Patent ID: 11936544
Assignee: VMWARE LLC
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 14:
15. A non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising instructions, which, when executed, cause a computer system to carry out a method for capturing network usage for one or more namespaces accessible by entities operating in the one or more namespaces, the method comprising:
specifying, in one or more custom resource definitions, information to be captured for a network accessible by the one or more namespaces, wherein the network includes a gateway and a set of routing addresses for access to and from the network, and wherein the network usage specifies how many routing addresses in the set of routing addresses are used;
providing the one or more custom resource definitions to a management interface in a node that controls the one or more namespaces, wherein the management interface provides create, read, update, and delete operations for one or more of the entities operating in the one or more namespaces;
collecting, by one or more controllers in the node, network usage information according to the information specified in the one or more custom resource definitions, from notifications received from the management interface, wherein the management interface is configured to send notifications to the one or more controllers when changes are detected to the network; and
receiving a report of network usage from the node according to the information specified in the one or more custom resource definitions to be captured.