Host Security Integration Components

Figure 7.7 Elements of a typical host security domain.

Host Security Integration uses a host security domain concept to manage user accounts on your network and your host system. Your host security domain defines the different security domains that share a common user accounts database. A simple security domain may consist of a host domain, a Windows NT domain, and an SNA Server subdomain, as shown in Figure 7.7.

Host Security Integration is composed of three separately installable components:

This section describes each of the components, the circumstances under which you would choose to use them, and where the underlying services are installed on your network.