You will be redirected to a page saying that your application has been registered.Check I agree to the terms of service and click Register.Select one or more APIs you plan to use with this application (this can be changed later).In the OAuth2.0 Credentials section check only the Client Credentials checkbox.This can be anything and is needed only to distinguish between different applications To use any of the APIs you first need to register your application. Cisco API ConsoleĪt last, after finishing all the administrative quests we can proceed to the technical part. I couldn't bypass the entitlement check when opening a case as its described in the guide, so I had to click the "Chat Now" button and ask for support (to open a support case ).įortunately, they responded quickly and created a case on my behalf.Īll I needed to provide was our company PSS contract number and a list of APIs I needed access to.Īfter that, it took about 2 days for the actual support case to complete. When I followed this guide to open a support case I ran into an issue. The detailed guide can be found here, but there is a catch. This is the path I took as our company has Cisco partner status. Assign API developer role to your account.Become your company administrator by following this guide.Ask them to assign that role to your account.Find out who in your company is a company administrator by clicking on Contact Company Administrator.Your Cisco account must have an API developer role. OnboardingĪssuming you have the contract number you need to perform the following tasks to acquire access to APIs. Why Cisco demands having a contract to access those APIs is beyound my comprehension.
Postman console software#
This is actually pretty lame because information such as EoX announcements and recommended software is publicly available. Without a contract, you can only get access to a couple of APIs, and the only useful one is the PSIRT openVuln API. You need a valid contract with Cisco, either SNTC or PSS (Partner Support Service) to get access to Support APIs. Find out what devices in your network had EoL announcedĪs for me, I find EoX and Software Suggestion as most useful in my daily work, because I do customer network audits often.Find a recommended software image for a device and download it.Here is a few examples of what can be done with it: Actually, Cisco Support API is an umbrella term which includes the following APIs:Īs you can see its quite a lot. This post takes Cisco Support API as an example.
Here is the list of all available Data APIs:
Postman console how to#
In this post, I would like to make a quick introduction on how to make use of Cisco Support APIs.Ĭisco has several Data APIs which allow their partners and customers to consume a lot of different information about their products and services programmatically.
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