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 and others maybe available from the sites themselves.

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 Norbert E. Grüner^? and described on his AFS Perl Kwiki, which provides access to most of the AFS programming API. It comes with extensive documentation.

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See AdminFAQ, SettingUpAuthentication^?.

-- TedAnderson - 14 Feb 2002