Patent ID: 11956126
Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC G  H

Claim 18:
19. An apparatus, comprising:
one or more network interfaces to communicate with a network;
a processor coupled to the one or more network interfaces and configured to execute one or more processes; and
a memory configured to store a network controller process that is executable by the processor, the network controller process, when executed, configured to:
determine physical network topology of a data center network;
onboard a virtual machine manager for the data center network and a container orchestrator for the data center network onto the network controller process with read-only privileges;
collect virtual machine related network topology of the data center network from the virtual machine manager for the data center network;
collect virtual ethernet flow mapping information of the data center network from a blade system management software for the data center network;
collect container workload information of the data center network from the container orchestrator for the data center network; and
generate an integrated correlated visualization mapping of containers and associated network attachment points in the data center network based on the physical network topology, the virtual machine related network topology, the virtual ethernet flow mapping information, and the container workload information.