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Cisco DNA center and vManage APIs

Cisco DNA center and vManage APIs

- [Instructor] We now want to take a look at APIs in both Cisco DNA Center and vManage. An API, or an Application Programming Interface, is a building block that allows applications to communicate with one another. APIs in their most basic sense are simply building blocks of code or software that were created to save time for developers. Rather than starting from scratch trying to write code that will allow two applications to speak with one another, this allows developers to use pre-built APIs for this piece. This saves lots of development time and resources as opposed to having the need to specifically code for the communication between the applications. First let's take a look at Cisco DNA Center. As we've already determined, DNA Center is the central piece for Cisco's intent-based network automation architecture. Intent APIs are referred to as northbound interfaces. These are REST APIs, REST standing for Representational State Transfer. This is very common in web services, and it…

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