New Training: Deeper Automation with the vManage API

In this 7-video skill, CBT Nuggets trainer Knox Hutchinson covers the Viptela vManage API and teaches you how to automate key tasks in a Cisco SD-WAN environment. Learn how to send POST requests, DELETE requests, and more to the vManage API in order to make configuration changes to your SD-WAN environment. Watch this new Cisco training.

Watch the full course: Cisco CCNP Automating Cisco Enterprise Solutions

This training includes:

• 7 videos

• 24 minutes of training

You’ll learn these topics in this skill:

• vManage API – Beyond the Basics

• Reserving a CRUD Lab

• Perform User Administration

• Certificate Management API

• Deeper Template Automation

• Digging Into Fabric Data

• Summarizing Deeper SD-WAN Automation

What is CRUD?

CRUD (Create, Read, Update and Delete) is a common paradigm found in many applications, especially web applications. It includes the set of basic operations that applications allow.

Create adds an object to a datastore, which includes an ID that uniquely identifies it. Read allows you to access an existing object in a datastore through an ID that you specify. Update lets you make changes to an object existing in a datastore through an ID that you specify. Finally, Delete allows you to remove an object from a datastore through an ID that you specify.

It should be noted that not all applications provide all four CRUD operations. Many only provide a subset of them.

CRUD is often discussed within the context of RESTful APIs, as these APIs give web developers the ability to perform a defined set of CRUD operations on remote data stores through HTTP methods. These methods are POST, GET, PUT and DELETE.