Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF, formerly "Desktop Management Task Force") is an industry consortium that develops, supports, and maintains standards for systems management of PC systems / products and promotes interoperability for enterprise & Internet environments, to reduce total cost of ownership. These include the Desktop Management Interface (DMI), the most-widely used management standard today.
The DMTF is participating in an industry effort to create a standard for management over the Internet called WBEM - for Web Based Enterprise Management. They are defining an object-oriented Common Information Model (CIM).
The Systems Management Working Group (SMWG) of DMTF is developing the Systems Management Architecture for Server Hardware (SMASH). The purpose of SMASH is to standardize a way to manage servers from multiple vendors.
See also: Directory-Enabled Networking.
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This article is based on material taken from the Free On-line Dictionary of Computing prior to 1 November 2008 and incorporated under the "relicensing" terms of the GFDL, version 1.3 or later.
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