What Does Apic Em Do

APIC-EM is an SDN controller for policy based automation of the network infrastructure, simplifying deployment and network operations. The built in applications IWAN, Path Trace and Plug and Play support enterprise routers, switches and Access Points. All capabilities are exposed via a REST API.

What is the APIC-em using to communicate with the devices in the network topology?

APIC-EM is an SDN controller that was created for Enterprise hardware. It uses a REST API for the northbound API with a decent GUI. For the southbound interface, it uses common protocols like Telnet, SSH and SNMP to communicate with your hardware.

What is REST API Cisco?

REST Requests REST is based on the HTTP request-response model. … The Cisco APIC-EM REST Application Programming Interface (API) uses the GET, POST, PUT and DELETE HTTP actions only: GET: Retrieve data from the path that the URL specifies. POST: Write new data at the path that the URL specifies.