Cisco Meraki Plugin for EfficientIP Cloud Observer

Boost Discovery for Comprehensive Visibility Across Hybrid Multicloud Networks

Read the solution note about the Cisco Meraki plugin for EfficientIP Cloud Observer.

Digital transformation has led to new, fast, and ever-changing business needs and technologies. In this context, cloud-first networks have emerged, bringing significant change with dynamic scalability, increased flexibility, and easy automation. But the transition to cloud networks will not happen overnight, and the reality for most network teams is to handle hybrid cloud or multicloud networks.

Managing these diverse environments is no easy task. The underlying complexity can be overwhelming for IT teams. First, visibility gaps compound the difficulty, as traditional monitoring tools struggle to provide deep insights across cloud and on-premises setups, leading to inefficient resource usage, shadow IT, and creating blind spots that can be exploited by sophisticated cyber threats. In addition, disparate and decentralized data can lead to convoluted automation flows, increasing the risk of repetitive manual processing, configuration errors, and operational inefficiencies. Security risks are increased and exacerbated by the difficulty of maintaining and managing consistent security policies across different environments. Finally, maintaining regulatory compliance across these multifaceted networks adds another layer of difficulty, making effective network management a constant challenge.

In this new paradigm, Cisco Meraki cloud networking and EfficientIP DNS, DHCP, and IP address management (DDI) platforms play a key role. By integrating them, networking teams can address the above issues, build a solid foundation for a holistic view across disparate infrastructures, and gain efficiency and agility in network management.

Unlocking Holistic Network Object Visibility

EfficientIP’s Cloud Observer gives network teams a unified view of what’s running in their clouds. It automatically and continuously discovers, tracks, and consolidates cloud-provisioned resources, including network properties, across your public and private cloud environments such as Amazon AWS, Google GCP, Microsoft Azure, VMware vCenter, and now Cisco Meraki.

The Cloud Observer Cisco Meraki Plugin further elevates network visibility by providing automated discovery of Meraki products such as wireless, switches, secure SD-WAN appliances, mobile devices, or IoT deployed and managed by Cisco Meraki for hybrid multicloud infrastructures.