Patent ID: 11941426
Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 0:
1. A system, comprising:
at least one physical computer node further comprising a processor coupled to a memory, and operationally configured to provide a virtualization environment comprising:
a virtual network function component instance (VNFCI) comprising a plurality of independently manageable VNFC modules, wherein the VNFC modules map to both a virtual machine and an operating system container and wherein the VNFCI includes a custom life cycle management (LCM) script;
a management element in communication with the VNFCI; and
a Virtual Network Function Manager (VNFM) configured to receive, from the management element, a request to create a virtual network function component (VNFC} monitor, and in response to the request and the custom LCM script, to:
create a VNFC monitor, and
send one or more state change notifications of logical and physical elements associated with the VNFCI to the management element via a VNFM cache, the one or more state change notifications including a status of one or more of the plurality of independently manageable VNFC modules.