This specification applies to a set of software interfaces between ANSI/EIA-709.1-B-2002 (EIA-709.1)
Network Management Tools and device type specific software for device installation, configuration and
commissioning, resulting in enhanced functionality of network management tools. This specification also
provides backward compatibility to ANSI/EIA-709.1-A-1999 tools. Supported devices include those that
meet the EIA-709.1 standard for nodes and the objects they contain which communicate on an EIA-709.1
standard network. Network tool software and device plug-in software properly implementing their
appropriate sides of the interfaces described in this specification interoperate on Microsoft® Windows®
and Windows NT® platforms using the Component Object Model (COM) technology for interoperability.