COMMON MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SERVICE (CMIS)

A service that specifies the service interface to the Common Management Information Protocol (CMIP). ( 188 ) Note: To transfer management information between open systems using CMIS/CMIP, peer connections, i.e., associations, must be established. This requires the establishment of an Application Layer association, a Session Layer connection , a Transport Layer connection, and, depending on supporting communications technology, Network Layer and Link Layer connections.