Cisco Technology, Inc.

Rakesh B Goudar

Samar Sharma

Deven Walia

John Andrew Fingerhut

Chandrashekarappa Surekha Puttasubbappa

A method including: in a network element that includes one or more hardware memory resources of fixed storage capacity for storing data used to configure a plurality of networking features of the network element and a utilization management process running on the network element, the utilization management process performing operations including: obtaining a plurality of entries of the one or more hardware memory resources representing utilization of the one or more hardware memory resources by network traffic passing through the network element; sorting the plurality of entries of the one or more hardware memory resources by statistics associated with the network traffic passing through the network element to produce sorted entries; and sending the extracted to a network management application for display is disclosed. An apparatus and one or more non-transitory computer readable storage media to execute the method are also provided.

Sorting and displaying network traffic analytics

A network element includes one or more hardware memory resources of fixed storage capacity for storing data used to configure a plurality of networking features of the network element. A utilization management process runs on the network element to perform operations including obtaining utilization data representing utilization of the one or more hardware memory resources, and analyzing the utilization data of the one or more hardware memory resources to produce summarized utilization data.

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Cupertino, CA, United States of America

Rakesh B Goudar