Effective RACF Administration
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This course prepares you to be a more effective security administrator as you gain experience and confidence in using the RACF component of the z/OS Security Server. To reinforce lectures, the course offers hands-on exercises where you use the RACF component of the z/OS Security Server to define users, set up group structures, define general resources, protect z/OS data sets, and use several RACF utilities.
Table of contents
- Short Summary
- Modality
- Cost
- Publish date
- Retire date
- Duration
- Agenda
- Objectives
- Brand/Department
- Product
- Skill Level
- Key Topics
- Audience
- Labs
- Follow-on Courses
Short Summary
This course prepares you to be a more effective security administrator as you gain experience and confidence in using the RACF component of the z/OS Security Server.
Modality
Classroom or Instructor-led online
Cost
paid
Amount
300
Publish Date
July 20, 2002
Retire Date
April 30, 2028
Duration
36 hours
Agenda
Day 1
- Welcome
- Unit 1 - Security and RACF overview
- Unit 2 - Administering groups and users
- Exercise 1 - Log on to the lab system
- Exercise 2 - Defining a RACF group structure
- Exercise 3 - User administration
Day 2
- Exercise review
- Unit 2 - Administering groups and users (continued)
- Exercise 4 - Delegating security administration
- Unit 3 - Protecting z/OS data sets
- Exercise 5 - Protecting z/OS data sets: Part 1
Day 3
- Exercise 5 - Protecting z/OS data sets: Part 1 (continued)
- Exercise 6 - Protecting z/OS data sets: Part 2 Exercise review
- Unit 4 - Introduction to user administration and delegation and general resources
- Exercise 7 - Password reset granularity
- Unit 5 - RACF database, tables, and performance options
Day 4
- Unit 6 - RACF utilities and exits
- Unit 7 - RACF options
- Unit 8 - Auditing the RACF environment
- Exercise 8 - Using RACF for TSO administration (Optional)
- Exercise 9 - RACF utilities (Optional)
- Exercise 10 - RACF monitoring
Day 5
- Exercise review
- Unit 9 - Storage management and RACF
- Unit 10 - Security for JES facilities
- Unit 11 - Security classification
Objectives
- Identify the security requirements of a system
- Evaluate the facilities and options of RACF
- Define users to RACF
- Set up a RACF group structure
- Use RACF to protect resources
- Select options to tailor RACF
- Evaluate and implement RACF database and performance options
- Identify tools available for auditing
- Administer the system so that it is consistent with the installation's security goals