This Recommendation 1 International Standard defines the Management knowledge management function. The Management knowledge management function is a Systems Management function which may be used by an application process in a centralized or decentralized management environment to interact for the purpose of systems management, as defined by the OS1 Management framework, CCITT Rec. X.700 and ISO/IEC 7498-4. This Recommendation 1 International Standard defines a function which consists of generic definitions and services. This function is positioned in the application layer of the OS1 reference model, ITU-T Rec. X.200 1 ISO/IEC 7498-1, and is defined according to the model provided by ITU-T Rec. X.207 ) ISO/IEC 9545. The role of systems management functions is described by CCITT Rec. X.701 I ISO/IEC 10040.