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'''Distributed Management Task Force''' ('''DMTF''', formerly "Desktop Management Task Force") is an industry [[consortium]] of producers and consumers of [[Information technology|IT environments]] that develops and maintains [[standardization|standards]] for [[systems management]] of [[Information Technology|IT environments]]. These standards allow building systems management infrastructure components in a [[Platform (computing)|platform]]-independent and technology-neutral way. These standardsThey guarantee systems management interoperability between IT products of different suppliersproducers without costly transformations and adaptations.

The DMTF was founded in [[1992]]. It is an open consortium where companies, organisations and single persons can become members. In [[2005]], the DMTF had more than 3500 participants out of more than 200 companies or organisations. The DMTF is organized in working groups where the participants jointly develop and maintain the standards. The DMTF has alliances with a number of other consortiums and with the [[academia]].

DMTF standards include:

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<li>'''[[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>'''[[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, 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_networkingDirectory enabled networking|Directory Enabled Network]]''' ('''DEN''') - definesDefines 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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CIM isrelated standards are also developed outside of the DMTF. TwoSome examples are:

<ul>

<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]].

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

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

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

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

<li>'''[[SBLIM]]''' - Open source project providing an implementation of CIM and WBEM for [[Linux]]

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

<li>'''[[WBEMServices]]''' - Open source project providing a CIM Object Manager written in Java

<li>'''[[OpenWBEM]]''' - Open source project providing another CIM Object Manager written in C++

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== External Links ==

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

* [http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnwmi/html/mngwmi.asp WMI Homepage]

* [http://sblim.sourceforge.net/ SBLIM Homepage]

* [http://www.openpegasus.org/ OpenPegasus Homepage]

* [http://wbemservices.sourceforge.net/ WBEM Services Homepage]

* [http://openwbem.sourceforge.net/ OpenWBEM Homepage]

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