AS/NZS 3692:1993

ISO/IEC 10040:1992

Australian/New Zealand Standard

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Information technology—
Open Systems Interconnection—
Systems management overview
 AS/NZS 3692:1993

This Joint Australian/New Zealand Standard was prepared by Joint Technical Committee
IT/1, Information Systems—Interconnection. It was approved on behalf of the Council of
Standards Australia on 21 July 1993 and on behalf of the Council of Standards
New Zealand on 22 April 1993. It was published on 25 October 1993.

The following interests are represented on Committee IT/1:

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Australian Association of Permanent Building Societies

Australian Bankers’ Association
Australian Bureau of Statistics
Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry
Australian Committee of Directors and Principals
Australian Computer Society
Australian Computer Users Association
Australian Information Industry Association
Australian Telecommunications Users Group
Australian Vice Chancellors Committee
Department of Defence, Australia
Department of Industry, Technology and Commerce, Australia
Information Exchange Steering Committee, Australia
Institute of Information and Communication Technologies, CSIRO, Australia
Life Insurance Federation of Australia
OPTUS Communications, Australia
Telecom, Australia

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 AS/NZS 3692:1993

Australian/New Zealand Standard

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Information technology—
Open Systems Interconnection—
Systems management overview

First published as Joint Standard AS/NZS 3692:1993.

PUBLISHED JOINTLY BY:

STANDARDS AUSTRALIA
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STANDARDS NEW ZEALAND

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ISBN 0 7262 8425 4
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PREFACE

This Standard was prepared by the Joint Australia/New Zealand Standards Committee IT/1, on Information
Systems—Interconnection. It is identical with, and has been reproduced from, ISO/IEC 10040:1992,
Information technology— Open Systems Interconnection — Systems management overview.
This Joint Standard is one of a series of Open Systems Interconnection (OSI ) Standards which are currently
under development. Since OSI Standards are developmental, there may be some minor difficulties
encountered in their implementation. For this reason, Standards Australia will be providing, through the
OSI Help Desk, a service to coordinate and disseminate information concerning difficulties which are
identified in using this Joint Standard.
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(b) The number of this Joint Standard is not reproduced on each page; its identity is shown only on the
cover and title pages.
For the purpose of this Joint Standard, the ISO/IEC text should be modified as follows:
(i) Terminology The words ‘Australian Standard’, ‘New Zealand Standard’ or ‘Joint Australian/
New Zealand Standard’ should replace the words ‘International Standard’ wherever they appear.
(ii) References The references to International Standards should be replaced by references to the
following Australian/New Zealand Standards:
Reference to International Standard Australian/New Zealand Standard
or other Publication

ISO AS
7498 Information processing systems—Open 2777 Information processing systems —Open
Sys tems I nte r con nect ion — Basi c Sys tems I nt er co nnec tion — Bas ic
Reference Model reference model

8649 Information processing systems — Open 3683 Information processing systems —Open
Systems Inter connection — Ser vice Systems Inter connection — Ser vice
definition of the Association Control definition of the Association Control
Service Element Service Element

8650 Information processing systems — Open 3684 Information processing systems —Open
Systems Interconnection — Protocol Systems Interconnection — Protocol
specification for the Association Control specification for the Association Control
Service Element Service Element

ISO/IEC
7498 Information processing systems—Open 2777 Information processing systems —Open
Sys tems I nte r con nect ion — Basi c Sys tems I nt er co nnec tion — Bas ic
Reference Model reference model
7498-4 Part 4: Management framework 2777.4 Part 4: Management framework

8571 Information processing systems — Open —

Systems Interconnection —File Transfer,
Access and Management

ISO/IEC
8825 Information technology— Open Systems
Interconnection— Specification of Basic
Encoding Rules for Abstract Syntax
Notation One (ASN .1)
3626 Information technology—Open Systems
Interconnection—Specification of basic
encoding rules for Abstract Syntax
Notation One (ASN .1)
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ISO/IEC AS
9072 Information processing systems—Text 3893 Information processing systems—Text
communication—Remote Operations communication—Remote Operations
9072-1 Part 1: Model, notation and service 3893.1 Part 1: Model, notation and service
definition definition
9072-2 Part 2: Protocol specification 3893.2 Part 2: Protocol specification

9545 Information technology—Open Systems 4021 Information technology— Open Systems

Interconnection—Application layer Interconnection—Application Layer
structure structure

9595 Information technology—Open Systems 3965 Information technology— Open Systems

Interconnection—Common management Interconnection—Common management
information service definition information service definition

