The Common Information Model ( CIM ) is an open standard that defines how managed elements in an IT environment are represented as a common set of objects and relationships between them.
6-452: Common Information Model may refer to: Common Information Model (computing) , a standard that defines how managed elements in an IT environment are represented as a common set of objects and relationships between them Common Information Model (electricity) , a standard used by electricity transmission network operators to communicate status information with other operators Topics referred to by
12-620: A particular implementation of CIM, including protocols for discovering and accessing such CIM implementations. The CIM standard includes the CIM Infrastructure Specification and the CIM Schema : CIM is the basis for most of the other DMTF standards (e.g. WBEM or SMASH ). It is also the basis for the SMI-S standard for storage management. Many vendors provide implementations of CIM in various forms: There
18-623: Is also a growing number of tools market around CIM. Standards organizations have defined management standards based on the CIM Schema: A number of protocols are defined for messages transmitted between clients and servers. The message protocols are transmitted on top of HTTP . There are two message types: CIM-XML forms part of the WBEM protocol family, and is standardised by the DMTF. CIM-XML comprises three specifications: WS-MAN forms part of
24-601: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Common Information Model (computing) The Distributed Management Task Force maintains the CIM to allow consistent management of these managed elements, independent of their manufacturer or provider. One way to describe CIM is to say that it allows multiple parties to exchange management information about these managed elements. However, this falls short of fully capturing CIM's ability not only to describe these managed elements and
30-564: The management information, but also to actively control and manage them. By using a common model of information, management software can be written once and work with many implementations of the common model without complex and costly conversion operations or loss of information. The CIM standard is defined and published by the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF). A related standard is Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM, also defined by DMTF) which defines
36-444: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Common Information Model . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Common_Information_Model&oldid=578319076 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
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