About the Firepower Management Center REST API
With the release of Cisco’s Firepower Management Center REST API, you now have light-weight, easy-to-use option for managing Firepower Threat Defense and legacy Firepower devices through a Firepower Management Center.
The REST API is an application programming interface (API), based on “RESTful” principles, which you can quickly enable on any Firepower Management Center running version 6.1 or higher, and use with a REST client.
After installing a REST client, you can contact the specific Firepower Management Center's REST agent and use standard HTTP methods to access current configuration information, and issue additional configuration parameters.