A table which is used to control the loading of new software images to the devices controlled by the management agent. By convention the first entry in the table (device type = system(1), instance = 1) controls the loading of the device containing the management agent itself and agents in systems which have no subsidiary devices will have only this one entry in the table. If the system does have subsidiary devices, the other entries have device type = component(2), and control the loading of software into subsidiary devices.