DNA-C API - Get all fabric-sites

[Chris Donkelaar]

I want to retrieve an overview of all fabric sites using DNA-C API. But where I can get an overview of all sites using a get request on https://{controller_ip}/dna/intent/api/v1/site, I can't get an overview of all fabrics using https://{controller_ip}/dna/intent/api/v1/business/sda/fabric. It looks like a siteNameHierarchy is required. But how do I retrieve that siteNameHierarchy if there is no top level request? Or am I totally searching into the wrong direction?

Best regards,

Chris Donkelaar

[Aninda Chatterjee · Accepted solution]

I don't see a direct API to get all fabric sites. So, what you can potentially do is find all sites using the 'https://<DNAC_IP_address>/dna/intent/api/v1/site' API, retrieve the relevant site hierarchies from here and then feed each site hierarchy combination into the fabric site API 'https://<DNAC_IP_address>/dna/intent/api/v1/business/sda/fabric' to determine if it is a fabric site or not.

[Chris Donkelaar]

Thank you @Aninda Chatterjee, this does indeed verify if sites are also fabric sites, and it does respond with a fabricName item. But when you still have empty fabrics, you're basically screwed? Do you know if any API call is in development to escape reverse engineering this way?

[Aninda Chatterjee]

I don't think there's an API in development specifically for this, but I can check. What is your end goal here? Is it just to determine which sites are fabric sites?

Cheers,

Aninda

[Chris Donkelaar]

Automated fabric creation, so build it all (fabric, site, VNs, devices, etc) from one or a couple of scripts with some input file. And also to get info from DNA-C, such as fabric, and then select the fabric as new input to get all the fabric-sites related, etc.