Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN
Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN, built on the Viptela platform Cisco acquired in 2017, is Cisco's wide-area network overlay: centralized policy, application-aware routing, and secure transport across MPLS, broadband and LTE. Its controller — SD-WAN Manager, formerly vManage — exposes a REST API of 4,138 published operations across 2,841 paths, documented on Cisco DevNet as thirteen OpenAPI 3.1.0 documents at release 26.1.0. The controller is customer-operated, so the base URL is each customer's own instance at https://
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API Evangelist profiles Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN the way a machine reads it — 23 machine-readable artifacts across 13 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 SD-WAN scores 65.0/100 (strong), with a separate agent-readiness read of 43/100 (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
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Kin Score
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How we profile Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN. 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 13
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 SD-WAN Manager API — Administration and Settings
Administration and platform settings operations on Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager: user and group administration, role assignment, authentication events (server-sent), and the co...
Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager API — UX 1.0 Configuration
The UX 1.0 (classic) configuration surface: device templates, feature templates, template attach/detach and the full policy builder — data, control, application-aware routing, s...
Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager API — UX 2.0 Configuration
The UX 2.0 configuration surface: configuration groups, policy groups and topology groups, the group-based provisioning model that replaces device templates.
Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager API — Feature Profiles - SD-WAN System
UX 2.0 system feature profiles for the SD-WAN solution: AAA, BFD, logging, NTP, OMP, security, SNMP, global and basic system parcels.
Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager API — Feature Profiles - SD-WAN Transport
UX 2.0 transport feature profiles for the SD-WAN solution: WAN VPN and its interfaces (ethernet, cellular, GRE, IPsec, T1/E1, DSL), routing, trackers, management VPN and cellula...
Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager API — Feature Profiles - SD-WAN Service
UX 2.0 service (VPN-side) feature profiles for the SD-WAN solution: LAN VPN and interfaces, DHCP server, routing (BGP/OSPF/multicast), switchport, wireless LAN, trackers, AppQoE...
Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager API — Feature Profiles - Others
The remaining UX 2.0 SD-WAN feature profiles: application priority, DNS security, embedded security, other profiles, policy objects, service-insertion, SIG security and SSE.
Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager API — Feature Profiles - SD-Routing
UX 2.0 feature profiles for the SD-Routing solution: system, transport and service profiles for routers managed by SD-WAN Manager without the SD-WAN overlay.
Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager API — Feature Profiles - Mobility and NFV
UX 2.0 feature profiles for Cisco Catalyst mobility (cellular gateway) and NFVirtual deployments: network, compute, cluster and networks parcels.
Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager API — Monitoring and Troubleshooting
The monitoring, real-time monitoring and troubleshooting surface of Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager: device health and statistics, BFD, BGP, OMP, control connections, application-...
Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager API — SD-WAN Services
Cloud and interconnect services operated through Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager: multicloud gateways and accounts, Multicloud Interconnect connectivity, entitlement and resource ...
Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager API — Partner Integrations
Partner and third-party integration operations: Cisco Catalyst Center (DNAC) SDA, ACI policy builder, Cisco ISE servers, Umbrella, Webex cloud service, Cisco software licensing ...
Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager API — Others
The remainder of the SD-WAN Manager surface: device inventory and certificates, software and image management, disaster recovery, multitenancy and tenant management, cluster man...
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MCP Servers 2
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 SD-WAN MCP Server
MCP SERVERCisco Catalyst SD-WAN 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 Sdwan 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 Sdwan 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.
Scopes 1
OAuth scopes are the vocabulary of least-privilege access. Profiling them shows exactly what an integration — or an agent acting on a user's behalf — is allowed to do.
OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.
Resources
Every other property we hold for Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN — 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 5
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Learn 1
Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance
Operate 5
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 3
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 1
The organization behind the API
Other 4
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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