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# NFD Management protocol
NFD Management protocol allows users, tools, and control plane programs to retrieve, monitor, and alter NFD forwarder state.
## Basic mechanisms
NFD Management protocol uses Interest-Data exchange.
**[[StatusDataset|Status Dataset]]** defines how status information about a collection of entities is encoded, segmented, and published as Data packets.
This mechanism, as well as simple Interest-Data exchange, is useful for retrieving forwarder state.
**[[Notification|Notification Stream]]** is a way to get updates about events happening in the forwarder.
This mechanism is useful for monitoring forwarder state.
**[[ControlCommand|Control Command]]** defines the request and response format of commands that can alter forwarder state, and how these commands should be signed and authenticated.
This mechanism is useful for altering forwarder state.
## Modules
**[[ForwarderStatus]]** publishes version information and global counters of the forwarder.
**[[FaceMgmt|Face Management]]** provides:
* commands to create and destroy faces
* commands to enable and disable [[LocalControlHeader]] features on a face
* a dataset of description of all active faces and their counters
* a dataset of description of all active channels
* a notification stream for face creating and destroying events
**[[FibMgmt|FIB Management]]** provides:
* commands to insert, update, and delete FIB entries and nexthop records
* a dataset of FIB entries and nexthop records
**[[StrategyChoice|Strategy Choice Management]]** provides:
* commands to choose the forwarding strategy for a namespace
* a dataset of strategy choices
**[[RibMgmt|RIB Management]]** provides:
* commands to register and unregister routes
* commands to advertise and withdraw prefix with a routing protocol
* a dataset of routes