Cisco Cisco ASA 5580 Adaptive Security Appliance
About the ASA REST API
Overview
Overview
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Overview
The ASA REST API provides a programmatic model-based interface to configure classic ASAs starting from the 9.3.2
release. The term ‘classic ASA’ refers to the ASA which doesn’t include CX or SourceFire Sensor, or integrated
release. The term ‘classic ASA’ refers to the ASA which doesn’t include CX or SourceFire Sensor, or integrated
functionality of NGFW. Also when other modules are present with classic ASA, there are no APIs for those other
modules.
The following are highlights of support for 1.0.1 release:
• Provide critical use cases of firewall feature support such as access control, NAT etc.
• Support for OOB by co-exisitng CLI and API, and providing CLI pass-through API for features not supported in
API
• Provide critical Monitoring API
Supported platforms
For Phase1, the REST API is supported only on the 5500-X series (including the 5585-X) and ASAv platforms; it is not