Task Group T11.5

T11.5 is the Task Group within Technical Committee T11 responsible for Storage Management Interfaces. T11.5 held its first meeting on October 8, 2002, and its last meeting on December 6, 2007..

The approved scope for TG T11.5 was:

Task Group T11.5 will take an all-inclusive approach to the definition of device level interfaces between management applications and all devices in a storage network. Such devices may include storage devices, server devices, gateway devices, fabric devices, and other related equipment. T11.5 will emphasize techniques that are independent of network topology, platform environment, and infrastructure technology.

T11.5 will specifically address heterogeneous storage network configurations that incorporate interfaces based on T11 standards (e.g. Fibre Channel) as well as technologies not developed in T11. It will seek to use existing management schemes and protocols to the maximum extent possible. It will provide guidance designed to optimize and standardize the implementation of management schemes for storage networks, facilitating interoperability. It will not create modifications of schemes defined by other organizations, but will maintain liaison with them to facilitate the incorporation of features in those schemes that contribute to the work of T11.5.

Technical Information on the projects allocated to TG T11.5 can be found by following these project links. The following additional information is available:



Information on CIM & SNMP is also available.


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