Cisco ACI can be managed through five different interfaces:

• GUI: The graphical user interface, typically used for the initial setup and, unfortunately, often still used for direct day-to-day operations on the fabric.
• CLI: Primarily used for the initial APIC configuration and, later, only in rare cases where special troubleshooting commands are required, either at the APIC level or on individual switches.
• Cobra SDK : A Python-based SDK that provides a programmatic interface to the fabric using Pythonic methods.
• Visore : A simple web interface for querying fabric objects.
• API: A complete set of REST APIs for full programmatic control of the fabric.

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