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350-401 Practice Question: An engineer configures gRPC dial-out telemetry on…
An engineer configures gRPC dial-out telemetry on a Cisco IOS-XE device:
``` telemetry ietf subscription 100 receiver ip address 10.1.1.100 port 50051 protocol grpc-tcp source-address 10.1.1.1 encoding encode-kvgpb filter xpath /interfaces/interface/state/counters update-policy periodic 10000 ```
What is the purpose of the 'source-address' command?
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It specifies the source IP address for the telemetry stream.
The 'source-address' command specifies the IP address that the device uses as the source IP when sending telemetry data to the receiver. This ensures that the receiver can identify the device and that the traffic is sourced from a specific interface.
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It specifies the IP address of the telemetry receiver.
Why it's wrong here
The receiver IP is specified in the 'receiver ip address' command.
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It specifies the source IP address for the telemetry stream.
Why this is correct
The source-address defines the IP address used as the source in the telemetry packets.
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It enables the device to receive telemetry data from the receiver.
Why it's wrong here
This is a dial-out configuration, so the device sends data, not receives.
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It specifies the IP address of the network management station.
Why it's wrong here
The receiver is the management station, but this command sets the source, not the destination.
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