AS/NZS 4151.1:1994

This Recommendation International Standard is one of the set of Recommendations International Standards for the OSI Management Information Service (MIS). It defines the Information Model of managed objects and their attributes that corresponds to the Information aspects of the systems management model introduced in the Systems Management Overview CCITT Rec. X.701 ISO/IEC 10040, thus providing the modelling concepts necessary for the development of the other systems management Recommendations International Standards. It also defines the principles of naming managed objects and attributes.This Recommendation International Standard defines the logical structure of systems management information. In accordance with CCITT Rec. X.700 ISO 7498-4 and X.701 ISO/IEC 10040 management information is structured in terms of managed objects, their attributes, the management operations that can be performed upon them, and the notifications that they can emit. The set of managed objects in an open system, together with their attributes, constitutes that open system's management information base (MIB).This Recommendation International Standard defines the concepts of managed objects in the Information Model, and prescribes the principles for naming the managed objects and their attributes so that they may be identified in and accessed by management protocols. This Recommendation International Standard also describes the concept of managed object classes and the relationships into which managed objects and managed object classes can enter, including: inheritance, specialization, allomorphism and containment.This Recommendation International Standard applies to all definitions of managed objects and their attributes for the purposes of systems management.NOTE - Although this Recommendation International Standard applies to systems management, layer management, when defined, can also use this Recommendation International Standard.

First published as Joint Standard AS/NZS 4151.1:1994.