🚫 🔍 [Deprecated] Cisco Meraki

🚫 Deprecated: This connector has been deprecated and may be removed in future versions.

🔍 Discovered: This item was discovered by scanning the solution folder but is not listed in the Solution JSON file.

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Attribute Value
Connector ID CiscoMeraki
Publisher Cisco
Used in Solutions CiscoMeraki
Collection Method AMA
Connector Definition Files Connector_Syslog_CiscoMeraki.json

The Cisco Meraki connector allows you to easily connect your Cisco Meraki (MX/MR/MS) logs with Microsoft Sentinel. This gives you more insight into your organization's network and improves your security operation capabilities.

Additional Information

🛠️ Device Configuration: Table: meraki_CL. Configure syslog daemon with filtering for flows, urls, ids-alerts, events, ip_flow_start, ip_flow_end. Configure Meraki syslog. See Custom Logs via AMA configuration.

Tables Ingested

This connector ingests data into the following tables:

Table Selection Criteria Transformations Ingestion API Lake-Only
CiscoMerakiNativePoller_CL ? ✓ ?
Syslog ✓ ✓ ✓
meraki_CL ✓ ✓ ✓

💡 Tip: Tables with Ingestion API support allow data ingestion via the Azure Monitor Data Collector API, which also enables custom transformations during ingestion.

Permissions

Resource Provider Permissions:

Custom Permissions:

Setup Instructions

⚠️ Note: These instructions were automatically generated from the connector's user interface definition file using AI and may not be fully accurate. Please verify all configuration steps in the Microsoft Sentinel portal.

NOTE: This data connector depends on a parser based on a Kusto Function to work as expected which is deployed as part of the solution. To view the function code in Log Analytics, open Log Analytics/Microsoft Sentinel Logs blade, click Functions and search for the alias CiscoMeraki and load the function code or click here. The function usually takes 10-15 minutes to activate after solution installation/update.

1. Install and onboard the agent for Linux

Typically, you should install the agent on a different computer from the one on which the logs are generated.

Syslog logs are collected only from Linux agents. Choose where to install the agent:

Install agent on Azure Linux Virtual Machine

Select the machine to install the agent on and then click Connect.

Install agent on a non-Azure Linux Machine

Download the agent on the relevant machine and follow the instructions.

2. Configure the logs to be collected

Follow the configuration steps below to get Cisco Meraki device logs into Microsoft Sentinel. Refer to the Azure Monitor Documentation for more details on these steps. For Cisco Meraki logs, we have issues while parsing the data by OMS agent data using default settings. So we advice to capture the logs into custom table meraki_CL using below instructions.

  1. Login to the server where you have installed OMS agent.

  2. Download config file meraki.conf wget -v https://aka.ms/sentinel-ciscomerakioms-conf -O meraki.conf

  3. Copy meraki.conf to the /etc/opt/microsoft/omsagent/workspace_id/conf/omsagent.d/ folder. cp meraki.conf /etc/opt/microsoft/omsagent/<<workspace_id>>/conf/omsagent.d/

  4. Edit meraki.conf as follows:

    a. meraki.conf uses the port 22033 by default. Ensure this port is not being used by any other source on your server

    b. If you would like to change the default port for meraki.conf make sure that you dont use default Azure monitoring /log analytic agent ports I.e.(For example CEF uses TCP port 25226 or 25224)

    c. replace workspace_id with real value of your Workspace ID (lines 14,15,16,19)

  5. Save changes and restart the Azure Log Analytics agent for Linux service with the following command: sudo /opt/microsoft/omsagent/bin/service_control restart

  6. Modify /etc/rsyslog.conf file - add below template preferably at the beginning / before directives section $template meraki,"%timestamp% %hostname% %msg%\n"

  7. Create a custom conf file in /etc/rsyslog.d/ for example 10-meraki.conf and add following filter conditions.

    With an added statement you will need to create a filter which will specify the logs coming from the Cisco Meraki to be forwarded to the custom table.

    reference: Filter Conditions — rsyslog 8.18.0.master documentation

    Here is an example of filtering that can be defined, this is not complete and will require additional testing for each installation. if $rawmsg contains "flows" then @@127.0.0.1:22033;meraki & stop if $rawmsg contains "firewall" then @@127.0.0.1:22033;meraki & stop if $rawmsg contains "urls" then @@127.0.0.1:22033;meraki & stop if $rawmsg contains "ids-alerts" then @@127.0.0.1:22033;meraki & stop if $rawmsg contains "events" then @@127.0.0.1:22033;meraki & stop if $rawmsg contains "ip_flow_start" then @@127.0.0.1:22033;meraki & stop if $rawmsg contains "ip_flow_end" then @@127.0.0.1:22033;meraki & stop

  8. Restart rsyslog systemctl restart rsyslog

3. Configure and connect the Cisco Meraki device(s)

Follow these instructions to configure the Cisco Meraki device(s) to forward syslog. Use the IP address or hostname for the Linux device with the Linux agent installed as the Destination IP address.

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