The Common Management Information Service (CMIS) is the service interface specified in 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

Common management information protocol

The Common Management Information Protocol is the OSI specified network management protocol.Defined in . It provides an implementation for the services defined by the Common Management Information Service specified in , allowing communication between network management applications and...

 (CMIP) as specified in ITU-T Recommendation X.711, ISO/IEC International Standard 9596-1. CMIS is part of the Open Systems Interconnection

Open Systems Interconnection

Open Systems Interconnection is an effort to standardize networking that was started in 1977 by the International Organization for Standardization , along with the ITU-T.-History:...

 (OSI) body of international network standards.

Note the term CMIP is sometimes used erroneously when CMIS is intended. CMIS/CMIP is most often used in telecommunication

Telecommunication

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 applications, in other areas SNMP

Simple Network Management Protocol

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 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 association services

To transfer

Transfer

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 management information

Information

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 between open systems using CMIS/CMIP, peer connections, i.e., associations, must be established. This requires the establishment of an Application layer

Application layer

The Internet protocol suite and the Open Systems Interconnection model of computer networking each specify a group of protocols and methods identified by the name application layer....

 association, a Session layer

Session layer

The session layer is layer 5 of the seven-layer OSI model of computer networking.The session layer provides the mechanism for opening, closing and managing a session between end-user application processes, i.e., a semi-permanent dialogue. Communication sessions consist of requests and responses...

 connection, a Transport layer

Transport layer

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 connection, and, depending on supporting communications

Telecommunication

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 technology, Network layer

Network layer

The network layer is layer 3 of the seven-layer OSI model of computer networking.The network layer is responsible for packet forwarding including routing through intermediate routers, whereas the data link layer is responsible for media access control, flow control and error checking.The network...

 and Link layer

Link Layer

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 connections.

CMIS initially defined management association services but it was later decided these services could be provided by ACSE

ACSE

Association Control Service Element is the OSI method for establishing a call between two application programs. ACSE checks the identities and contexts of the application entities, and could apply an authentication security check....

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