Abstract: A processing system may obtain a description of a first physical component of a logical composite device comprising at least two distributed physical components to perform a function in a communication network, where the at least two distributed physical components are dedicated to the logical composite device, and where the at least two distributed physical components include the first physical component. The processing system may next obtain a description of a second physical component of the at least two distributed physical components and add a set of one or more inventory objects representing the logical composite device to a communication network inventory database in accordance with the descriptions, where the communication network inventory database is in accordance with a class model having a plurality of classes, the plurality of classes including a logical composite class, the one or more inventory objects in accordance with the logical composite class.

Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a database being maintained that has information indicating states of network resources, which can be determined based on physical activities, logical activities and hybrid activities performed on or by the network resources; obtaining activity information for a particular network resource, where the activity information is a physical activity, a logical activity and/or a hybrid activity; and determining whether a state change for the particular network resource should be made such as to whether the activity information corresponds to and warrants change to at least one of an inventory state, an operational state, or a detailed state. Other embodiments are disclosed.