Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF, formerly "Desktop Management Task Force") is an industry consortium that develops, supports, and maintains standards for systems management of PC systems and products, to reduce total cost of ownership. These include the Desktop Management Interface (DMI), the most-widely used management standard today. The DMTF is participating in an industry effort to create a standard for management over the Internet. They are defining an object-oriented common information model (CIM). See also: Directory-Enabled Networking. External Links http://www.dmtf.org/ This article was originally based on material from FOLDOC, used with permission. Update as needed. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.