort to facilitate more efficient troubleshooting. The network table provides the detailed views you need to troubleshoot and quickly peek in and out of networks.
Clicking on the ">" icon next to the network name will expand the table and provide a snapshot of that network's health. This allows you to quickly drill down to the specific issues at the network level and understand the number of clients, devices, or applications impacted.
Note: We only show the top issue affecting the most clients in this view with the exception of the Infrastructure connectivity section which indicates the highest device/technology affected in the topology following this logic WAN >> VPN >> LAN >> RF i.e. When both WAN and VPN are impacted, it will only show WAN for example no matter how many VPN tunnels are also impacted.
The expandable section gives you flexibility and speed to troubleshoot multiple networks while pinpointing the root cause within a few clicks.
Clicking on the network name (left column) or 'View network' hyperlink (top right of expanded section) will take you to the network Assurance Overview page for deeper troubleshooting. More information about this page can be found here Network Assurance Overview.
