| CPC G06F 9/5072 (2013.01) [H04L 41/14 (2013.01); H04L 41/22 (2013.01); G06F 3/0481 (2013.01)] | 15 Claims |

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1. A computing system comprising:
a computing device configured to execute a virtualized instance configured to provide control plane functionality for one or more physical forwarding units of a network device, the computing device distinct from the network device; and
a policy agent configured to execute on the computing device, the policy agent configured to:
determine that the virtualized instance provides the control plane functionality for the one or more physical forwarding units of the network device;
determine control plane usage metrics for resources of the virtualized instance; and
output, to a policy controller, (i) data associated with the control plane usage metrics for resources of the virtualized instance and (ii) data associating the virtualized instance with a unique identifier of the one or more physical forwarding units for which the virtualized instance provides control plane functionality, wherein the data associating the virtualized instance with the unique identifier enables the policy controller to correlate the control plane usage metrics for resources of the virtualized instance with data plane usage metrics for resources of the one or more physical forwarding units of the network device.
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