Question 590
At Ironwood Public Services, the city network service team is preparing a new municipal office activation. The operational constraint is an approved redundant path. The change ticket is marked completed for this reported failure: A nightly inventory job needs to read interface state but the script uses configuration-writing requests. Which result BEST demonstrates that this specific issue was resolved?
Explanation
Correct Answer
The inventory output matches device state and the script produces no configuration change. This is the relevant acceptance observation for the reported issue: A nightly inventory job needs to read interface state but the script uses configuration-writing requests. The intended corrective choice is: Use documented read-only REST GET endpoints and parse validated structured responses. At Ironwood Public Services, this outcome verifies actual operation under an approved redundant path, rather than only a ticket marked complete.
Incorrect Answers
A second run causes no unintended drift and failed operations are recorded and recovered safely. Such an observation would verify a separate issue: An orchestration script edits many switches with no idempotency or staged validation. It would follow the distinct action: Make intended configuration changes through supported API methods with preflight, guarded writes and postchange comparisons. Here the reported failure is A nightly inventory job needs to read interface state but the script uses configuration-writing requests. The decisive result for Ironwood Public Services must instead be: The inventory output matches device state and the script produces no configuration change.
The client stops safely on repeated errors and produces an actionable failure record without silent partial success. Such an observation would verify a separate issue: A REST client retries failed requests indefinitely and ignores rate-limit or schema errors. It would follow the distinct action: Validate response status and schema, implement bounded retries/backoff and treat failures as uncommitted changes. Here the reported failure is A nightly inventory job needs to read interface state but the script uses configuration-writing requests. The decisive result for Ironwood Public Services must instead be: The inventory output matches device state and the script produces no configuration change.
A credential scan finds no embedded secrets and unauthorized API calls are rejected. Such an observation would verify a separate issue: An automation service stores privileged passwords in a source-code repository for switch API calls. It would follow the distinct action: Use HTTPS-based authenticated AOS-CX REST access with protected credentials or tokens and least-privilege RBAC. Here the reported failure is A nightly inventory job needs to read interface state but the script uses configuration-writing requests. The decisive result for Ironwood Public Services must instead be: The inventory output matches device state and the script produces no configuration change.