More on the Common Information Model

We have previously mentioned the CIM, or  Common Information Model, in the context of systems management standards. It is effectively an object-oriented schema for classifying objects pertaining to systems management. 

An example schema can be found here (note: there are multiple versions of the schema).

Notes from Microsoft Learn on this topic can be found in Microsoft's WMI SDK notes here.

From an organization perspective, the most important aspect is consistent adoption of a sufficiently descriptive data model, rather than the details of the data modelling itself.