200-901 Cisco Platforms and Development Practice Question
An engineer is using EEM on an IOS XE device. They want to trigger an applet when a specific syslog message appears. Which event trigger type should they use?
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event syslog pattern
EEM supports syslog pattern matching as an event trigger.
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event syslog pattern
Why this is correct
This matches a syslog message pattern.
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event interface
Why it's wrong here
This triggers on interface state changes.
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event cli match
Why it's wrong here
This matches CLI commands entered.
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event timer
Why it's wrong here
This triggers on a timer.
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