ministrative control, 
monitoring, and custom management of a GemFire system.
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The {@link org.apache.geode.admin.AdminDistributedSystemFactory}
is the starting point.  It creates an instance of
<code>AdminDistributedSystem</code> that administers the distributed
system to which a VM is {@linkplain
org.apache.geode.distributed.DistributedSystem connected}.
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<pre><code>
DistributedSystem connection = DistributedSystem.connect(new Properties());
AdminDistributedSystem system = 
    AdminDistributedSystem