can now be avoided entirely, and the custom application
receives the status of the event right when it gets
triggered.
Next, let’s focus on the Cisco DNA Center Platform
Intent API. As of this writing, the Intent API is organized
into several distinct categories:
Know Your Network category: This category contains API calls
pertaining to sites, networks, devices, and clients:
With the Site Hierarchy Intent API, you can get information about,
create, update, and delete sites as well as assign devices to a
specific site. (Sites within Cisco DNA Center are logical groupings
of network devices based on a geographic location or site.)
The Network Health Intent API retrieves data regarding network
devices, their health, and how they are connected.
The Network Device Detail Intent API retrieves detailed
information about devices. Different parameters can be passed to
limit the scope of the information returned by the API, such as
timestamp, MAC address, and UUID. Besides all the detailed
information you can retrieve for all the devices in the network, you
can also add, delete, update, or sync specified devices.
The Client Health Intent API returns overall client health
information for both wired and wireless clients.
The Client Detail Intent API returns detailed information about a
single client.
Site Management category: This category helps provision
enterprise networks with zero-touch deployments and manage the
activation and distribution of software images in the network:
The Site Profile Intent API gives you the option to provision NFV
and ENCS devices as well as retrieve the status of the provisioning
activities.
The Software Image Management (SWIM) API enables you to
completely manage the lifecycle of software images running within
a network in an automated fashion. With this API, you can retrieve
information about available software images, import images into
Cisco DNA Center, distribute images to devices, and activate
software images that have been deployed to devices.
The Plug and Play (PnP) API enables you to manage all PnP-
related workflows. With this API, you can create, update, and
delete PnP workflows and PnP server profiles, claim and unclaim
devices, add and remove virtual accounts, and retrieve information
about all PnP-related tasks.
Connectivity category: This category contains APIs that provide
mechanisms to configure and manage both non-fabric wireless and
Cisco SDA wired fabric devices. For fabric devices, you can add and