Cisco Systems, Inc.
Workload scheduling for data collection

Abstract:

This disclosure describes techniques for scheduling workloads relating to data collection from network devices. The techniques may include weighting attributes that impact the data collection workload on computational, storage, and/or other resources of a data collector. The scheduling process may also include consideration of current usage rates at a data collector, to avoid overloading a particular collector while potentially underutilizing others. The weighting of attributes and/or consideration of usage rates may improve the efficiency of workload scheduling among a set of collectors. The overall result may include better utilization of the collectors and/or other resources of the computing network.