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INCITS 388.1-2011
Information Technology - Storage Management Technical specification - Part 1: Common Architecture
Defines the core architecture and protocols in SMI-S. The components of SMI-S architecture include: Transport - communicating management information between constituents of the management system: Health and fault management - detecting failures through monitoring the state of storage components; General information about the object model: Names - how SMI-S uses names to allow applications to correlate across SMI-S and to other standards: Policy - the expression of management behavior such that administrators and other management software can control that behavior, tailoring it to accomplish specific goals: Standard messages - how exceptions are presented to client applications: Service discovery - techniques clients use to discover SMI-S services: Installation and upgrade - recommendations for implementations: Compliance - requirement for compliance to the standard
InterNational Committee for Information Technology Standards [incits]