u/GethersJ

Meraki logs every config change but gives you no way to roll one back, so we built the rollback
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Meraki logs every config change but gives you no way to roll one back, so we built the rollback

Full disclosure up front: my co-founder and I built this and it is a paid product. We run a small software company in Wales and this is the tool we wanted every time a Meraki change went wrong.

The pattern will be familiar. A template edit or firewall rule change goes out, something breaks, and the dashboard can tell you that something changed but it will not put it back. So you rebuild from screenshots, memory and whatever the last engineer left behind. If that engineer has left the company, you are guessing. To be precise about the gap: everything in Meraki is reachable over the API, but no config history is kept, so there is nothing native to roll back to. The history is the part we built.

ONbackup (onbackup.co.uk) takes scheduled, versioned snapshots of your Meraki config (MX, MS, MR and org-wide settings) and lets you restore a whole network or a single element (an SSID, a VLAN, firewall rules, a switch port) back to any snapshot. Before it applies a restore it snapshots the current state first, so you can undo a restore as well. It also alerts on drift, so you know when config changed outside a change window. Setup is one API key. No agents, no hardware.

It is on the Cisco Meraki Marketplace (marketplace.cisco.com/en-US/apps/851506/onbackup---meraki-backup). Pricing is public on the site, from £790 a year for 25 networks (onbackup.co.uk/pricing), and checkout is self-serve.

Two things we would like from this sub: which config elements do you most wish you could roll back, because that drives our roadmap, and if anyone wants to try it, DM me and we will set you up with a trial the same day. No call, no pitch.

u/GethersJ — 4 days ago