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Administering an AFS Cell has many aspects.  The care and feeding of the users, clients and servers is a traditional component of system administration, but the scale of some AFS installations provides some new challenges.  Two of these are OrganizingNameSpace and ManagingVolumes.

Some tools have been written to help.  The =scout= command provides a view of servers and partition, =uss= simplifies creation of user accounts, and the ControlCenter provides a more friendly graphical interface to many admin tasks.

Some AFS sites have develop their own tools: CMU, Morgan Stanley, and others.  (need list here and pointers to descriptions and tools)  Some of these are in [[http://grand.central.org/twiki/bin/view/AFSLore/ResourcesFAQ#4_01_Is_there_an_anonymous_FTP_s][afs-contrib]] and others maybe available from the sites themselves.

Main.LeoShyhWeiLuan has proposed a JavaAPI to simplify writing and sharing tools.

There is also a Perl API, written by Roland Schemers and now maintained and developed by [[Main.NorbertGruener][Norbert E. Grüner]] and described on his [[http://www.mpa-garching.mpg.de/kwiki/nog/afsperl/][AFS Perl Kwiki]], which provides access to most of the AFS programming API.  It comes with extensive [[http://www.mpa-garching.mpg.de/~nog/doc/afsperl.html][documentation]].

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See AdminFAQ, SettingUpAuthentication.

-- Main.TedAnderson - 14 Feb 2002