ISO/IEC 10164-11:1994/Amd 1:1998 PDF

Overview

ISO/IEC 10164-11:1994/Amd 1:1998 is an amendment to the OSI Systems Management standard dealing with metric objects and attributes. Amendment 1 adds and formalizes Implementation Conformance Statement (ICS) proformas - including Management Conformance Summary (MCS), Management Information Conformance Summary (MICS), Managed Object Conformance Statement (MOCS) and Managed Relationship Conformance Statement (MRCS) proformas - used to declare and verify conformance of implementations. The amendment is published jointly with ITU‑T as X.739/Amd.1.

Key topics and requirements

• Conformance structure: Defines both static and dynamic conformance concepts for manager and agent roles. Implementations must declare which role(s) they support.
• Proforma requirements: MCS, MICS, MOCS and MRCS proformas in Annexes E–N must be used exactly (table numbering and index preserved) when suppliers produce conformance statements.
• Minimum role requirements:
  • Manager role: must support at least one management operation or notification for the metric managed objects; specific minimum notifications are listed (object creation, deletion, attribute change, state change, QoS alarm).
  • Agent role: must support one or more instances of specified managed object classes (e.g., mean monitor, mean and variance monitor, moving average mean monitor, monitor metric, etc.).
• Encoding / transfer syntax: Requires support for the ASN.1 transfer syntax derived from CCITT Rec. X.209 | ISO/IEC 8825 named {joint‑iso‑itu‑t asn1(1) basicEncoding(1)} for abstract data types referenced.
• Conformance documentation: Suppliers complete the MCS (Annex E) and any referenced ICS proformas per ITU‑T Rec. X.724 | ISO/IEC 10165‑6 instructions.
• Traceability: Amendment cross‑references conformance testing standards such as ISO/IEC 9646 series and related ITU‑T recommendations.

Practical applications and users

Who uses this standard:

• Product vendors and suppliers preparing formal conformance statements for system management products.
• Developers of management agents and managers that implement OSI metric objects and need to demonstrate conformance.
• Conformance testers and QA teams validating implementations against proforma requirements.
• Procurement and interoperability teams requiring standardized declarations of management capabilities.

Typical use cases:

• Producing an MCS/MOCS to accompany a management agent or manager product.
• Verifying which metric monitor object classes an implementation supports (for network monitoring, performance measurement, QoS alarms).
• Ensuring consistent conformance documentation for interoperability testing and certification.

Related standards

• ITU‑T Rec. X.739 / ISO/IEC 10164‑11 (base document)
• ITU‑T Rec. X.724 / ISO/IEC 10165‑6 (ICS completion guidance)
• ITU‑T Rec. X.735 / ISO/IEC 10164‑6 (log control)
• ITU‑T Rec. X.738 / ISO/IEC 10164‑13 (summarization)
• ISO/IEC 9646 series (conformance testing methodology)

Keywords: ISO/IEC 10164-11:1994 Amendment 1, OSI systems management, metric objects, MCS proforma, MOCS, MRCS, implementation conformance statement, ASN.1 basicEncoding, ITU‑T X.739.