Feature Manager Server Guide

Purpose

The feature management server maintains the table which contains and maintains the list of features available on the device.

Required background

The feature management system uses the standard client server architecture that is the feature manager server that does the work associated with the feature management functionality. Communication between the application and the server is undertaken by two dlls.

Architecture

The relationship between the parts of the feature management system is :

Figure 1. Architecture of the feature management system

APIs

Communication to and from the feature management server is only provided by the methods available in the Feature Manager Client API and the Feature Manager Discovery API.

Typical uses

These are the same as for feature management (since it does all the work). They include adding, disabling, enabling and removing features.

For the description of the APIs used in feature management look at the component overview for featmgr.dll and featdiscovery.dll.