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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 11, 2018
Filed:
May. 27, 2015
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Biju Mathews Mammen, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Samar Sharma, San Jose, CA (US);
Nikhil Dhar, San Jose, CA (US);
Avni Baveja, San Jose, CA (US);
Mitali Parthasarathy, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A method is provided in one example embodiment and includes transmitting from an appliance connected to a first virtual device context ('VDC') instantiated on a network device a request for statistics associated with selected ones of a plurality of VDCs implemented on the network device, wherein the plurality of VDCs includes the first VDC and wherein the appliance is connected to the first VDC via a management link; and receiving at the appliance the requested statistics associated with the plurality of VDCs. The method may further comprise receiving at the appliance a configuration message, wherein the configuration message identifies at least one of the selected ones of the plurality of VDCs for which statistics are to be provided, at least one type of statistic to be provided for the selected ones of the VDCs, and a polling interval at which statistics are to be collected from the selected VDCs.