# Cisco Catalyst Center **Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/cisco-catalyst-center/ **Website:** https://developer.cisco.com/ **APIs profiled:** 30 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. ## Kin Score — 66.7 / 100 (exemplar) Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (-0.9 from 67.6). | Facet | Score | |---|---| | Discoverability | 68.5 | | Contract Quality | 65.3 | | Governance | 16.7 | | Contract Governance | 16.7 | | Operational Transparency | 68.4 | | Developer Ergonomics | 73.2 | | Commercial Clarity | 60.5 | | Access Clarity | 60.5 | Regulatory layer — **Education & Research**: 66.7 (matched via tags). ## Agent readiness — 52.6 (agent-ready) | Dimension | Value | |---|---| | Spec Presence | yes | | Agentic Access | no | | Reversibility Documented | no | | MCP Server | documented | | Auth Clarity | yes | | Idempotency | no | | Error Semantics | verified | | OpenAPI Examples | verified | | Rate Limit Signal | documented | | Event Surface Described | yes | | Agent Skills | derived | | Well Known Catalog | no | | Consent Identity | yes | | Agent Card | no | | Dry Run Mode | no | ## APIs (30) - **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. ## MCP servers (1) - **Cisco Catalyst Center MCP Server** ## Security (4) - **Cisco Catalyst Center Authentication** — http/apiKey · 2 schemes - **Cisco Catalyst Center Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC - **Cisco Catalyst Center Vulnerability Disclosure** — security.txt · contact published - **Cisco Catalyst Center Trust Center** — FIPS 140-2 ## Plans (1) - **Cisco Catalyst Center Plans Pricing** ## Tags Network Automation, Intent-Based Networking, Networking, Assurance, Enterprise, Campus, Wireless, SD-Access, Network Management, Observability, Telemetry, MCP, agent-native, Cisco --- Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/cisco-catalyst-center/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.