Open Management Infrastructure

Open Management Infrastructure

Other names	NanoWBEM
Original author(s)	Microsoft, The Open Group
Developer(s)	Microsoft
Initial release	June 28, 2012; 12 years ago (2012-06-28)
Stable release	1.9.0 / April 2, 2024; 5 months ago (2024-04-02)
Repository	github.com/Microsoft/omi
Written in	C
Operating system	Linux, Unix
Platform	IA-32, x86-64
Standard(s)	CIM
Type	System configuration application
License	Apache License 2.0, MIT License[1]
Website	collaboration.opengroup.org/omi/

The Open Management Infrastructure stack (OMI, formerly known as NanoWBEM^[2]) is a free and open-source Common Information Model (CIM) management server sponsored by The Open Group and made available under the Apache License 2.0.^[3][4]

Overview

OMI was contributed to The Open Group by Microsoft on June 28, 2012, with the goal "to remove all obstacles that stand in the way of implementing standards-based management so that every device in the world can be managed in a clear, consistent, coherent way and to nurture [and] spur a rich ecosystem of standards-based management products."^[5] The source code is hosted on GitHub.

See also

• Windows Remote Management

References

1. "LICENSE at master · Microsoft/omi". GitHub.
2. "Microsoft drops OMI for Linux to GitHub". The Register.
3. "The Open Group works with Microsoft to create Open Management Infrastructure – The Open Group Blog". The Open Group. 26 February 2013.
4. "What Is the Difference Between WMI and CIM?". petri.com.
5. Open Management Infrastructure, Microsoft Windows Server Blog, 28 August 2023

External links

• OMI Project, The Open Group.
• omi on GitHub