Patent ID: 9519563
Filing Date: 2016-12-13
CPC Classification: G06F,H04L

Claim Text:
1. A method for providing network performance monitoring using a performance database manager (PDM), the method comprises: determining, by the PDM, a list of one or more switches, one or more hosted services of each switch, and one or more applications of each switch; receiving, by the PDM, a request for service monitoring (SERMON) data from an application running on a network controller, wherein the request comprises an application identifier, a datapath identifier (DPID), a host identifier (HostID), and actual data items; sending, by the PDM, the request to a SERMON client running on one of the one or more switches; receiving, by the PDM, a response from the SERMON client; and, sending, by the PDM, the response to the application running on the network controller upon receipt of the response from the SERMON client.