openapi: 3.2.0
info:
title: Cisco ISE API - Policy Device Administration - Authentication Rules API
version: 1.0.0
x-provenance:
method: harvested
authored_by: Cisco
harvested_by: API Evangelist
harvested_on: '2026-08-19'
first_party: true
provider_published: true
source_host: pubhub.devnetcloud.com
note: 103 ISE API descriptions (1,490 operations; 32 OpenAPI 3.0.x + 71 Swagger 2.0) enumerated from Cisco's own DevNet project manifest and fetched anonymously. Byte-identity reconfirmed 2026-08-19 by SHA-256 against the live source.
x-evidence:
- type: source
url: https://pubhub.devnetcloud.com/media/identity-services-engine-api-v1/docs/
- type: source
url: https://developer.cisco.com/docs/identity-services-engine/
servers:
- url: https://172.23.9.91:443
description: Inferred Url
tags:
- name: Device Administration - Authentication Rules
paths:
/api/v1/policy/device-admin/policy-set/{policyId}/authentication:
get:
tags:
- Device Administration - Authentication Rules
summary: Device Admin - Get authentication rules.
description: Device Admin - Get authentication rules.
operationId: getDeviceAdminPolicyByIdAuthenticationRuleList
parameters:
- name: policyId
in: path
description: Policy id
required: true
style: simple
schema:
type: string
format: uuid
exampleSetFlag: true
- name: X-Request-ID
in: header
description: request Id, will return in the response headers, and appear in logs
required: false
schema:
type: string
exampleSetFlag: true
responses:
'200':
description: Authentication Rule list response
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/AuthenticationRuleListResponseEntity'
exampleSetFlag: false
'400':
description: Bad request
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
exampleSetFlag: false
'401':
description: Unauthorized
'403':
description: Forbidden
'404':
description: The specified resource was not found
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
exampleSetFlag: false
security:
- BasicAuth: []
post:
tags:
- Device Administration - Authentication Rules
summary: Device Admin - Create authentication rule.
description: 'Device Admin - Create authentication rule:
- Rule must include name and condition.
- Condition has hierarchical structure which define a set of conditions for which authentication policy rule could be match.
- Condition can be either reference to a stored Library condition, using model ConditionReference
or dynamically built conditions which are not stored in the conditions Library, using models ConditionAttributes, ConditionAndBlock, ConditionOrBlock.
'
operationId: createDeviceAdminPolicyByIdAuthenticationRule
parameters:
- name: policyId
in: path
description: Policy id
required: true
style: simple
schema:
type: string
format: uuid
exampleSetFlag: true
- name: X-Request-ID
in: header
description: request Id, will return in the response headers, and appear in logs
required: false
schema:
type: string
exampleSetFlag: true
requestBody:
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/RuleAuthentication'
exampleSetFlag: false
responses:
'200':
description: OK
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/AuthenticationRuleResponseEntity'
exampleSetFlag: false
'201':
description: Authentication Rule response
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/AuthenticationRuleResponseEntity'
exampleSetFlag: false
'400':
description: Bad request
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
exampleSetFlag: false
'401':
description: Unauthorized
'403':
description: Forbidden
'404':
description: The specified resource was not found
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
exampleSetFlag: false
security:
- BasicAuth: []
/api/v1/policy/device-admin/policy-set/{policyId}/authentication/reset-hitcount:
post:
tags:
- Device Administration - Authentication Rules
summary: Device Admin - Reset HitCount for Authentication Rules
description: Device Admin - Reset HitCount for Authentication Rules
operationId: resetHitCountsDeviceAdminPolicyByIdAuthenticationRules
parameters:
- name: policyId
in: path
description: Policy id
required: true
style: simple
schema:
type: string
format: uuid
exampleSetFlag: true
- name: X-Request-ID
in: header
description: request Id, will return in the response headers, and appear in logs
required: false
schema:
type: string
exampleSetFlag: true
responses:
'200':
description: Response with success message
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/MessageResponseEntity'
exampleSetFlag: false
'201':
description: Created
'400':
description: Bad request
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
exampleSetFlag: false
'401':
description: Unauthorized
'403':
description: Forbidden
'404':
description: The specified resource was not found
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
exampleSetFlag: false
security:
- BasicAuth: []
/api/v1/policy/device-admin/policy-set/{policyId}/authentication/{ruleId}:
get:
tags:
- Device Administration - Authentication Rules
summary: Device Admin - Get rule attributes.
