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DMTF Standards and Initiatives

The DMTF is leading the development, adoption, and unification of management standards and initiatives for desktop, enterprise and Internet environments. This page lists some of the approved specifications that the DMTF has made public.

Common Information Model (CIM)

CIM is a common data model of an implementation-neutral schema for describing overall management information in a network/enterprise environment.

Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM)

WBEM is a set of management and Internet standard technologies developed to unify the management of enterprise computing environments.

Systems Management Architecture for Server Hardware (SMASH) Initiative

The DMTF SMASH Initiative is a suite of specifications that deliver architectural semantics, industry standard protocols and profiles to unify the systems management of the data center.

Alert Standard Format (ASF)

Tha ASF specification defines remote control and alerting interfaces that best serve clients' OS-absent environments.

System Management BIOS (SMBIOS)

The SMBIOS specification addresses how motherboard and system vendors present management information about their products in a standard format by extending the BIOS interface on Intel architecture systems.