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[![Request a Meraki Demo](https://blog.iptel.com.au/hs-fs/hubfs/Meraki%20Automation%20and%20New%20Features/Meraki%20Automation%20and%20New%20Features%20(1)-still.jpg?width=737&height=415&name=Meraki%20Automation%20and%20New%20Features%20(1)-still.jpg)](https://iptel.com.au/free-meraki-demo) Meraki is at its core a GUI based cloud managed ecosystem. What though if you want more control, or you want to provision equipment at scale – let’s explore the world of Meraki Automation. Related reading - [Meraki Cloud Wi-Fi](https://blog.iptel.com.au/meraki-cloud-wifi) - [Cisco Meraki](https://iptel.com.au/technologies/cisco-meraki) - [Meraki Made Simple](https://blog.iptel.com.au/blog/meraki-made-simple-meet-dave) --- ## Meraki Automation [![Meraki Cloud Wi-Fi](https://blog.iptel.com.au/hs-fs/hubfs/Blogs/Meraki%20Cloud%20Wi-Fi/Meraki%20Cloud%20Wi-Fi%20-%20Instagram.png?width=240&height=201&name=Meraki%20Cloud%20Wi-Fi%20-%20Instagram.png)](https://blog.iptel.com.au/meraki-cloud-wifi)The core functionality of Meraki is the dashboard. There is no CLI. This was hard to understand at first, but Meraki is configured in the cloud and once connected, it downloads its config. It sounds odd – but it just works. Using the cloud to configure the Meraki product set itself would prove quite limiting – which is why Meraki has an API. The API really opens up what you can do – plenty of scripting opportunities if you want to automate your network installs. It's pretty handy for monitoring your deployments too – you can collect key stats and use this to provide advanced alerting and analytics. Meraki does have analytics built in of course, but the ability to pull custom information specific to your use can be very flexible. Related reading - [Managed Network Services: 5 Benefits for Your Business](https://blog.iptel.com.au/managed-services-top-5-benefits) - [Top 8 Secrets to Great Wi-Fi](https://info.iptel.com.au/top-8-wi-fi-secrets) - [Wi-Fi Design: Business Requirements](https://blog.iptel.com.au/wi-fi-design-business-requirements) - [Wi-Fi Design: Technical Requirements](https://blog.iptel.com.au/wi-fi-design-technical-requirements) - [Managed Services](https://iptel.com.au/managed-services-enquiry) --- ## New Dashboard Features [![Managed Meraki SD-WAN: What the Service Covers](https://blog.iptel.com.au/hs-fs/hubfs/Blogs/Managed%20Meraki%20SD-WAN/managed-meraki-sd-wan-square.png?width=245&height=245&name=managed-meraki-sd-wan-square.png)](https://blog.iptel.com.au/managed-services-meraki-sd-wan)As promised, let’s take a look at the new Meraki dashboard features. We have a speciality in the field of Wi-Fi at IPTel Solutions, so the features below are predominantly more in the Wi-Fi space – but seeing as that’s a critical technology for most of our customers, these are valuable features to explore. **Port Management:** Set up a profile for a switchport and what it can access – this can then be easily pushed out to the network to speed up network deployment. **Digital Optical Monitoring:** The digital optical monitoring feature allows the monitoring of optics. This feature has been around a while, but the new bit is the predictive failure analysis. As an optic starts to fail, it produces certain behaviour, so this feature looks for those signatures and can alert based on a likely failure – pretty cool. **Topology**: Meraki has improved the topology layout in the dashboard. There’s a great new feature though – the ability to export the topology to Visio – this has been a much wanted feature for a long time, so great to see this in the feature set. **Wireless Experience Dashboard**: This new feature shows how the wireless health of your network stacks up. Associated with this, is a future feature, called “Automated Test Scheduler”. This is used to connect to adjacent APs and run synthetic traffic – great for testing out how your clients see the world. Roaming is the key point in wireless where devices drop out, so Meraki show the Contextual **Client Roaming Analytics:** This is super handy when you are fault finding device drop outs, while they are roaming. **Support Chat:** Meraki have added the support chat to the dashboard. Arguably it should have been there all along, but it's there now – albeit in a fledgling way. Related reading - [Cisco Meraki Access Points](https://blog.iptel.com.au/cisco-meraki-access-points) - [Cisco Meraki