There are several checks which CMIP services makes to validate an object instance's response. The object instance supplies an invokeId, a destination (in the form of an association handle), and a response string. This error can indicate a number of different failures which all have in common that the response was invalid because that instance was not allowed to respond to the specified request at the current time. The possible failures are:

• The invoke identifier and association handle did not specify a valid indication (that is, no instance is allowed to respond to the "request", because it does not exist).
• The invoke identifier and association handle specify a valid indication, but the object instance responding is not allowed to respond to that indication because it was not a recipient of the indication.
• The invoke identifier and association handle specify a valid indication, but the object instance responding is not allowed to respond to that indication because it has already responded to that indication with a "final" response.
• The invoke identifier and associate handle specify a valid delete indication to which the object instance is allowed to respond, but the instance responded "out of phase", either sending a phase-1 response during phase 2 or vice versa.
• When CMIP services discovers that a manager application program has terminated, CMIP services removes all indications from that manager from its log. Otherwise valid agent responses to the indication are rejected with this return code. This is the only case where the client agent application program is not at fault. One possible cause for this error (in cases 2 and 3) is that the client agent application program specified the wrong local identifier on the response.