Editing Common Management Information Service

{{no footnotes|date=January 2013}}

The '''Common Management Information Service''' ('''CMIS''') is the service interface specified in [http://www.itu.int/rec/T-REC-X.710 ITU-T Recommendation X.710, ISO/IEC International Standard 9595] that is employed by OSI network elements for network management. It defines the service interface that is implemented by the [[Common Management Information Protocol]] (CMIP) as specified in [http://www.itu.int/rec/T-REC-X.711 ITU-T Recommendation X.711, ISO/IEC International Standard 9596-1]. CMIS is part of the [[Open Systems Interconnection]] (OSI) body of international network standards.

Note the term CMIP is sometimes used erroneously when CMIS is intended.{{cn|date=February 2023}} CMIS/CMIP is most often used in [[telecommunications]] applications, in other areas [[Simple Network Management Protocol|SNMP]] has become more popular.

==Services==
The following services are made available by the Common Management Information Service Element (CMISE) to allow management of network elements:

===Management operation services===
* M-CREATE – Create an instance of a managed object
* M-DELETE – Delete an instance of a managed object
* M-GET – Request managed object attributes (for one object or a set of objects)
* M-CANCEL-GET – Cancel an outstanding GET request
* M-SET – Set managed object attributes
* M-ACTION – Request an action to be performed on a managed object

===Management notification services===
* M-EVENT-REPORT – Send events occurring on managed objects

===Management association services===
To [[transfer (computing)|transfer]] management [[information]] between open systems using CMIS/CMIP, peer connections, ''i.e.,'' associations, must be established. This requires the establishment of an [[Application layer]] association, a [[Session layer]] [[telecommunication connection|connection]], a [[Transport layer]] connection, and, depending on supporting communications technology, [[Network layer]] and [[Link layer]] connections.

CMIS initially defined management association services but it was later decided these services could be provided by [[Association Control Service Element|ACSE]] and these services were removed. Below is a list of these services which were subsequently removed from ISO 9595:

* M-INITIALIZE – Creates an association with (i.e. connects to) another CMISE
* M-TERMINATE – Terminates an established connection
* M-ABORT – Terminates the association in the case of an abnormal connection termination

==See also==
*[[Common Management Information Protocol]] (CMIP)

==References==
*{{FS1037C MS188}}
*{{cite book | first=Uyless | last=Black | editor=Aaron Bittner | year=1995 | title=Network Management Standards: SNMP, CMIP, TMN, MIBs, and Object Libraries | publisher=McGraw-Hill, Inc. | location=New York | isbn=0-07-005570-X }}<!--| accessdate=2007-10-17 -->

[[Category:Network management]]
[[Category:Management cybernetics]]