An engineer deployed a Cisco ThousandEyes Enterprise Agent on a Meraki MX to monitor a critical SaaS application. Which kind of monitoring has the engineer set up?

Question

Options

• Aactive monitoring
• Bpassive monitoring
• Cagentless monitoring
• Dserver monitoring

• A
  95% (19)
• B
  5% (1)

Explanation

Active monitoring (A) is correct because ThousandEyes Enterprise Agents actively generate synthetic test traffic - they send probes, HTTP requests, DNS queries, and similar transactions to measure performance of the SaaS application. The agent is doing the work, not just watching existing traffic flow by.

B (passive monitoring) is wrong because passive monitoring observes real user traffic without injecting any test traffic - think NetFlow or packet capture. ThousandEyes does the opposite.

C (agentless monitoring) is wrong because an Enterprise Agent is explicitly an installed software agent; agentless approaches collect data without deploying dedicated monitoring software on a device.

D (server monitoring) is wrong because server monitoring tracks host-level metrics (CPU, memory, disk) on a server - ThousandEyes is focused on network path and application reachability, not the health of the Meraki MX itself.

Memory tip: Think of "active" as the agent being proactive - it reaches out and tests the application on a schedule, like a mystery shopper. "Passive" just watches real customers go by.

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