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Using the Meraki Dashboard API with Postman

Instructions: Here.

I could have opened up my Macbook (Because Postman was already on there), but no, I'm here, and here is what we're gonna do.

Oddly, the installer executable loaded *behind* my browser window and froze it, so I had to restart. A short time later, Postman is installed and operational.





Value updated. Would we normally display the value like this?



 I do so here because well, it's publicly available on the DevNet site.

 Getting the organization ID took a little time. See the URL bar to the right of SEND?


I had copied and pasted in the full URL from the instructions, telling it to look for a path that didn't exist. Now I have the organization ID; Thanks to this handy tutorial from the Postman staff.
Listed networks in an organization. We use the found ID and the URL.



Update Serial and NetworkID:


Get the idea yet?


You can replace the values in the fields marked {{networkId}} or {{serialId}}, but take a look at this;


The value is already held.

I'm not a hardcore developer, so that's about the gist of it. Now I know the basics of how to fetch information of individual devices on specific networks.

EMPLOYERS: Whoo, I can follow instructions clearly laid out! Big deal, I know. Check out my Ubuntu work for actual problem solving and researching.
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