A method, system, and computer program product for initializing at least one data processing object associated with a communication protocol used to extract status information related to a monitored device communicatively coupled to a network, including accessing the monitored device to obtain vendor information related to the monitored device; obtaining, from a support memory, information related to an access function for extracting the status information using the communication protocol from an accessible data file on the monitored device, the accessible data file having a respective data file type; storing the vendor information and the access function information in a respective data processing object of the at least one data processing object; and repeating the preceding obtaining and storing steps for each of the at least one data processing object.