Patent ID: 8285828

Claim:
A method comprising performing, via a management controller in a device, an indication-based management service in said device, wherein said performing comprises: receiving by said management controller, event data from one or more managed entities within said device, wherein said one or more managed entities are communicatively coupled to said management controller; generating by said management controller based on said received event data, one or more Indication messages that are formatted based on Common Information Model (CIM) data models, wherein said generation comprises mapping at least a portion of said received event data to one or more fields in at least one of said one or more CIM based Indication messages; receiving by said management controller, partially generated Indication messages transmitted by one or more of said managed entities; completing by said management controller, the partially generated indication messages; and communicating via a network controller communicatively coupled to said management controller, said one or more generated Indication messages and said completed partially generated indication external to said device, wherein said received partially generated Indication messages are formatted in accordance with a particular management protocol and said completed Indication messages are also formatted in accordance with the particular management protocol.