1.3 Management Services Application Programming Interface

The SNAP-IX MS API comprises the following elements:

MS verbs

Verbs are issued by an MS application to do the following:

• Inform SNAP-IX when it needs SNAP-IX resources to support receiving MS data and status indications.

• Send MS data (in either NMVT format or MDS_MU format) to an MS application elsewhere in the network.

• Register the application with SNAP-IX to receive incoming MS data from focal points (in either NMVT format or MDS_MU format).

• Register the application with SNAP-IX to receive information about which focal point is responsible for a particular MS category, so that SNAP-IX can route MDS_MU data to the appropriate application.

For more information about MS verbs, see Management Services Verbs.

MS indications

Indications are either generated locally by SNAP-IX or used to forward data received from the network. For more information about MS indications, see Management Services Indications.