DMTF Standards and Initiatives
The DMTF Work Groups develop the various documents, guidelines and standards specifications for DMTF technologies. These pages contain links to specification documents, software development kit and tool downloads, and background documents. Please choose from the items listed below and to the left.
You can also view all DMTF Standard Publications (DSPs).
Standards Overview
For an overview and explanation of the DMTF's standards and how they relate, see the Technologies Diagram. See below for direct links to each of the DMTF's standards.
DMTF Feedback Policy
The DMTF welcomes feedback on our standards, but requires that individuals submitting comments first agree to our DMTF Feedback Policy. Note that current DMTF members should not use this feedback system - instead, submit feedback via email to the DMTF's Vice President of Technology.
Standards
Management Initiatives
Management initiatives are built upon DMTF technologies, and deliver
functionality to specific vertical applications and industries.
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.
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 x86 architecture systems.
Alert Standard Format (ASF)
This specification defines remote control and alerting interfaces that best
serve clients' OS-absent environments.
DMI generates a standard framework for managing and tracking components in a desktop pc, notebook or server. 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.