Working with Cisco Support APIs using Python (Part I)
Now a days the buzzword is consume everything using automation through programming. And one way of the consumption is achieved by using REST API and JSON. Let's talk about one such API provided by Cisco - Support APIs. What is Cisco Support APIs? Cisco's own definition is - Cisco Support APIs allows us to programmatically access and consume Cisco Support data in the cloud in a simple, secure, and scalable manner. Let's make our own easily explainable definition - We have a Cisco Catalyst Switch; we want to know detail information about our switch like - bug lists, end-of-life data, recommended software suggestions etc. The Cisco Support APIs allows us to manage all those above and much more by consuming their support api's from cloud. Before going further on I need to introduce two URLs which is required to follow through this blog post - https://apiconsole.cisco.com . This is the administrative portal where we configure our API access, tokens etc. https://developer.c