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CIM
CIM or Cim may refer to: Businesses and organizations Professional organizations * Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum, a professional organisation * The Chartered Institute of Marketing, a professional organisation Religious organizations * China Inland Mission, a missionary society * Congregation of Jesus and Mary (''Congregatio Iesu et Mariae''), a Society of Apostolic Life in the Roman Catholic Church Schools * Cebu Institute of Medicine, a medical school in Cebu City, Philippines * Cleveland Institute of Music, a school in Cleveland, Ohio * Cyprus Institute of Marketing Transportation * Chicago and Illinois Midland Railway * Cimber Air, ICAO code * Uniform Rules Concerning the Contract of International Carriage of Goods by Rail, known as CIM, adopted by the Intergovernmental Organisation for International Carriage by Rail Other organizations * California Institution for Men, a state prison in the United States * Comcast Interactive Media, a d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Common Information Model (computing)
The Common Information Model (CIM) is an open standard that defines how managed elements in an IT environment are represented as a common set of objects and relationships between them. The Distributed Management Task Force maintains the CIM to allow consistent management of these managed elements, independent of their manufacturer or provider. Overview One way to describe CIM is to say that it allows multiple parties to exchange management information about these managed elements. However, this falls short in expressing that CIM not only represents these managed elements and the management information, but also provides means to actively control and manage these elements. By using a common model of information, management software can be written once and work with many implementations of the common model without complex and costly conversion operations or loss of information. The CIM standard is defined and published by the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF). A related s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |