Summary

Recommendation ITU-T F.746.8 describes requirements and functional architecture for a unified status monitoring (USM) system that allows network providers and application service providers (ASPs) to get the status information they need. The USM system, which consists of a USM server and a set of USM agents, collects both static and dynamic status information from network providers and ASPs. It can also parse the status requests from network providers and ASPs, generate the status reports and send the reports back to them.