This Recommendation | International Standard defines systems management protocol machine managed objects, thus allowing the use of the Common Management Information Protocol (CMIP), as defined in ITU-T Rec. X.711 | ISO/IEC 9596-1, to manage CMISE and SMASE application service elements and invocations.

This Recommendation | International Standard:

• establishes a model for supporting systems management application service elements;
• provides generic and formal definitions for supporting systems management application service element managed objects.

This Recommendation | International Standard does not:

• define new management functions;
• specify a framework or methodology for conformance tests.

In the context of this Recommendation | International Standard, the term systems management is used to refer to SMASE, CMISE, and ROSE.