Distributed Management Task Force

Founded in 1992 as the Desktop Management Task Force, the organization's first standard was the now-legacy Desktop Management Interface (DMI). As the organization evolved to address distributed management through additional standards, such as the Common Information Model (CIM), it changed its name to the Distributed Management Task Force in 1999, but is now known as, DMTF. The DMTF continues to address converged, hybrid IT and the Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) with its latest specifications, such as the Redfish standard, SMBIOS, SPDM, and PMCI standards. ==Standards==

DMTF standards include: • CADF - Cloud Auditing Data Federation • CIMI - Cloud Infrastructure Management Interface • CIM - Common Information Model • CMDBf - Configuration Management Database Federation • DASH - Desktop and mobile Architecture for System Hardware • MCTP - Management Component Transport Protocol Including NVMe-MI, I2C/SMBus and PCIe Bindings • NC-SI - Network Controller Sideband Interface • OVF - Open Virtualization Format • PLDM - Platform Level Data Model Including Firmware Update, Redfish Device Enablement (RDE) • Redfish – Including Protocols, Schema, Host Interface, Profiles • SMASH - Systems Management Architecture for Server Hardware • System Management BIOS (SMBIOS) – Standardized Host Management Information • SPDM - Security Protocol and Data Model ==References==