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.
Cisco Catalyst Center publishes 30 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including AAA Services API, Application Health Score Definitions API, Assurance Events API, and 27 more. Tagged areas include Network Automation, Intent-Based Networking, Networking, Assurance, and Enterprise.
The Cisco Catalyst Center catalog on APIs.io includes 1 event-driven AsyncAPI specification and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.
Cisco Catalyst Center’s developer surface includes developer portal, documentation, API reference, sandbox, changelog, authentication, getting-started guide, and 68 more developer resources.
What this lets a business do 1
Business capabilities this provider's published APIs can perform, derived from its own contracts. Browse all capabilities →
Kin Score
Markets this provider is in provisional
The Kin Score Market layer reads a provider inside its market: its position, and how deep its integrations go. Depth is only comparable within a position. Provisional and unweighted: not part of the Kin Score or agent readiness.
| Market | Position | Depth | Registered MCP server | Declares compatibility |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cisco DevNet Ecosystem (builders on Meraki, Catalyst, ISE, ThousandEyes, Splunk) | gravity | 51.8 | - | - |
| Configuration-Management Content Registries (Ansible Galaxy, Chef Supermarket) | gravity | 51.8 | - | - |
Registered MCP server and declares compatibility are report only — not weighted. Undeclared means we found nothing we can read, so there is no number: we never infer integrations.
Standards implemented 2
Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.
APIs 30
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 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.
Cisco Catalyst Center Network Devices API
Operations related to Catalyst Center - Gets the Network Device details
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MCP Servers 1
Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.
Agent Skills 4
Packaged agent skills for driving this provider's APIs from an AI assistant.
Investigate wireless client experience
AGENT SKILLTriage unhealthy network devices at a site
AGENT SKILLTune issue and health score definitions
AGENT SKILLCisco Catalyst Center API pricing
Rate limits
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Pricing Plans 1
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Rate Limits 1
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
Cisco Catalyst Center Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSFinOps 1
Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.
Event Specifications 1
AsyncAPI definitions for this provider's event-driven and streaming APIs.
Cisco Catalyst Center Webhooks
ASYNCAPISpectral Rules 1
Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.
Cisco Catalyst Center API Rules
SPECTRALOpenAPI Overlays 27
Overlays applied on top of this provider's contracts. Each card says who wrote it: a document the provider publishes, or one API Evangelist derived or generated.
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Security Posture 4
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Resources
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 5
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 2
The organization behind the API
Other 31
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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Source (apis.yml)
Cisco Catalyst Center API — frequently asked questions
Does Cisco Catalyst Center have an API?
Yes. APIs.io lists 30 APIs from Cisco Catalyst Center, including Cisco Catalyst Center MCP Server, Cisco Catalyst Center AAA Services API and Cisco Catalyst Center Application Health Score Definitions API, and 27 more.
Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Cisco Catalyst Center API?
Yes. APIs.io indexes 29 OpenAPI specifications for Cisco Catalyst Center, each linked for download from this page.
How do I authenticate with the Cisco Catalyst Center API?
Cisco Catalyst Center uses bearer-token authentication (http/apiKey · 2 schemes). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Cisco Catalyst Center Authentication.
Does Cisco Catalyst Center have an MCP server?
Yes. APIs.io lists 1 MCP server for Cisco Catalyst Center: MCP server; 516 tools listed.
Is the Cisco Catalyst Center API ready for AI agents?
Cisco Catalyst Center has a Kin Score of 61.9 out of 100 (strong) and an Agent Readiness score of 37.7 (agent-ready), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.
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