Create Network

Dashboard Location: Organization > Configure > General > Network-wide

Network creation in Meraki establishes the foundational infrastructure for organizing and managing devices within your Meraki deployment. Networks serve as logical containers that group devices by function, location, or organizational structure. Each network defines the product types it supports, timezone settings, and organizational metadata that enables centralized management and policy application across your infrastructure.

Example-1: The example below demonstrates basic network creation.

This configuration creates a foundational network infrastructure for organizing and managing devices within your Meraki deployment. The network supports all Meraki product types (appliance, switch, wireless, camera, sensor, cellularGateway) and includes timezone settings to Europe/Berlin for accurate operations. Tags admin,dev and emea enable policy-based management and organizational categorization while environment variables support consistent deployments across multiple sites. Notes “Example data.yaml file” are used as example of additional information about this network.

meraki:
  domains:
    - name: !env domain
      administrator:
        name: !env org_admin
      organizations:
        - name: !env org
          networks:
            - name: !env network_name
              product_types:
                - appliance
                - switch
                - wireless
                - camera
                - sensor
                - cellularGateway
              time_zone: Europe/Berlin
              notes: Example data.yaml file
              tags:
                - admin
                - dev
                - emea