Global settings

Global settings affect how work enters the system and how the system appears to other users.

These global settings include the following:

• Security system values, which control security on your system, fall into one of four groups:

  • General security system values

  • Other system values with security properties

  • System values that control passwords

  • System values that control auditing

  Think of system values as company policy. System values apply to everyone using the system, unless something more specific, such as a user profile, overrides the system value. System values allow you to customize many characteristics of your system, including system security characteristics. For example, you can define how many sign-on attempts to allow at a device, whether the system automatically signs off inactive workstations, how long passwords can be used and changed, and other password characteristics.

• Network attributes, which control how your system participates (or chooses not to participate) in a network with other systems.

• Subsystem descriptions, which determine how work enters the system and what environment the work runs in. A number of work management values have security implications.

• Communications configuration affects how work enters your system. You must protect communication to and from your system with the rest of the network.

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