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'''Distributed Management Task Force''' ('''DMTF''', formerly "Desktop Management Task Force") is a [[standards organisation]] that develops and maintains standards for [[systems management]] of [[Information technology|IT]] environments in enterprises and the Internet. These standards allow building systems management infrastructure components in a [[Platform (computing)|platform]]-independent and technology-neutral way. They provide for systems management interoperability between IT products of different producers without costly transformations and adaptations.

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'''Distributed Management Task Force''' ('''DMTF''') is a 501(c)(6) nonprofit industry standards organization that creates open manageability standards spanning diverse emerging and traditional IT infrastructures including cloud, virtualization, network, servers and storage. Member companies and alliance partners collaborate on standards to improve interoperable management of information technologies.

The DMTF was founded in [[1992]]. It is an open organisation where companies, other organisations and single persons can become members. In [[2005]], the DMTF had more than 3500 participants out of more than 200 organisations and companies (such as [[Cisco Systems|Cisco]], [[Dell, Inc.|Dell]], [[EMC Corporation|EMC]], [[Fujitsu]], [[Hewlett-Packard]], [[Hitachi, Ltd.|Hitachi]], [[IBM]], [[Intel]], [[Microsoft]], [[Novell]], [[Oracle Corporation|Oracle]], [[Sun Microsystems]], [[Symantec]], [[WBEM Solutions]]). The DMTF is organized in [[working group]]s where the participants jointly develop and maintain the standards. The DMTF has alliances with a number of other organisations and with the [[academia]].

Based in Portland, Oregon, the DMTF is led by a board of directors representing technology companies including: Broadcom Inc., Cisco, Dell Technologies, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Intel Corporation, Lenovo, [[Positivo Tecnologia|Positivo Tecnologia S.A.]], and Verizon.

==History==

Founded in 1992 as the Desktop Management Task Force, the organization's first standard was the now-legacy Desktop Management Interface (DMI). As the organization evolved to address distributed management through additional standards, such as the Common Information Model (CIM), it changed its name to the Distributed Management Task Force in 1999, but is now known as, DMTF.

The DMTF continues to address converged, hybrid IT and the Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) with its latest specifications, such as the Redfish standard, SMBIOS, SPDM, and PMCI standards.

==Standards==

DMTF standards include:

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<li>'''[[Common Information Model (computing)|Common Information Model]]''' ('''CIM''') - The CIM [[Schema]] is a [[conceptual schema]] that defines how the managed elements in an IT environment (for instance [[Computer]]s or [[Storage area network|Storage Area Networks]]) are represented as a common set of [[Object (computer science)|objects]] and relationships between them. CIM is extensible in order to allow product specific extensions to the common definition of these managed elements. CIM uses a model based upon [[Unified Modeling Language|UML]] to define the CIM Schema. CIM is the basis for most of the other DMTF standards.

<li>'''[[Common Diagnostic Model]]''' ('''CDM''') - The CDM [[schema]] is a part of the CIM schema that defines how system diagnostics should be incorporated into the management infrastructure.

<li>'''[[WBEM|Web Based Enterprise Management]]''' ('''WBEM''') - Defines protocols for the interaction between systems management infrastructure components implementing CIM, a concept of DMTF management profiles that allows defining the behavior of the elements defined in the CIM Schema, the CIM Query Language (CQL) and other specifications needed for the interoperability of CIM infrastructure.

<li>'''[[Systems Management Architecture for Server Hardware]]''' ('''SMASH''') - Defines a [[Command line interface|command line]] protocol for interacting with CIM infrastructure, and DMTF management profiles for server hardware management.

<li>'''[[SMBIOS|System Management BIOS]]''' ('''SMBIOS''') - Defines how the [[BIOS]] interface of [[x86|x86 architecture]] systems is represented in CIM (and DMI).

<li>'''[[Alert Standard Format]]''' ('''ASF''') - Defines remote control and alerting interfaces for OS-absent environments (for instance a system board controller of a [[Personal computer|PC]]).

<li>'''[[Directory enabled networking|Directory Enabled Network]]''' ('''DEN''') - Defines how [[Lightweight Directory Access Protocol|LDAP]] directories can be used to provide access to CIM managed elements and defines CIM to LDAP mappings for a part of the CIM schema.

<li>'''[[Desktop Management Interface]]''' ('''DMI''') - DMI was the first desktop management standard. Due to the rapid advancement of DMTF technologies, such as CIM, the DMTF defined an "End of Life" process for DMI, which ended March 31, 2005.

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* CADF - Cloud Auditing Data Federation

CIM related standards are also developed outside of the DMTF. Some examples are:

* CIMI - [[Cloud Infrastructure Management Interface]]

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* CIM - [[Common Information Model (computing)|Common Information Model]]

<li>The '''[[Storage Networking Industry Association|SNIA]]''' develops and maintains the '''[[SMI-S]]''' standard that defines DMTF management profiles for [[Storage area network|Storage Area Networks]].

* CMDBf - [[Configuration Management Database]] Federation<ref>{{Cite web|title=CMDBf {{!}} DMTF|url=https://www.dmtf.org/standards/cmdbf|access-date=2021-04-21|website=www.dmtf.org}}</ref>

<li>'''[[The Open Group]]''' develops and maintains the '''[[CMPI]]''' standard that defines a [[C programming language|C]]/[[C++]] [[Application programming interface|API]] for CIM providers.

* DASH - [[Desktop and mobile Architecture for System Hardware]]

<li>The '''[[Java Community Process]]''' currently develops the '''[[JSR-48]]''' standard that defines a [[Java (programming language)|Java]] API for CIM client applications.

* MCTP - [[Management Component Transport Protocol]] Including NVMe-MI, I2C/SMBus and PCIe Bindings

</ul>

* [[NC-SI]] - Network Controller Sideband Interface

* OVF - [[Open Virtualization Format]]

* PLDM - Platform Level Data Model Including Firmware Update, Redfish Device Enablement (RDE)

* [[Redfish (specification)|Redfish]] – Including Protocols, Schema, Host Interface, Profiles

* SMASH - [[Systems Management Architecture for Server Hardware]]

* [[System Management BIOS]] (SMBIOS) – Standardized Host Management Information

* SPDM - Security Protocol and Data Model

==References==

CIM and WBEM are supported by a large number of products and [[Open-source software|open source]] projects. A small list is provided here:

{{reflist}}

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<li>'''[[Windows Management Instrumentation]]''' ('''WMI''') - Implementation of CIM and WBEM in [[Microsoft Windows]]

<li>'''[http://sblim.sourceforge.net/ SBLIM]''' - Open source project providing an implementation of CIM and WBEM for [[Linux]] as well as other CIM and WBEM related components and tools

<li>'''[http://www.openpegasus.org/ OpenPegasus]''' - Open source project providing a CIM Object Manager written in C++ (the central infrastructure component for CIM and WBEM)

<li>'''[http://wbemservices.sourceforge.net/ WBEM Services]''' - Open source project providing a CIM Object Manager written in Java

<li>'''[http://openwbem.sourceforge.net/ OpenWBEM]''' - Open source project providing another CIM Object Manager written in C++

</ul>

===General===

== External links ==

*https://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/08/05/dmtf_signs_off_redfish_server_management_spec_v_10/

*https://digitalisationworld.com/news/49120/dmtf-announces-redfish-api-advancements

*https://searchstorage.techtarget.com/tip/Choose-the-right-storage-management-interface-for-you

==External links==

* [http://www.dmtf.org/ DMTF Homepage]

* {{Official website|http://www.dmtf.org/}}

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