description: Device Admin - Get rule attributes.
operationId: getDeviceAdminPolicyByIdAuthenticationRuleById
parameters:
- name: policyId
in: path
description: Policy id
required: true
style: simple
schema:
type: string
format: uuid
exampleSetFlag: true
- name: ruleId
in: path
description: Rule id
required: true
style: simple
schema:
type: string
format: uuid
exampleSetFlag: true
- name: X-Request-ID
in: header
description: request Id, will return in the response headers, and appear in logs
required: false
schema:
type: string
exampleSetFlag: true
responses:
'200':
description: Authentication Rule response
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/AuthenticationRuleResponseEntity'
exampleSetFlag: false
'400':
description: Bad request
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
exampleSetFlag: false
'401':
description: Unauthorized
'403':
description: Forbidden
'404':
description: The specified resource was not found
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
exampleSetFlag: false
security:
- BasicAuth: []
put:
tags:
- Device Administration - Authentication Rules
summary: Device Admin - - Update rule.
description: Device Admin - - Update rule.
operationId: updateDeviceAdminPolicyByIdAuthenticationRuleById
parameters:
- name: policyId
in: path
description: Policy id
required: true
style: simple
schema:
type: string
format: uuid
exampleSetFlag: true
- name: ruleId
in: path
description: Rule id
required: true
style: simple
schema:
type: string
format: uuid
exampleSetFlag: true
- name: X-Request-ID
in: header
description: request Id, will return in the response headers, and appear in logs
required: false
schema:
type: string
exampleSetFlag: true
requestBody:
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/RuleAuthentication'
exampleSetFlag: false
responses:
'200':
description: Authentication Rule response
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/AuthenticationRuleResponseEntity'
exampleSetFlag: false
'201':
description: Created
'204':
description: No Content
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/AuthenticationRuleResponseEntity'
exampleSetFlag: false
'400':
description: Bad request
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
exampleSetFlag: false
'401':
description: Unauthorized
'403':
description: Forbidden
'404':
description: The specified resource was not found
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
exampleSetFlag: false
security:
- BasicAuth: []
delete:
tags:
- Device Administration - Authentication Rules
summary: Device Admin - Delete rule.
description: Device Admin - Delete rule.
operationId: deleteDeviceAdminPolicyByIdAuthenticationRuleById
parameters:
- name: policyId
in: path
description: Policy id
required: true
style: simple
schema:
type: string
format: uuid
exampleSetFlag: true
- name: ruleId
in: path
description: Rule id
required: true
style: simple
schema:
type: string
format: uuid
exampleSetFlag: true
- name: X-Request-ID
in: header
description: request Id, will return in the response headers, and appear in logs
required: false
schema:
type: string
exampleSetFlag: true
responses:
'200':
description: Response with object ID
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/IdResponseEntity'
exampleSetFlag: false
'202':
description: Accepted
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/IdResponseEntity'
exampleSetFlag: false
'204':
description: No Content
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/IdResponseEntity'
exampleSetFlag: false
'400':
description: Bad request
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
exampleSetFlag: false
'401':
description: Unauthorized
'403':
description: Forbidden
'404':
description: The specified resource was not found
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
exampleSetFlag: false
security:
- BasicAuth: []
components:
schemas:
RuleCommon:
title: RuleCommon
required:
- name
type: object
properties:
condition:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Condition'
exampleSetFlag: true
default:
type: boolean
description: Indicates if this rule is the default one
example: false
exampleSetFlag: true
hitCounts:
type: integer
description: The amount of times the rule was matched
format: int32
readOnly: true
example: 2
exampleSetFlag: true
id:
type: string
description: The identifier of the rule
format: uuid
readOnly: true
example: d82952cb-b901-4b09-b363-5ebf39bdbaf9
exampleSetFlag: true
name:
type: string
description: Rule name, [Valid characters are alphanumerics, underscore, hyphen, space, period, parentheses]
example: MyRuleName_1
exampleSetFlag: true
rank:
type: integer
description: The rank(priority) in relation to other rules. Lower rank is higher priority.
format: int32
example: 1
exampleSetFlag: true
state:
type: string
description: The state that the rule is in. A disabled rule cannot be matched.
