ISO/IEC 10040:1998

Information technology — Open Systems Interconnection — Systems management overview

This Recommendation | International Standard:

• provides an overview to the family of systems management standards;
• establishes the basis for partitioning the systems management standards into separate groups, specifying the scope of each group and identifying the principal components within each group;
• gives guidance on the development of systems management standards and identifies the way they relate to each other;
• defines terms for use by other systems management standards;
• is applicable to the definition of all systems management standards and to all aspects of systems management of whatever scale;
• is applicable to situations in which the responsibility for systems management is centralized and those where it is decentralized;
• establishes a model for systems management, identifies several aspects of systems management (i.e. information, functional, communications, and organizational), and further refines the model to clarify these aspects;
• identifies the principles governing conformance requirements and conformance claims to systems management standards.

There are no conformance requirements on the main body of this Recommendation | International Standard, however it does specify requirements on standards claiming compliance to systems management.

Annex A defines an application context for systems management and specifies the rules for negotiating systems management functional units. There are conformance requirements associated with these rules.

Edition	1998
Published Date	1998
Published By	International Standardization Organisation /International Electrotechnical Commission
Page Count	27