Cisco Catalyst Center
Cisco Catalyst Center, formerly DNA Center, is Cisco's intent-based networking controller for enterprise campus, branch and wireless networks. It covers network design and hierarchy, device discovery and provisioning, software image management, SD-Access fabric, policy, telemetry and Assurance analytics. Catalyst Center exposes a northbound REST Intent API under /dna/intent/api/v1 plus an Assurance data API under /dna/data/api/v1, authenticated with an X-Auth-Token bearer token obtained from a Basic-auth token endpoint. Cisco publishes 27 OpenAPI 3.0 documents for the Assurance surface in the cisco-en-programmability GitHub organization, a first-party open-source MCP server bundling 516 generated Catalyst Center API tools, Python and Go SDKs, Ansible collections and a Terraform provider. The controller is customer-deployed, so the API base URL is the customer's own appliance host; Cisco runs always-on DevNet sandboxes for anonymous evaluation.
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API Evangelist profiles Cisco Catalyst Center the way a machine reads it — 38 machine-readable artifacts across 30 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.
Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Cisco Catalyst Center scores 66.3/100 (strong), with a separate agent-readiness read of 53/100 (agent ready). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.
Kin Score
This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.
Kin Score
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How we profile Cisco Catalyst Center
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Cisco Catalyst Center. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.
APIs 30
Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
Cisco Catalyst Center MCP Server
First-party open-source Model Context Protocol server for Catalyst Center, published by Cisco under Apache-2.0 at cisco-en-programmability/catc-mcp-oss. It is self-hosted: the o...
Cisco Catalyst Center AAA Services API
Operations related to Catalyst Center - Assurance Network Services
Cisco Catalyst Center Application Health Score Definitions API
Operations related to application health score definitions.
Cisco Catalyst Center Assurance Events API
APIs related to assurance events
Cisco Catalyst Center Assurance Tasks API
Operations related to retrieving information regarding assurance tasks
Cisco Catalyst Center Clients API
Operations related to Catalyst Center - Assurance Network Clients
Cisco Catalyst Center Custom Issue Definitions API
Assurance Custom issue definition API documentation
Cisco Catalyst Center DHCP Services API
Operations related to Catalyst Center - Assurance Network Services
Cisco Catalyst Center Direct Deploy API
APIs to deploy ICAP configurations without previewing the intents.
Cisco Catalyst Center DNS Services API
Operations related to Catalyst Center - Assurance Network Services
Cisco Catalyst Center Energy API
Operations related to retrieving overall energy information for Catalyst Center Devices
Cisco Catalyst Center Fabric Site Health Summaries API
The fabricSiteHealthSummaries API from Cisco Catalyst Center — 4 operation(s) for fabricsitehealthsummaries.
Cisco Catalyst Center Fabric Summary API
The fabricSummary API from Cisco Catalyst Center — 1 operation(s) for fabricsummary.
Cisco Catalyst Center Filter Group Associations API
The filterGroupAssociations API from Cisco Catalyst Center — 2 operation(s) for filtergroupassociations.
Cisco Catalyst Center Filter Groups API
Filter Group is a collection of predefined filters. When this Filter Group is associated with an entity, those filters are applied on that entity.This APIs under `filterGroups` ...
Cisco Catalyst Center Icap API
Operations related to Catalyst Center - Assurance Intelligent Capture
Cisco Catalyst Center Interface List API
The interfaceList API from Cisco Catalyst Center — 6 operation(s) for interfacelist.
Cisco Catalyst Center Issues API
Operations related to Catalyst Center - Assurance Issues
Cisco Catalyst Center Network Applications API
Operations related to Catalyst Center - Appx Network Applications
Cisco Catalyst Center Network Devices API
Operations related to Catalyst Center - Gets the Network Device details
Cisco Catalyst Center Preview Deploy API
APIs to preview, approve, and cancel (discard) ICAP provisioning intents.
Cisco Catalyst Center Resource API
APIs to retrieve the resources that were previewed or deployed.
Cisco Catalyst Center Site Analytics API
The siteAnalytics API from Cisco Catalyst Center — 8 operation(s) for siteanalytics.
Cisco Catalyst Center Site Health Summaries API
Operations related to retrieving overall health information for Catalyst Center Sites
Cisco Catalyst Center Status API
APIs to check the status of ICAP deployment operation.
Cisco Catalyst Center System Issue And Health Score Definitions API
Operations related to system issue trigger definitions and health score definitions.
Cisco Catalyst Center Thousand Eyes Path Trace API
Operations related to path traces for ThousandEyes test results
Cisco Catalyst Center Thousand Eyes Test Results API
Operations related to ThousandEyes test results
Cisco Catalyst Center Transit Network Health Summaries API
The transitNetworkHealthSummaries API from Cisco Catalyst Center — 4 operation(s) for transitnetworkhealthsummaries.
Cisco Catalyst Center Virtual Network Health Summaries API
The virtualNetworkHealthSummaries API from Cisco Catalyst Center — 4 operation(s) for virtualnetworkhealthsummaries.
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MCP Servers 1
Model Context Protocol servers expose these APIs directly to AI agents. We profile them because agent-native access is the fastest-growing way this provider's capabilities actually get used.
Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.
Cisco Catalyst Center MCP Server
MCP SERVERPricing Plans 1
Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the things the Kin Score reads for access clarity — renamed from commercial clarity in rubric 0.12, because a free statutory interface has access terms and no commercial ones.
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Rate Limits 1
Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
Cisco Catalyst Center Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSEvent Specifications 1
Not every API is request/response. AsyncAPI describes the event-driven and streaming side — the webhooks and channels — so the asynchronous half of the interface is documented the same way the synchronous half is.
AsyncAPI definitions for this provider's event-driven and streaming APIs.
Cisco Catalyst Center Webhooks
ASYNCAPISecurity Posture 4
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Resources
Every other property we hold for Cisco Catalyst Center — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.
Get Started 7
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
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Documentation 2
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 4
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 6
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
Build 6
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 7
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
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Operate 5
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 4
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 1
The organization behind the API
Other 30
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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