ISO/IEC 24775-5:2021

Storage Management Technical Specification, Part 2 Common Architecture, 1.8.0 Rev 4 defines the core architecture and protocols in SMI-S. The components of SMI-S architecture include:

* Transport - communicating management information between constituents of the management system
* Health and fault management - detecting failures through monitoring the state of storage components
* General information about the object model
* Names - how SMI-S uses names to allow applications to correlate across SMI-S and to other standards
* Standard messages - how exceptions are presented to client applications
* Service discovery - techniques clients use to discover SMI-S services
* Installation and upgrade - recommendations for implementations
* Compliance - requirement for compliance to the standard