Procedure libraries

The client front end supports all the mandatory functionality of the DMI 2.0 including Management Interface APIs. However, it does not provide an optional interface defined in Section 9 of the DMI Specification. Instead, it provides an alternative API, which facilitates connection establishment/tear-down, indication server control and memory management. The following sections describe this API in detail. Refer to the DMI 2.0 Specification and errata documents for the DMI 2.0 core API definition. The procedural MI support provided by this DMI-SP implementation is wrapped in a client front-end abstraction. Part of the client front-end interface includes a layer of RPC support.

The DMI procedure libraries described in this documentation are provided in four libraries which are installed in /usr/lib:

libdmi2api.so

DMI 2.0 procedural interface

libdmiapi.so

historical interfaces that are now only used internally

libdmionc.so

remote client functions

libdmiutil.so

DMI utility functions for memory allocation, memory freeing and so on.