Distributed Management Task Force, Inc. (DMTF) is an industry organization working with development of management standards and integration technology for enterprise and Internet environments. DMTF standards provide common management infrastructure components for instrumentation, control and communication in a platform-independent and technology neutral way. DMTF technologies include information models (CIM), communication/control protocols (WBEM), and core management services/utilities.

One of the most well-known implementations are Microsoft WMI.

• CIM: CIM provides a common definition of management information for systems, networks, applications and services, and allows for vendor extensions. CIM’s common definitions enable vendors to exchange semantically rich management information between systems throughout the network.
• Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) is a set of management and Internet standard technologies developed to unify the management of distributed computing environments. WBEM provides the ability for the industry to deliver a well-integrated set of standard-based management tools, facilitating the exchange of data across otherwise disparate technologies and platforms.
• The Directory Enabled Network (DEN) initiative is designed to provide the building blocks for more intelligent management by mapping concepts from CIM (such as systems, services and policies) to a directory, and integrating this information with other WBEM elements in the management infrastructure. This utilizes existing user and enterprise-wide data already present in a company's directory, empowers end-to-end services, and supports distributed network-wide service creation, provisioning and management.

Data Ductus has worked extensively with all DMTF standards from CIM modelling to develop WBEM/WMI and DEN solutions. Our projects range from Windows WMI applications to large Telco Inventory solutions based on DEN.

We provide training in DMTF standards, contents:

• Introduction to DMTF
• Introduction to DMTF standards
• Common Information Model, CIM
• Web-based enterprise management, WBEM.
• Directory Enabled Networks, DEN.