Internet Service Manager

The following section describes the design of the Internet Service Manager (ISM) application and the Internet Service Manager API set (ISMAPI), which the ISM uses to communicate with the ISM Configuration DLLs.

The Internet Service Manager is designed to be a dynamic, extendable remote and local administration tool, which performs no configuration itself, but instead manages a set of configuration DLLs (also referred to as extension DLLs) to perform configuration tasks. A service is deemed to be  configurable  by the ISM if a configuration DLL has been loaded by it.