DMTF Learning Center

The DMTF is committed to providing the educational materials necessary to enable the proper implementation of DMTF standards and technologies. These include MOF education and more. If there are additional areas you would like to see addressed by DMTF educational materials, please let us know using our online comment form.

DMTF Technical Notes

DMTF Tech Notes deliver high-level overviews on topics of interest:

• Driving DASH and SMASH Conformance, Quality and Customer Satisfaction (December 2007)
  
• Reducing the Cost and Complexity of Managing a Virtualized Environment (November 2007)
• SMASH Simplifies Cross-Platform Server Management (September 2007)
  
• DASH Delivers Multi-Vendor Management for Desktop and Mobile Systems (March 2007)
• The Growing Importance of Management Standards (95k PDF)
• DMTF Standards Technical Note (29k PDF)
• Why CIM? (32k PDF)
• ASF Technical Note (36k PDF)
• CIM Technical Note (112k PDF)
• DEN Mapping Technical Note (26k PDF)
• SMBIOS Technical Note (163k PDF)
  

White Papers

Be sure to view the latest DMTF White Papers, available on the DMTF Web site. These White Papers address the technical specifics of using the CIM schemas.

Presentations

• SLA Management in Next Generation Networks: DMTF and TMF Join Forces to Address the Challenge (PDF)
  Presented at the TeleManagement Forum's Management World Americas 2007 by Alex Zhdankin, co-chair of the DMTF Telco Work Group and official DMTF representative in the ITU-T Next Generation Network Management Focus Group. The TM Forum works with DMTF to enable Service Assurance and monitoring to be performed transparently across transport and enterprise resources in the context of NGN.

• Building Manageable Products Through Industry Standards (PDF)
  Presented at the 2007 Server Blade Summit, this presentation provides a basic introduction into the Database Management Task Force. It features DMTF SMASH and Virtualization technologies and offers a management scenario to illustrate their use.

• Advantages of Standards-Based Management for Data Center Optimization (PDF)
• DMTF president Winston Bumpus makes the case for “Why standards?” in this PowerPoint presentation given at the 2007 Next Generation Data Center conference.