This chapter describes how to enable a product to be managed as a component through the DMI.

The general tasks to enable a product include:

• Defining which aspects of the product are to be managed

• Writing a Management Information Format (MIF) file to describe the manageable features

• Writing instrumentation code to provide the service layer with information about the component

• Determining what errors, exceptions, or problems are to be forwarded to the service layer as indications

• Installing the MIF into the MIF database