Cisco APIC Getting Started Guide, Release 6.1(x)

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Finding Your Switch Inventory Using the REST API

Updated: November 28, 2025

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Overview

sd Finding Your Switch Inventory Using the REST API

This section explains how to find your switch model and serial numbers using the REST API

Procedure

Find your switch inventory as follows:

Example:

GET https://192.0.20.123/api/node/mo/topology/pod-1.json?query-target=children&target-subtree-class=fabricNode
The following response is returned: 
response: 
  {
     "totalCount":"8",
     "imdata":
     [{
         "fabricNode":{
           "attributes":{
              "adSt":"on",
              "childAction":"",
              "delayedHeartbeat":"no",
              "dn":"topology/pod-1/node-103",
              "fabricSt":"active",
              "id":"103",
              "lcOwn":"local",
              "modTs":"2016-10-08T14:49:35.665+00:00",
              "model":"N9K-C9396PX",
              "monPolDn":"uni/fabric/monfab-default",
              "name":"leaf3",
              "nameAlias":"",
              "role":"leaf",
              "serial":"TEP-1-103",
              "status":"","uid":"0",
              "vendor":"Cisco Systems, Inc",
              "version":""}
             }
     },{
         "fabricNode":{
           "attributes":{
             "adSt":"on",
             "childAction":"",
             "delayedHeartbeat":"no",
             "dn":"topology/pod-1/node-105",
             "fabricSt":"active",
             "id":"105",
             "lcOwn":"local",
             "modTs":"2016-10-08T14:47:52.011+00:00",
             "model":"N9K-C9508",
             "monPolDn":"uni/fabric/monfab-default",
             "name":"spine2",
             "nameAlias":"",
             "role":"spine",
             "serial":"TEP-1-105","status":"",
             "uid":"0",
             "vendor":"Cisco Systems, Inc",
             "version":""
          ...
       [TRUNCATED]
          ...
     }