Monitor authority

This topic provides basic suggestions for monitoring the effectiveness of the security safeguards on your system.

A set of security reports are available to help you keep track of how the authority is set up on your system. When you run these reports initially, you can print everything (authority for all the files or for all the programs, for example).

After you have established your base of information, you can run the changed versions of reports regularly. The changed versions help you identify security-relevant changes on your system that require your attention. For example, you can run the report that shows the public authority for files every week. You can request only the changed version of the report. It will show you both new files on the system that are available to everyone and existing files whose public authority has changed since the last report.

Two menus are available to run security tools:
If you are using iSeries™ Navigator, follow these steps to run the security tools:
  1. In iSeries Navigator, expand your Server > Security.
  2. Right-click Policies and select Explore to display a list of policies you can create and manage.

Review your security policy statement and your security memo to users as you decide which monitoring tasks you need to perform regularly. The following topics discuss several items to watch for, when monitoring authority: