The development of DMI, 2.0 version June 24, 1998, 1 marked the first move by the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) into desktop-management standards.

Before the introduction of DMI, no standardized source of information could provide details about components in a personal computer.

Static data in a MIF would contain items such as model ID, serial number, memory- and port-addresses.

For example, when an SNMP query arrives, DMI can fill out the SNMP MIB with data from its MIF.

A single workstation or server can serve as a proxy agent that would contain the SNMP module and service an entire LAN segment of DMI-capable machines.

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This document describes the Desktop Management Interface, or DMI, that acts as a layer of abstraction between these two worlds.

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