Managing security for logical partitions and operating systems

When all logical partitions are managed by the Hardware Management Console, you can control who has access to the HMC and the system. You can also use the IBM® eServer™ Security Planner to help you plan a basic security policy for each of the operating systems on your system.

When all logical partitions are managed by the Hardware Management Console (HMC), the system administrator for the HMC can control who has access to the HMC and the managed systems by creating HMC user roles. The user roles control who can access different parts of the HMC and what tasks they can perform on the managed system.

You can use the IBM eServer Security Planner to help you plan a basic security policy for each of the operating systems on your IBM Power Systems™ hardware. The planner provides you with a list of recommendations for setting password rules, resource-access rules, logging and auditing rules, and other security settings that are specific to the operating system.