3.1. Common Information Model (CIM)
The Common Information Model (CIM) is part of the industry-wide initiative called Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF), for providing a common model for management of environments across multiple vendor-specific products. The Web Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) is another initiative that includes the CIM standard. CIM is a conceptual model for describing implementation-independent management. The ultimate goal of CIM compliance is to build applications that can extract and use management data from products released by different vendors, be it hardware or software.
The definitive advantage of using CIM-based resource monitoring is that when newer versions of the product whose resource is already being ...
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