Overview

The Cisco Observability Platform provides a command line interface (CLI), fsoc (pronounced "EFF-sock"), for interacting with platform services and managing solution lifecycles.

Platform Services

fsoc enables you to interact with platform services such as the knowledge store and the unified query engine, as well as with solutions available on the platform.

Solution Lifecycle

fsoc enables you to execute the basic solution lifecycle commands to build, deploy, subscribe, and test your solution.

Flexible Use Cases

You can use fsoc in multiple ways:

• Interactively - you can execute ad hoc commands interactively.
• In scripts - you can create building blocks for more complex tasks (interactive or automated).
• In automation - you can use in automated testing, continuous integration, and other automated tasks.

To better support these use cases, fsoc provides uniform output formatting capabilities and multiple authentication methods.

The next section describes how you can download and configure fsoc for use.