https://blogs.cisco.com/networking/with-apis-cisco-dna-center-can-improve-your-competitive-advantage
Intent APIs enable developers to access Cisco DNA Center Automation and Assurance workflows. Through this access, you can simplify the process of creating workflows that consolidate multiple network actions.
Say, for instance, you’re configuring an SSID on a wireless network. Using Cisco DNA Center and the intent APIs, you can offload the process of setting WLAN and security settings. This saves time and provides greater consistency. You can do the same for QoS policies, software images running on the network devices, and application health.
- Southbound—Multivendor Support APIs/SDK
The Cisco DNA Center Multivendor SDK allows partners to add support for managing non-Cisco devices directly from Cisco DNA Center. This tool provides the ability to build “device packs” customized for the level of automation and reporting that each new device allows. Once built, this capability permits basic device visibility, monitoring and Command Runner compatibility, and enables a non-Cisco device to be identified properly in inventory.
- Eastbound—Events and Notifications APIs
Eastbound APIs publish event notifications that enable third party applications to act on system level, operational or Cisco DNA Assurance notifications. For instance, when some of the devices in the network are out of compliance, an eastbound API can enable an application to execute a software upgrade when it receives a notification. To configure events and notifications webhooks, Cisco DNA Center has to have a call back URL where it will send the notification out.
- Westbound—Integration APIs
Cisco DNA Center platform can power end-to-end IT processes across the value chain by integrating various domains such as ITSM, IPAM, and reporting. By leveraging the REST-based Integration Adapter APIs, bi-directional interfaces can be built to allow the exchange of contextual information between Cisco DNA Center and the external, third-party IT systems. The westbound APIs provide the capability to publish the network data, events and notifications to the external systems and consume information in Cisco DNA Center from the connected systems.