system management
163567·updated Aug 30, 2026This phrase is compositional rather than a term of art. In the context of the quoted passage — listing duties such as assessments and programming alongside it — "system management" carries its plain administrative meaning: the routine operational oversight and administration of information systems, including configuration, maintenance, and operational control. In the IT field more broadly, systems management refers to enterprise-wide administration of distributed systems including computer systems. While NIST's CSRC glossary does define compound phrases built on "system management" — such as System Management Mode, a high-privilege processor operating mode used for low-level system management functions that is entered only after a System Management Interrupt, and System Management Tools (NISTIR 8219) — none of these is the sense the source document uses; the source passage uses the words in their ordinary, compositional combination as a category of administrative work.
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A category of organizational activity encompassing the ongoing administration, configuration, operation, and oversight of information systems to ensure they function securely and in accordance with policy. In security and compliance frameworks, it appears as a functional domain alongside activities such as risk assessments, security programming, and personnel management — denoting the day-to-day operational stewardship of systems rather than any narrower mechanism. Authority documents such as NIST SP 800-12 use "system management personnel" as a distinct role category alongside general users and security personnel, and the broader field treats systems management as enterprise-wide administration of distributed systems — making the phrase compositional rather than a term with a fixed, field-specific definition not derivable from its parts.
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- §1 · attested_usage_reviewer_confirmed
- No definition is given in NIST SP 800-171r3. The term is attested in use at 1 citation in that document; a definition is pending curation.Increment 2: attested in 800-171r3 without a glossary definition.
- §1 · web_lookup_draft
- This phrase is compositional rather than a term of art. In the context of the quoted passage — listing duties such as assessments and programming alongside it — "system management" carries its plain administrative meaning: the routine operational oversight and administration of information systems, including configuration, maintenance, and operational control. In the IT field more broadly, systems management refers to enterprise-wide administration of distributed systems including computer systems. While NIST's CSRC glossary does define compound phrases built on "system management" — such as System Management Mode, a high-privilege processor operating mode used for low-level system management functions that is entered only after a System Management Interrupt, and System Management Tools (NISTIR 8219) — none of these is the sense the source document uses; the source passage uses the words in their ordinary, compositional combination as a category of administrative work.DR-088 backfill from the noun definition column