1. A method comprising: a Common Information Model (CIM) agent notifying a CIM consumer that the CIM agent is able to receive notifications from the CIM consumer relating to errors within data sent by the CIM agent to the CIM consumer, the data relating to a CIM managed component; the CIM consumer receiving the data relating to the CIM managed component, from the CIM agent, the CIM managed component being one of a hardware component and a component; in response to the CIM consumer detecting that the data relating to the CIM managed component and received from the CIM agent contains errors, the CIM consumer notifying the CIM agent that the data relating to the CIM managed component and received from the CIM agent contains errors; in response, the CIM agent initiating an automated recovery process in relation to the CIM managed component, without manual user interaction.