similar reporting solutions. IT administrators have the
option to build dashboards and extract business-relevant
insights.
The Integration API is also used for cross-domain
integrations with other Cisco products, such as Cisco
Meraki, Cisco Stealthwatch, and Cisco ACI. The idea is to
deliver a consistent intent-based infrastructure across
the data center, WAN, and security solutions.
Cisco DNA Center allows customers to have their non-
Cisco devices managed by DNA Center through a
multivendor SDK. Cisco DNA Center communicates with
third-party devices through device packages. The device
packages are developed using the multivendor SDK and
implement southbound interfaces based on CLI, SNMP,
or NETCONF.
Cisco DNA Center also provides webhooks for events and
notifications that are generated in the network or on the
Cisco DNA Center appliance itself. You have the option
of configuring a receiving URL to which the Cisco DNA
Center platform can publish events. Based on these
events, the listening application can take business
actions. For instance, if some of the devices in a network
are out of compliance, the events that the platform
generates can be interpreted by a custom application,
which might trigger a software upgrade action in Cisco
DNA Center. This completes the feedback loop in the
sense that a notification generated by Cisco DNA Center
is interpreted by a third-party custom application and
acted upon by sending either an Intent API or
Integration API call back to Cisco DNA Center to either
remedy or modify the network, based on the desired
business outcome. This mechanism of publishing events
and notifications also saves on processing time and
resources; before this capability existed, the custom
application had to poll continuously to get the status of
an event. By subscribing through the webhook, polling