Short for
Common Information Model, an industry standard, developed by the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF), for describing
data about
applications and
devices so that administrators and
software management programs can control applications and devices on different platforms in the same way, ensuring
interoperability across a
network.
Using techniques of
object-oriented programming, CIM provides a consistent definition and structure of data, including expressions for elements such as object
classes, properties, associations and
methods.