Question

A network operations team wants to standardize router and switch configurations across 200 devices. They require a tool that pushes configuration changes without installing any software agent on the managed network devices, and they want the desired configurations expressed in human-readable YAML files. Which configuration management characteristic best matches Ansible for this requirement?

Accepted Answer

It is agentless and uses SSH to push configurations defined in YAML playbooks

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It requires an agent installed on each device that pulls configuration from a master server

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It uses a compiled binary manifest that each device downloads over HTTPS every 30 minutes

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It relies on SNMP write operations to modify device configurations in real time