This chapter describes how a management application communicates with the DMI through the Management Interface (MI). A management application requests information about components in the system by issuing the DMI Get, Set, and List commands. However, before it can manage a component in the system, the application must register with the service layer for that particular system. Once registered, the application can issue commands, as well as receive notifications of indications. It is the responsibility of the management application to have program code in place to process the error codes returned by the service layer.

This chapter describes how a management application communicates with the MI, including the registration process that the application must use and the status codes that the service layer returns.