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Cisco Nexus Dashboard System API

Top-level system information and feature management via topSystem and fmEntity managed objects

Cisco Nexus Dashboard System API is one of 16 APIs that Cisco Nexus Dashboard publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.

Tagged areas include System. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, authentication docs, a getting-started guide, and an API reference.

This API exposes 3 operations across 2 paths, and defines 6 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.2.0, at version 10.5.0.

Requests are made against a single base URL, https://{switchIp}/api.

3 operations 2 paths 6 schemas 1 GET2 POST

Metadata

The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.

Specification
OpenAPI 3.2.0
API Version
10.5.0
Base URL
https://{switch-ip}/api
Authentication
API Key
Resource Areas
1

Authentication & Security 1

Cisco Nexus Dashboard System API declares 1 security scheme for authenticating requests. An API key is passed in the cookie as APIC-cookie (cookieAuth). By default, every request must be authenticated.

  • cookieAuth — Session cookie obtained from the /api/aaaLogin endpoint. The cookie has a configurable idle timeout (default 600 seconds) and must be included in all subsequen…

Paths & Operations 3

Across 2 paths, the API surfaces 3 operations — 1 GET, 2 POST. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.

System 3

Top-level system information and feature management via topSystem and fmEntity managed objects

GET
/mo/sys.json
Retrieve Top-level System Information
getSystemInfo 1 param → 200
POST
/mo/sys.json
Apply System-level Configuration
configureSystem body → 200400
POST
/mo/sys/fm.json
Enable or Disable Nx-os Features
configureFeatures body → 200

Schemas 6

The contract defines 6 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are TopSystemResponse (2 properties), ImDataResponse (2 properties), TopSystemPayload (1 property), FmEntityPayload (1 property). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.

TopSystem
object
Top-level system managed object. DN is sys.
1 property
ImDataResponse
object
Standard NX-API REST response wrapper
2 properties
TopSystemResponse
object
2 properties
ErrorResponse
object
Error response from NX-API REST
1 property
FmEntityPayload
object
1 property
TopSystemPayload
object
1 property

Specification

The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

cisco-nexus-system-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑

Other APIs Cisco Nexus Dashboard publishes across the network.

Cisco NX-API CLI
Cisco Nexus Dashboard REST API
Cisco Nexus Dashboard Fabric Controller API
Cisco Nexus Dashboard Orchestrator API
Cisco Nexus Dashboard Insights API
Cisco DCNM REST API
Cisco NETCONF/YANG API
Cisco NX-OS RESTCONF API
Cisco NX-OS gNMI/gRPC API
Cisco NX-OS Model-Driven Telemetry API
Cisco NX-OS Python SDK API
Cisco Nexus Dashboard Authentication API
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