CAN/CSA-Z243.141-91 (R2000)

This National Standard of Canada is equivalent to International Standard ISO/IEC 9595:1991. 1 Scope This International Standard defines an Application Service Element (the Common Management Information Service Element), which may be used by an application process in a centralized or decentralized management environment to exchange information and commands for the purpose of systems management, as defined by the OSI Management Framework in ISO/IEC 7498-4. This International Standard is positioned in the application layer of ISO 7498 and is defined according to the model provided by ISO/IEC 9545. The International Standard defines - a set of service primitives that constitute the application service element; - the parameters that are passed in each service primitive; - any necessary information for the semantic description of each service primitive. This International Standard does not define - the nature of any implementation intended to provide the defined service; - the semantics associated with the information or commands that are exchanged by means of the service; - the manner in which management is accomplished by the user of the service; - the nature of any interactions which result in the use of the service. No requirement is made for conformance to this International Standard.