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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