Cisco Nexus Dashboard · Authentication Profile

Cisco Nexus Authentication

Authentication

Cisco Nexus Dashboard secures its APIs with apiKey across 1 declared security scheme, as derived from its OpenAPI definitions.

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Methods: apiKey Schemes: 1 OAuth flows: API key in: cookie

Security Schemes

cookieAuth apiKey
· in: cookie (APIC-cookie)

Source

Authentication Profile

Raw ↑ 
generated: '2026-07-11'
method: derived
source: openapi/cisco-nexus-nxapi-rest.yml
summary:
  types:
  - apiKey
  api_key_in:
  - cookie
schemes:
- name: cookieAuth
  type: apiKey
  in: cookie
  parameter: APIC-cookie
  description: Session cookie obtained from the /api/aaaLogin endpoint. The cookie has a configurable
    idle timeout (default 600 seconds) and must be included in all subsequent requests.
  sources:
  - openapi/cisco-nexus-nxapi-rest.yml