Custom authentication engine startup and shutdown process

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During startup, OneSpan Authentication Server performs the following steps for each defined custom authentication engine:

  1. Load the authentication engine library to the server process.
  2. If step 1 succeeds, call the ikey_initialise() function of the authentication engine library.
  3. If step 2 succeeds, register the authentication engine in the system.

    If step 2 fails, unload the authentication engine library from the server process.

During shutdown, OneSpan Authentication Server performs the following steps for each defined custom authentication engine:

  1. Unregister the custom authentication engine from the system.
  2. Call the ikey_terminate() function of the authentication engine library.
  3. Unload the authentication engine library from the server process.