ACME Corporation is deploying a new HR application that requires the network infrastructure to monitor and react to certain conditions in the network. Which feature should be used to meet this design

Cisco IOS Embedded Event Manager (EEM) is a network management technology built into Cisco IOS that allows the device to monitor specific events - such as interface state changes, CPU thresholds, syslog messages, or SNMP conditions - and automatically execute a configured response or script. EEM applets and policies provide the event-driven automation needed for an application infrastructure that must react to network conditions. This makes it the correct choice for a design requiring the network to monitor and respond dynamically.

IP SLA is used to measure network performance metrics like latency and jitter, not to trigger automated reactions to network events.

Reflexive ACLs are a stateful access control mechanism for permitting return traffic, not a tool for monitoring or reacting to network conditions.

Route maps are used for conditional policy-based routing or route redistribution, not for event monitoring and automated network reactions.

SOAP is a web services messaging protocol used for API communication, not a Cisco IOS feature for network event monitoring.

Exit status refers to process return codes in scripting contexts and is not a Cisco IOS network monitoring or reaction feature.