Patent ID: 11921610
Assignee: VMWARE LLC
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A method for reporting attributes of data flows associated with machines executing on a host computer, the method comprising:
at a set of one or more servers operating outside of the host computer:
receiving, through a first communication from the host computer, a set of contextual attributes associated with a set of one or more data message flows, wherein the set of contextual attributes comprises at least one of an identifier for a process requesting the set of data message flows, and a command line interface (CLI) parameter associated with the request, wherein the set of contextual attributes comprise a plurality of attributes collected from a guest introspection agent executing on a machine that executes on the host computer and that is associated with the set of data message flows;
receiving, through a separate, second communication from the host computer, a set of statistics collected at the host computer for the set of data message flows and a key to correlate the received set of statistics and the received set of contextual attributes, wherein a flow exporter that executes on the host computer collects the set of statistics relating to the set of data message flows, and iteratively performs a first aggregation operation to aggregate collected sets of statistics for the set of data message flows before iteratively sending aggregated set of statistics to the set of servers;
using the key to correlate the received set of statistics and the contextual attributes.