aid: cisco-aci
name: Cisco ACI
description: 'Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) is Cisco''s data-center SDN fabric, programmed through
  the Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC) and its object model, the Management Information Tree
  (MIT). Every APIC GUI, CLI and SDK action is executed through one REST interface: HTTPS requests to /api/mo/<dn>.json
  and /api/class/<class>.json on the customer-operated controller, authenticated with a cookie-based aaaLogin session
  token and refreshed with aaaRefresh. The API is model-driven rather than OpenAPI-described — Cisco publishes an
  exhaustive object-model reference (the APIC Management Information Model Reference) plus a REST API configuration
  guide, a WebSocket (RFC 6455) event-subscription surface, an Ansible collection, a Terraform provider, a Python
  SDK (Cobra) and a public Postman workspace, but no anonymously fetchable OpenAPI, AsyncAPI or GraphQL contract.'
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url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/cisco-aci/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
type: Index
access: 3rd-Party
position: Consumer
x-type: company
x-source: cisco-family-buildout:2026-08-19
x-parent: cisco
x-relationship: product
x-contract-status: none
x-contract-note: No anonymously fetchable machine-readable contract found (probed 2026-08-19, real 404s). ACI is
  model-driven through the APIC object model rather than OpenAPI-described. API Evangelist has not authored a substitute.
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-08-19'
modified: '2026-08-19'
tags:
- SDN
- Data-Center
- Networking
- Fabric
- Automation
- Enterprise
- Network Automation
- Infrastructure
- Controller
- REST API
tags_raw:
- SDN
- Data Center
- Networking
- Fabric
- Automation
- Enterprise
- Network Automation
- Infrastructure
- Controller
- REST API
apis:
- aid: cisco-aci:cisco-apic-rest-api
  name: Cisco APIC REST API
  description: The Application Policy Infrastructure Controller REST API is the single programmatic interface into
    the ACI Management Information Tree. GET, POST and DELETE against /api/mo/<distinguished-name>.json (managed-object
    addressing) or /api/class/<class-name>.json (class queries) read and write policy — tenants, application profiles,
    EPGs, bridge domains, VRFs, contracts, filters, L3Outs — plus statistics, faults and audit records. Query scoping,
    filtering, ordering and pagination are expressed as URI parameters (query-target, target-subtree-class, rsp-subtree,
    order-by, page, page-size). The same endpoints support ?subscription=yes to open a WebSocket push-notification
    channel.
  humanURL: https://developer.cisco.com/docs/aci/
  baseURL: https://{apic-hostname}/api
  tags:
  - SDN
  - Data-Center
  - Networking
  - Fabric
  - Automation
  tags_raw:
  - SDN
  - Data Center
  - Networking
  - Fabric
  - Automation
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/dcn/aci/apic/all/apic-rest-api-configuration-guide/cisco-apic-rest-api-configuration-guide-42x-and-later.html
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developer.cisco.com/site/apic-mim-ref-api/
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://developer.cisco.com/docs/aci/getting-started/
common:
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/cisco-aci-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/cisco-aci-domain-security.yml
- type: ParentCompany
  url: https://apis.io/providers/cisco/
  name: Cisco
  x-relationship: product
  x-generated-by: cisco-family:2026-08-19
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://developer.cisco.com/site/aci/
- type: Portal
  url: https://developer.cisco.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/dcn/aci/apic/all/apic-rest-api-configuration-guide/cisco-apic-rest-api-configuration-guide-42x-and-later.html
- type: APIReference
  url: https://developer.cisco.com/site/apic-mim-ref-api/
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://developer.cisco.com/docs/aci/getting-started/
- type: Support
  url: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/index.html
- type: Blog
  url: https://blogs.cisco.com/tag/aci
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/CiscoDevNet
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/about/legal/terms-conditions.html
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/about/legal/privacy-full.html
- type: Postman
  url: https://www.postman.com/cisco-dcn-marketing-enablement/cisco-aci-public/overview
- type: Ansible
  url: https://github.com/CiscoDevNet/ansible-aci
- type: Terraform
  url: https://registry.terraform.io/providers/CiscoDevNet/aci/latest
- type: SourceCode
  url: https://github.com/CiscoDevNet/mcp_server_cisco_aci_community
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/cisco-aci-mcp.yml
- type: ToolCrosswalk
  url: mcp/cisco-aci-tool-crosswalk.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/cisco-aci-packages.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/cisco-aci-packages.yml
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/cisco-aci-well-known.yml
- type: SecurityTxt
  url: well-known/cisco-aci-security.txt
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/cisco-aci-llms.txt
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/cisco-aci-authentication.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/cisco-aci-conventions.yml
- type: Idempotency
  url: conventions/cisco-aci-conventions.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/cisco-aci-problem-types.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/cisco-aci-rate-limits.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/cisco-aci-plans-pricing.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/cisco-aci-lifecycle.yml
- type: Deprecation
  url: lifecycle/cisco-aci-lifecycle.yml
- type: ChangeLog
  url: changelog/cisco-aci-changelog.yml
- type: CLI
  url: cli/cisco-aci-cli.yml
- type: Sandbox
  url: sandbox/cisco-aci-sandbox.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/cisco-aci-data-model.yml
- type: Webhooks
  url: asyncapi/cisco-aci-event-subscriptions.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/cisco-aci-conformance.yml
- type: Security
  url: security/cisco-aci-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: TrustCenter
  url: security/cisco-aci-trust-center.yml
- type: Compliance
  url: security/cisco-aci-trust-center.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-19'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 25
  pass: local-v1
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io