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Application Framework User Interface

Normally, it is not necessary to have any interaction with the application framework (CAF), as it runs as a service in the background. However, CAF provides a command line interface (caf command) that allows administrators local and remote access to CAF functionality, as in the following examples:

• Query the current status of all CAF plug-ins
• Start and stop CAF and all associated plug-ins and processes
• Start, stop, and question the status of an individual plug-in
• Enable and disable plug-ins

The CAF command line interface, in most cases, sends a message to CAF telling it to execute the command. The exceptions to this are the commands to start and stop the CAF service or daemon itself and a few configuration commands.

Note: On Windows Vista, most caf commands require full administrator rights to work. If you are a member of the administrators group but logged in as any other user apart from administrator, then a command line window will normally be running under user rights. To run caf commands, you must run the command line window by left clicking on the relevant icon and selecting Run as administrator.