Switching](https://blog.iptel.com.au/cisco-meraki-switching) --- ## Meraki Automation: FAQs ### How Can Meraki Be Automated? Through the Meraki Dashboard API, configuration templates and tools that apply consistent settings across many networks. ### What Is the Meraki Dashboard API? A REST API that lets scripts and other platforms read and change Meraki configuration and pull monitoring data. ### Why Use Configuration Templates? Templates let many similar sites share one configuration, so changes are made once and applied everywhere. ### Do I Need Coding Skills to Automate Meraki? Not always. Templates and dashboard features cover many needs, while the API opens up further automation for teams with scripting skills. --- ## Meraki Automation and New Features: Summary [![Meraki Dashboard](https://blog.iptel.com.au/hs-fs/hubfs/Campaigns/Meraki/Its%20time%20for%20Meraki/Its%20Time%20for%20Meraki%202.gif?width=240&height=240&name=Its%20Time%20for%20Meraki%202.gif)](https://blog.iptel.com.au/cisco-meraki-dashboard)This blog has been about looking over some new features coming to the Meraki dashboard and how to automate for larger scale deployments.  If you need help with a large-scale deployment, we have an in-house team that specialises in the automation scripting needed, so feel free to drop us a line. The new features are pretty interesting too. Predicting an optics failure means you can schedule a replacement of that hardware at a time convenient for your business – rather than when it just happens to fail. That’s got to be a vote winner with your CIO! Related reading - [Meraki Cloud Wi-Fi](https://blog.iptel.com.au/meraki-cloud-wifi) - [Cisco Meraki Access Points](https://blog.iptel.com.au/cisco-meraki-access-points) - [Cisco Meraki Switching](https://blog.iptel.com.au/cisco-meraki-switching) - [Cisco Meraki Dashboard](https://blog.iptel.com.au/cisco-meraki-dashboard) ### Need Help With Cisco Meraki? IPTel designs, deploys and manages [Cisco Meraki networks](https://iptel.com.au/technologies/cisco-meraki), and Australian organisations can book a [free Meraki demo](https://iptel.com.au/free-meraki-demo). If that would be useful, [get in touch with the IPTel team](https://iptel.com.au/contact-us) or email [sales@iptel.com.au](mailto:sales@iptel.com.au). ## Meraki Made Simple: Meet Dave Want to hear more about Meraki? [![Cisco Meraki - Meet Dave](https://blog.iptel.com.au/hs-fs/hubfs/Blogs/Meraki%20Made%20Simple%20-%20Meet%20Dave/Cisco%20Meraki%20-%20Meet%20Dave%20(Instagram).gif?width=227&height=227&name=Cisco%20Meraki%20-%20Meet%20Dave%20(Instagram).gif)](https://blog.iptel.com.au/blog/meraki-made-simple-meet-dave) Meet Dave. Dave is an IT Manager with an ever-growing list of requirements from his network. Dave has a lot of network challenges and a lot of new devices and applications to look after.   In this short video, [we explore how Dave can tame his network, reduce costs, centrally manage AND add functionality to his network](https://blog.iptel.com.au/blog/meraki-made-simple-meet-dave).    If you're interested to hear more about how Meraki can help your business, email us at [sales@iptel.com.au](mailto:sales@iptel.com.au) or complete our [Request a Quote](https://iptel.com.au/request-a-quote) form, if you're ready for some pricing.   #### Related Articles ###### [Meraki AI Features](https://blog.iptel.com.au/meraki-ai-features) Mar 12, 2026 ###### [Meraki Backup](https://blog.iptel.com.au/meraki-backup) May 12, 2026 ###### [Automating Meraki](https://blog.iptel.com.au/automating-meraki) Apr 24, 2025 ```json { "@context" : "https://schema.org", "@type" : "BlogPosting", "author" : { "@type" : "Person", "name" : "Mark McSherry", "url" : "https://blog.iptel.com.au/author/mark-mcsherry" }, "dateModified" : "2026-10-03T00:32:02.046Z", "datePublished" : "2025-03-28T03:40:07.000Z", "headline" : "Meraki Automation and New Dashboard Features | IPTel", "image" : [ "https://blog.iptel.com.au/hubfs/Meraki%20Automation%20and%20New%20Features/Meraki%20Automation%20and%20New%20Features%20(Instagram%20Post)%20(1).png" ], "mainEntityOfPage" : { "@id" : "https://blog.iptel.com.au/meraki-automation-and-new-features", "@type" : "WebPage" }, "publisher" : { "@type" : "Organization", "logo" : { "@type" : "ImageObject", "url" : "https://blog.iptel.com.au/hubfs/IPTel_Solutions_February2020%20-%20Header%20SiteMap/Images/IPTellogo-byline-2020-dark-v2.png" }, "name" : "IPTel Solutions Pty Ltd" } } ```