The programs managing the objects are often called object managers , and the programs accessing these object managers are the management applications. The framework provides for the common understanding of how to deal with objects and the protocols needed to access them. If you know the place and name of a person or company, you can look up the phone number to contact that person. Neither the name nor the phone number tells you where the person is really located. The same holds true in distributed computing in general and in distributed management.
Objects have names, which can be used to obtain their object IDs.
These object IDs are used by the underlying management framework and communications infrastructure to contact the object server. In addition, the framework provides services to handle the notifications being generated by the objects. Mechanisms exist to filter and correlate notifications based on certain criteria, such as severity, and to forward them to other objects or applications. The notification may then be displayed on the screen, change the color of an icon, trigger some automated operation or just be logged in some file for later inspection. This consistency greatly reduces the effort required to learn about management and to implement management applications.