What is an advantage of device-level management as compared to controller-level management to automate the configuration of network devices?

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• ADevice-level management has access to all devices from a single point on the network and
• BDevice-level management supports all subsets of the potential device settings and controller-level
• CDevice-level management supports REST API-enabled devices and controller-level management
• DDevice-level management requires one controller per vendor and controller-level management

• A
  2% (1)
• B
  89% (51)
• C
  5% (3)
• D
  4% (2)

Explanation

Device-level management (managing devices directly via CLI, NETCONF, or RESTCONF) supports all possible device settings because you are interfacing directly with the device's full feature set. Controller-level management (e.g., via Cisco DNA Center) exposes only a subset of device capabilities through its abstracted northbound API, as controllers are designed to simplify management and may not expose every vendor-specific or advanced configuration option. This full feature access is the key advantage of device-level management, even though it requires more effort per device and lacks a single centralized management point.

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