# oamcfg overview

The NMS OAM configuration utility oamcfg enables you to perform the following operations:

- Create or delete boards in the database

- Specify settings for a component's parameters, either individually or collectively, using board keyword files

- Start or stop one or more boards

- Test boards (if supported)

- Detect boards in a system

- Display basic ID information for boards

- Import or export the contents of the OAM database

oamcfg can perform a given operation for a single board, or it can configure all boards in a single invocation.