The Guidelines for the Definition of Managed Objects (GDMO) is a specification for defining

managed object In network, a managed object is an abstract representation of network resources that are managed. With ''representation'', we mean not only the actual device that is managed but also the device driver, that communicates with the device. An examp ...

s of interest to the Telecommunications Management Network (TMN) for use in

Common Management Information Protocol The Common Management Information Protocol (CMIP) is the OSI specified network management protocol. Defined iITU-T Recommendation X.711, ISO/IEC International Standard 9596-1 It provides an implementation for the services defined by the Common ...

(CMIP). GDMO to the

Structure of Management Information In computing, the Structure of Management Information (SMI), an adapted subset of Abstract syntax notation one, ASN.1, is a technical language used in definitions of Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) and its extensions to define sets ("modul ...

for defining a

management information base A management information base (MIB) is a database used for managing the entities in a communication network. Most often associated with the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP), the term is also used more generically in contexts such as in ...

for

Simple Network Management Protocol Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) is an Internet Standard protocol for collecting and organizing information about managed devices on IP networks and for modifying that information to change device behavior. Devices that typically su ...

(SNMP). For example, both represent a hierarchy of managed objects and use

ASN.1 Abstract Syntax Notation One (ASN.1) is a standard interface description language (IDL) for defining data structures that can be serialized and deserialized in a cross-platform way. It is broadly used in telecommunications and computer networ ...

for syntax. GDMO is defined in ISO/IEC 10165 and

ITU-T The International Telecommunication Union Telecommunication Standardization Sector (ITU-T) is one of the three Sectors (branches) of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). It is responsible for coordinating Standardization, standards fo ...

X.722.

References

Network management ITU-T recommendations ITU-T G Series Recommendations {{Compu-network-stub