example: enabled
exampleSetFlag: true
enum:
- disabled
- enabled
- monitor
description: Common attributes in rule authentication/authorization
exampleSetFlag: false
Link:
title: Link
required:
- href
type: object
properties:
href:
type: string
example: https://{{ISE_IP}}/api/v1/policy/{{protocol}}/policy-set/{{resource-id}}
exampleSetFlag: true
rel:
type: string
example: self
exampleSetFlag: true
enum:
- next
- previous
- self
- status
type:
type: string
example: application/json
exampleSetFlag: true
exampleSetFlag: false
AuthenticationRuleListResponseEntity:
title: AuthenticationRuleListResponseEntity
required:
- response
- version
type: object
properties:
response:
type: array
example: '[{"identitySourceName":"Internal Endpoints","ifAuthFail":"reject","ifProcessFail":"drop","ifUserNotFound":"reject","rule":{"condition":{"conditionType":"ConditionAttributes","isNegate":false,"dictionaryName":"Network Access","attributeName":"Device IP Address","operator":"ipEquals","attributeValue":"10.0.10.0"},"default":false,"hitCounts":2,"id":"d82952cb-b901-4b09-b363-5ebf39bdbaf9","name":"MyRuleName_1","rank":1,"state":"enabled"},"link":{"href":"https://{{ISE_IP}}/api/v1/policy/{{protocol}}/policy-set/{{policy-id}}/authentication/d82952cb-b901-4b09-b363-5ebf39bdbaaa","rel":"self","type":"application/json"}}]'
exampleSetFlag: true
items:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/RuleAuthentication'
exampleSetFlag: false
version:
type: string
example: 1.0.0
exampleSetFlag: true
exampleSetFlag: false
MessageResponseEntity:
title: MessageResponseEntity
required:
- message
type: object
properties:
message:
type: string
example: Success
exampleSetFlag: true
description: Response object containing success message
exampleSetFlag: false
IdResponseEntity:
title: IdResponseEntity
required:
- id
type: object
properties:
id:
type: string
format: uuid
example: 07da6fd8-5abc-4dc4-bcec-df309dbf4d17
exampleSetFlag: true
description: response object containing object ID
exampleSetFlag: false
AuthenticationRuleResponseEntity:
title: AuthenticationRuleResponseEntity
required:
- response
- version
type: object
properties:
response:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/RuleAuthentication'
exampleSetFlag: true
version:
type: string
example: 1.0.0
exampleSetFlag: true
exampleSetFlag: false
Error:
title: Error
type: object
properties:
code:
type: string
example: '400'
exampleSetFlag: true
message:
type: string
example: Bad Request
exampleSetFlag: true
exampleSetFlag: false
Condition:
title: Condition
required:
- conditionType
type: object
properties:
conditionType:
type: string
description: - Inidicates whether the record is the condition itself(data) or a logical(or,and) aggregation
- Data type enum(reference,single) indicates than "conditonId" OR "ConditionAttrs" fields should contain condition data but not both
- Logical aggreation(and,or) enum indicates that additional conditions are present under the children field
example: ConditionAttributes
exampleSetFlag: true
enum:
- ConditionAndBlock
- ConditionAttributes
- ConditionOrBlock
- ConditionReference
- LibraryConditionAndBlock
- LibraryConditionAttributes
- LibraryConditionOrBlock
- TimeAndDateCondition
isNegate:
type: boolean
description: Indicates whereas this condition is in negate mode
example: false
exampleSetFlag: true
link:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Link'
exampleSetFlag: true
description: - Hierarchical structure which defines a set of conditions for which authentication or authorization policy rules could be matched.
- Logical operations(AND, OR) relationship between conditions are supported
- Each condition can have subconditions with relation to logical operations
exampleSetFlag: false
RuleAuthentication:
title: RuleAuthentication
type: object
properties:
identitySourceName:
type: string
description: Identity source name from the identity stores
example: Internal Endpoints
exampleSetFlag: true
ifAuthFail:
type: string
description: Action to perform when authentication fails such as Bad credentials, disabled user and so on
example: reject
exampleSetFlag: true
ifProcessFail:
type: string
description: Action to perform when ISE is uanble to access the identity database
example: drop
exampleSetFlag: true
ifUserNotFound:
type: string
description: Action to perform when user is not found in any of identity stores
example: reject
exampleSetFlag: true
link:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Link'
exampleSetFlag: true
rule:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/RuleCommon'
exampleSetFlag: true
description: Rule for authentication in Network Access/Device Admin
exampleSetFlag: false
securitySchemes:
BasicAuth:
type: http
description: Basic authorization
scheme: basic