9596 Information technology—Open Systems 3964 Information technology— Open Systems

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Interconnection—Common management Interconnection—Common management

information protocol information protocol
9596-1 Part 1: Specification 3964.1 Part 1: Specification

AS/NZS
9646 Information technology—Open Systems 4103 Information technology— Open Systems
Interconnection— Conformance testing Interconnection—Conformance testing
methodology and framework methodology and framework
9646-1 Part 1: General concepts 4103.1 Part 1: General concepts

AS
10026 Information technology—Open Systems —
Interconnection—Distributed Transaction
Processing

10164 Information technology—Open Systems

Interconnection— Systems management
10164-1 Part 1: Object management function —
10164-2 Part 2: State management function —
10164-3 Part 3: Attributes for representing —
relationships
10164-4 Part 4: Alarm reporting function —
10164-6 Part 6: Log control function —
10164-7 Part 7: Security alarm reporting —
function

ISO/IEC
10165 Information technology—Open Systems —
I nt e r co n n ec t i on — S tr u c tu r e o f
management information
10165-1 Part 1: Management information model —
10165-2 Part 2: Definition of management —
information
10165-4 Part 4: Guidelines for the definition of —
managed objects
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CONTENTS
Page

1 Scope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

2 Normative references . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
2.1 Identical CCITT Recommendations International Standards . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
2.2 Paired Recommendations International Standards equivalent in technical
content . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
2.3 Additional references . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

3 Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... 7
3.1 Basic reference model definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... 7
3.2 Management framework definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... 7
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3.3 CMISE definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 7

3.4 Management information model definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... 8
3.5 OSI conformance testing, methodology and framework definitions . . . . . . ... 8
3.6 Systems management overview definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... 8

4 Abbreviations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
5 Systems management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

6 Systems management model . . . . .. .. . .. .. ... .. . .. .. . .. .. .... ... .. .. 11

6.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . .... . .. .. ..... . .... . . .. . ... . ... .... 11
6.2 Information aspects . . . . . . .... . .... . .. .. . .... . .... .. .. . .. .... 12
6.3 Functional aspects . . . . . . . .... . .... .. ... . .... . .... . .. . ... .... 14
6.4 OSI communications aspects .... . . .. . .. .. . . . .. . . . .. . .. .. ... .... 14
6.5 Organizational aspects . . . . .... . .... ... .. . .... . .... .... .. . ... . 18

7 Systems management standards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . .. . . . .. . .. .. . . .. 19

7.1 Architecture and structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... . . .. .. . .. .. .. .. . . .. 19
7.2 Communication of management information . . ... . . .... . .... .. .. . . .. 20
7.3 Structure of management information . . . . . . ... . . .... . .. .. .. .. . . .. 20
7.4 Systems management functions . . . . . . . . . . ... . . . .. . . .... .. .. . . .. 20

8 Conformance and compliance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

8.1 Compliance to this Recommendation International Standard . . . . . . . . . . . 22
8.2 Conformance to this Recommendation International Standard . . . . . . . . . . 24

Annex A Application context for systems management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Annex B Scope statement for systems management functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

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Information technology—Open Systems

Interconnection—Systems management overview
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1 Scope

This Recommendation International Standard

– provides an overview to the family of systems management standards;

– establishes the basis for partitioning the systems management standards into separate groups, specifying
the scope of each group and identifying the principal components within each group;

– gives guidance on the development of systems management standards and identifies the way they relate
to each other;

– defines terms for use by other systems management standards.

– is applicable to the definition of all systems management standards and to all aspects of systems
management of whatever scale;

– is applicable to situations in which the responsibility for systems management is centralised and those
where it is decentralised;

– establishes a model for systems management identifies several aspects of systems management (i.e.,
information, functional, communications, and organizational), and further refines the model to clarify
these aspects;

– identifies the principles governing conformance requirements and conformance claims to systems
management standards.

There are no conformance requirements on the main body of this Recommendation International Standard, however
it does specify requirements on standards claiming compliance to systems management.

Annex A of this Recommendation International Standard defines an application context for systems management and
specifies the rules for negotiating systems management functional units. There are conformance requirements associated
with these rules.

2 Normative references

The following CCITT Recommendations and International Standards contain provisions which, through reference in this
text, constitute provisions of this Recommendation International Standard. At the time of publication, the editions
indicated were valid. All Recommendations and Standards are subject to revision, and parties to agreement based on
this Recommendation International Standard are encouraged to investigate the possibility of applying the most recent
editions of the Recommendations and Standards listed below. Members of IEC and ISO maintain registers of currently
valid International Standards. The CCITT Secretariat maintains a list of the currently valid CCITT Recommendations.

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Systems Interconnection - Systems management
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