The functional entities for configuration management SEAL service are described in the following subclauses.
The configuration management client functional entity acts as the application client for configuration related transactions. The configuration management client interacts with the configuration management server and provides and receives configuration data. The configuration management client also supports interactions with the corresponding configuration management client between the two UEs.
The configuration management client functional entity is supported by the signalling user agent and HTTP client functional entities of the signalling control plane.
The configuration management server is a functional entity used to configure one or more vertical applications with 3GPP system related vertical applications provisioning information and configure data on the configuration management client. The configuration management server manages vertical application configuration supported within the vertical's service provider. The configuration management server acts as CAPIF's API exposing function as specified in
TS 23.222. The configuration management server also supports interactions with the corresponding configuration management server in distributed SEAL deployments.
The configuration management server functional entity is supported by the SIP AS and HTTP server functional entities of the signalling control plane.