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Network Controller Northbound Interface provides the Northbound API (NBI) definition of the Network Controller Protocol. The NBI is a Representational State Transfer (REST) (RESTful) web services API that uses JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) as the message format, as specified in [ECMA-404] and [JSON-Schema]. The first sections of this document provide an overview of the API and common usage of it. The bulk of this document is the design of the resources that make up the NBI.
The Network Controller Protocol is used by tenants and network administrators to control data center networking. Common tasks that would use these APIs include tenants designing and monitoring a virtual network in a data center and data center network admins monitoring the overall data center.