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 signon 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.