[Zope] how to programmatically control zope?

[akonsu]

hello, would someone please point me to the right direction? what is
the preferred way to control a zope server programmatically? i need to
be able to administer my zope instance from a script. add users,
change permissions, create new sites, add objects to the sites. there
is webdav, xml-rpc, what else? which one is the right way to do it? i
am a newbie i hope this is not a frequent question, at least i did not
find an answer in the documentation...

thanks
konstantin