IBM System Blue Gene Solution: Blue Gene/Q System Administration

Security

This chapter provides an overview of the security architecture for Blue Gene/Q. There are three aspects to the Blue Gene/Q security model: an object-based model, network communications, and the database.

 

18.1 Object based model

Blue Gene/Q uses an object-based security model with three basic object types:

•Job

•Block

•Hardware

There are five types of actions upon these objects:

•Create

•Read

•Update

•Delete

•Execute

Not all actions apply to all object types, for example, the update action does not apply for a job object.

There is also ...