This Recommendation | International Standard defines a Systems Management Function that may be used by an application process in a centralized or decentralized management environment to interact for the purpose of systems management, as defined by ITU-T Rec. X.200 | ISO/IEC 7498-1. This Recommendation | International Standard defines a function which consists of generic definitions, services, and functional units. This function is positioned in the application layer of ITU-T Rec.X.200 | ISO/IEC 7498-1 and is defined according to the model provided by IS0 9545.The role of systems management functions is described by CCITT Rec. X.701|IS0 /IEC 10040.