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CIM Overview
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Overview | CIM Specification | CIM Schema | Extension Schema
The CIM is a hierarchical, object-oriented management
information model that facilitates defining the various
interdependencies and relationships between different managed
objects. Such interdependencies may include those between logical
network connections and underlying physical devices, or those of
an e-commerce transaction and the web and database servers upon
which it depends.
The CIM is an information model, a conceptual view of the
managed environment, that unifies and extends existing
instrumentation and management standards (SNMP, DMI, CMIP, etc.)
using object-oriented constructs and design. The CIM does not
require any particular instrumentation or persistent information
repository format. It is only an information model defining the
management information in an object-oriented fashion.
The CIM is comprised of a specification and a schema. The CIM
Specification defines the details for integration with other
management models, while the CIM Schema provides the actual
model descriptions. The CIM Schema captures notions that
are applicable to common areas of management and is independent of
implementation.
This section will describe the CIM Specification,
including the meta schema and the meta schema elements, the
Managed Object Format (MOF) and how the Unified Modeling Language
(UML) is used to diagram CIM models.
The CIM Schema section describes the schema and includes
a description of the core and common models.
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