The most recent approved version of SMI-S is available on the SNIA website.
[2] The main objective of SMI-S is to enable broad interoperable management of heterogeneous storage vendor systems.
The entire SMI Specification is categorized in profiles and subprofiles.
A profile describes the behavioral aspects of an autonomous, self-contained management domain.
At a very basic level, SMI-S entities are divided into two categories: