The Component registry is a centralised database of registered components and services, which supports multiple management protocols and data models, such as SNMP and TR-069 with TR-181.
The Component Registrar(CR) in RDK-B Architecture section gives an overview of CCSP Component Registrar, what it contains and illustrates how it is used by other internal components and client applications.
Some of the APIs supported by Component Registrar:
| API | Description |
| registerCapabilities | Components to use this API to register supported parameters and objects with Cr |
| unregistername_space | API to unregister a specific parameter/object |
| unregisterComponent | API to deregister a specific component |
| discComponentSupportingNamespace | API to discover the component supporting a parameter or object |
| checkNamespaceDataType | API to discover the data type of the parameters supported |
| getRegisteredComponents | API to discover all the registered components at that time |
| discNamespaceSupportedByComponent | API to discover all the parameters registered by a component |