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 [afs-contrib](http://grand.central.org/twiki/bin/view/AFSLore/ResourcesFAQ#4_01_Is_there_an_anonymous_FTP_s) and others maybe available from the sites themselves. Leo Shyh WeiLuan 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 Norbert Gruener and described on his [AFS Perl Kwiki](http://www.mpa-garching.mpg.de/kwiki/nog/afsperl/), which provides access to most of the AFS programming API. It comes with extensive [documentation](http://www.mpa-garching.mpg.de/~nog/doc/afsperl.html). ---- See [[AdminFAQ]], [[SettingUpAuthentication]]. -- Ted Anderson - 14 Feb 2002