Generic management primitives Sample Clauses

Generic management primitives. The management information specific to the MAC sublayer is represented as a management information base (MIB). However, devices are not intended to be managed across a network but rather use the management information to ascertain the characteristics of the MAC sublayer. The MLME is viewed as “containing” the MIB for the MAC sublayer. The generic model of MIB- related management primitives exchanged across the management SAP is to allow the SAP user entity to either “GET” the value of a MIB attribute, or to “SET” the value of a MIB attribute. The invocation of a SET.request primitive may require the layer entity to perform certain defined actions. The GET and SET primitives are represented as requests with associated confirm primitives. These primitives are prefixed by MLME for the MAC sublayer management SAP. The DME uses the service provided by the MLME through the MLME SAP. The primitives are summarized in Table 1.