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title: Administration
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# Administration

API Security Enforcer (ASE) is deployed by modifying configuration files to support your environment. The configuration files consist of the following:

* `ase.conf` – the master configuration file with parameters to govern ASE functionality.

* `cluster.conf` – configures ASE cluster setup.

* `abs.conf` – configures ASE to ABS (AI Engine) connectivity. ASE sends log files to ABS for processing and receives back client identifiers (for example, token, IP address, cookie) to block.