Central Administration using programs

If you are using the program interface, you can split the tasks in one of two ways between the administration application and the applications to be administered:

• Decentralized administration programs:
  You can use the program interface in such a way that a complete administration program exists within the administered application which can autonomously determine the necessary parameters and evaluate the data returned to it.

• Central administration programs
  You can use the program interface in the administered application purely as a message interface, i.e. it receives all parameters from the administration application and returns the results of the call (return codes, data) without verification.