Question 890
A team wants to push declarative interface changes from a central automation server over SSH to many switches without installing software agents on every switch. The incident evidence is: An engineer insists every switch must run a locally installed Ansible daemon to receive playbooks. Which targeted configuration or design change best addresses the failure?
Explanation
Correct Answer
The required correction is: Use an agentless orchestration approach such as Ansible playbooks with appropriate network connection plugins. The underlying failure mechanism is: Ansible uses controller-driven agentless connections in the common network-device workflow. Verify success by carrying out this direct test: check inventory-selected targets receive idempotent configuration while devices require no extra persistent agent.
Incorrect Answers
Choosing the supported event detector for the desired one-shot startup or cron schedule would not meet the need for an agentless orchestration approach such as Ansible playbooks with appropriate network connection plugins.
The needed correction is to use an agentless orchestration approach such as Ansible playbooks with appropriate network connection plugins.
Using an agent-based desired-state management pattern appropriate to supported server endpoints would not meet the need for an agentless orchestration approach such as Ansible playbooks with appropriate network connection plugins.






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