1. An article of manufacture for managing devices in a network, wherein the article of manufacture causes operations to be performed, the operations comprising: receiving a command of a first type to perform device management operations with respect to at least one device in the network, wherein the received command is capable of being directed to at least one of a plurality of devices in the network; determining from a first mapping a network address of the device to which the received command is directed; determining from a second mapping at least one command of a second type associated with the received command of the first type, wherein the mapping indicates a mapping of at least one parameter included in the received command of the first type to at least one parameter in the associated command of the second type; generating the determined command of the second type to include as parameters the at least one parameter from the command of the first type indicated in the second mapping; and transmitting the generated command of the second type to the determined network address.