INCITS 388.1@ Information Technology ?C Storage Management Technical Specification ?C Part 1: Common Architecture 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 ? Policy - the expression of management behavior such that administrators and other management software can control that behavior@ tailoring it to accomplish specific goals. ? 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