s mainly on management of enter- prise and Internet systems. The interoperability standards of DMTF help to reduce operational costs in a multivendor environment. DMTF is composed of three committees. They are: Technical committee: This committee is used to steer the work group creation, operation, and closure for developing standards and initiatives of DMTF. Interoperability committee: The work of this committee is handled by focus groups that work on providing additional data on interoperability in multi- vendor implementations based on DMTF resources. Marketing committee: The role of this committee is to ensure that the activities of DTMF get enough visibility and resources have industrial acceptance. Some of the technologies that DMTF works on are: Common information model (CIM): It defines a common language for rep- resenting management information as objects and relations. The architecture is object oriented and based on UML (unified modeling language). CIM has two parts, the schema that describes the models and specifications that detail CIM integration with other information models. Standardizing Bodies Web-based enterprise management (WBEM): It defines standards for remote application management on a distributed computing environment. OpenPegasus, OpenWBEM, SBLIM, WBEM Services, and WBEMsource are some of the open source implementation of WBEM. It incorporates a set of technologies including CIM representation in XML, CIM query, URI (uniform resource identifier) mapping and discovery using a protocol called service location protocol (SLP). Desktop and mobile architecture for system (DASH) initiative: It defines a set of standards on Web services management for desktop and mobile client systems. Using DASH, desktop and mobile systems on different platforms from multiple vendors can be managed based on standards in a remote and secure manner. Systems management architecture for server hardware (SMASH) initiative: Its standards are mainly on a command line protocol (CLP) with support for interfaces, Web ser