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Storage Management Technical Specification, Part 2 Common Architecture, 1.8.0 Rev 4 defines the core architecture and protocols in SMI-S. The components of SMI-S architecture include: Transport - communicating management information between constituents of the management system Health and fault management - detecting failures through monitoring the state of storage components General information about the object model Names - how SMI-S uses names to allow applications to correlate across SMI-S and to other standards Standard messages - how exceptions are presented to client applications Service discovery - techniques clients use to discover SMI-S services Installation and upgrade - recommendations for implementations Compliance - requirement for compliance to the standard