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Cisco Expressway

API definitions for Cisco Expressway, a session border controller and firewall traversal solution for Unified Communications that provides secure remote and mobile access for collaboration workloads including video, voice, content, and presence. Programmatic access spans a REST API for configuration (/api/provisioning), a REST API for status and observability (/api/status), an SNMP MIB for metrics, and a legacy XML API for systems still in transition.

agent ready

Solid contracts, transparent operations, and an easy start — typically complete on four or five facets with one clear soft spot.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles Cisco Expressway the way a machine reads it — 54 machine-readable artifacts across 18 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 Expressway scores 68.1/100 (strong), with a separate agent-readiness read of 48/100 (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 Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 68.1/100 · strong
Contract Quality 19.9 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 10.0 / 20
Commercial Clarity 12.6 / 20
Operational Transparency 7.5 / 13
Governance 8.8 / 12
Discoverability 9.3 / 10
Agent readiness — 48/100 · agent ready
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 15 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

How we profile Cisco Expressway

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Cisco Expressway. 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 18

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 Expressway SNMP API

SNMP-based monitoring and management interface for Cisco Expressway providing access to system metrics, alarms, and configuration data. Supports SNMP versions v2c and v3 for sec...

Cisco Expressway XML API

Legacy XML-based API for configuration and status retrieval on Cisco Expressway systems. Uses HTTP Basic Authentication over HTTPS for secure access to system configuration and ...

Cisco Expressway Admin Account API

Administrator account management

Cisco Expressway Alarms API

Active system alarms and warnings

Cisco Expressway Calls API

Active and historical call information

Cisco Expressway DNS API

DNS server configuration management

Cisco Expressway Licensing API

Smart licensing status and usage

Cisco Expressway NTP API

NTP server configuration for time synchronization

Cisco Expressway Registrations API

Device registration status and details

Cisco Expressway Resource Usage API

System resource utilization metrics

Cisco Expressway Search Rules API

Search rule configuration for call routing decisions

Cisco Expressway SFTP API

SFTP configuration for system upgrades

Cisco Expressway SIP API

SIP protocol configuration

Cisco Expressway System API

System-level configuration and information

Cisco Expressway System Status API

System overview and health information

Cisco Expressway Transforms API

Pre-search transform configuration for alias modification

Cisco Expressway Upgrade API

System upgrade operations

Cisco Expressway Zones API

Zone configuration for call routing and firewall traversal

Scroll within the panel for all 18 ·

Postman Collections 2

A runnable collection turns the contract into something a developer can execute in seconds. We profile them because the fastest way to trust an API is to make a real call against it.

Ready-to-run Postman collections for exercising this provider's APIs.

Open Collections 2

Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Arazzo Workflows 15

Real integrations are rarely a single call. Arazzo describes the multi-step sequences — auth, then create, then confirm — so both a human and an agent can follow the choreography, not just the endpoints.

Multi-step API workflows described with the Arazzo specification.

Cisco Expressway Active Call Troubleshooting

List active calls, active TURN relays, and recent call history for media diagnosis.

ARAZZO

Cisco Expressway Capacity and Registrations Audit

Read resource usage, then list registrations and active calls to audit load.

ARAZZO

Cisco Expressway Create Dial Plan Transform

Add a pre-search transform, confirm it, then add a search rule that uses the normalized alias.

ARAZZO

Cisco Expressway Create DNS Zone Routing

Create a DNS zone for endpoint discovery and a search rule that routes to it.

ARAZZO

Cisco Expressway Licensing Compliance Check

Read smart licensing status and branch on registration to read resource usage.

ARAZZO

Cisco Expressway Onboard Neighbor Zone Routing

Create a neighbor zone and a search rule that routes matching calls to it.

ARAZZO

Cisco Expressway Pre-Upgrade Health Check

Read system status, active alarms, and resource usage to gate an upgrade.

ARAZZO

Cisco Expressway Provision DNS Server

Add a DNS server to an Expressway node and confirm it was applied.

ARAZZO

Cisco Expressway Provision NTP Server

Add an NTP time source to an Expressway node and confirm it was applied.

ARAZZO

Cisco Expressway Rotate Admin Password

Identify the node, then change an administrator account password.

ARAZZO

Cisco Expressway Set Up Firewall Traversal Pair

Create the matched server/client zones that form an Expressway-E to Expressway-C traversal.

ARAZZO

Cisco Expressway System Upgrade

Set SFTP details, trigger a software upgrade, then poll upgrade status.

ARAZZO

Cisco Expressway Update SIP Configuration

Read current SIP configuration, apply changes, then confirm via system status.

ARAZZO

Cisco Expressway Upgrade Progress Monitor

Read upgrade status, then read system status to confirm the running version.

ARAZZO

Cisco Expressway Zone Health Investigation

Inspect zone connectivity, active calls, and recent call history together.

ARAZZO

Scroll within the panel for all 15 ·

Pricing 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 six things the Kin Score reads for commercial clarity.

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 Expressway Rate Limits

2 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts give the data shared meaning across APIs. We profile them because semantics are what let a machine reconcile 'customer' here with 'customer' somewhere else.

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Cisco Expressway Context

0 classes · 53 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 2

Governance rulesets we run against this provider's specs — the automated checks behind parts of the score. Profiling them makes the quality bar explicit and re-runnable, not a matter of opinion.

Cisco Expressway API Rules

5 rules · 4 warnings

SPECTRAL

Cisco Expressway API Rules

8 rules · 4 errors · 3 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 7

Standalone JSON Schema definitions describe the data models behind the API. We profile them so the shapes are validatable on their own — useful long after a single request is forgotten.

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

Cisco Expressway Alarm

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Cisco Expressway Call

16 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Cisco Expressway Registration

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Cisco Expressway Search Rule

11 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Cisco Expressway System Status

12 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Cisco Expressway Pre-Search Transform

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Cisco Expressway Zone

32 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Scroll within the panel for all 7 ·

Security Posture 3

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.

Cisco Expressway Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Cisco Expressway Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Cisco Expressway Vulnerability Disclosure

security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Cisco Expressway Agentic Access

47 operations · 26 acting · 3 human-in-the-loop

47 operations · 26 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for Cisco Expressway — 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 4

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Build 2

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

← All providers · Data indexed from github.com/api-evangelist/cisco-expressway · machine-readable index on apis.io