# Aerospike Admin (asadm)

Aerospike Admin (asadm) is an interactive Python utility that monitors and manages Aerospike instances at the cluster level.

## Overview

`asadm` is an interactive Python utility that monitors and administers an Aerospike cluster. Use `asadm` to do any of the following:

-   Read summarized information about the current health of a cluster.
-   Administer the access control list (ACL).
-   Add and remove user-defined functions (UDFs) and secondary indexes (sindexes).
-   Change and execute dynamic configurations.
-   Tune commands across the cluster.
-   Set the roster.
-   View and cancel jobs.

`asadm` is bundled and installed with the [Aerospike server packages](https://aerospike.com/download/server/enterprise/). To run `asadm` on a different machine than where the database is installed, download and install it from the [Aerospike Admin repository](https://github.com/aerospike/aerospike-admin) on GitHub.

## `asadm` modes

You can run `asadm` in the following modes:

-   Live cluster mode: The default mode for `asadm` to execute commands across an entire running cluster. See [Live cluster mode commands](https://aerospike.com/docs/database/tools/asadm/live-mode).
-   Collectinfo analyzer mode: An offline mode where `asadm` replays a snapshot or snapshots stored in a `collectinfo` archive. Use the `collectinfo` command in live-cluster mode to create this archive. See [Collectinfo-analyzer mode commands](https://aerospike.com/docs/database/tools/asadm/analyzer).
-   Log analyzer mode: An offline mode where `asadm` works from Aerospike database log files. See [Log Analyzer mode commands](https://aerospike.com/docs/database/tools/asadm/analyzer).

## Related topics

-   [Run Admin (asadm) commands](https://aerospike.com/docs/database/tools/asadm/asadm-commands)
-   [Dynamic runtime config](https://aerospike.com/docs/database/tools/runtime-config)
-   [Managing queries](https://aerospike.com/docs/database/manage/cluster/queries)
-   [Aerospike tools configuration file](https://aerospike.com/docs/database/tools/conffile)
-   [Aerospike tools release notes](https://aerospike.com/docs/database/tools/release-notes)