About
The UK Access Management Federation provide a standardised way of exchanging authentication and authorisation requests in a consistent, secure and privacy-preserving manner. Organisations who have members who wish to access such resources may wish to run their own Shibboleth identity provider to enable this. Similarly, organisations who have resources they wish to give access to through this method may wish to run their own Shibboleth service provider to enable this.
This course will be held on two consecutive days by Rhys Smith, our chief technical architect, trust and identity. The course will start off by providing a number of discussions and hands-on labs for delegates to work through individually and in a small group, centred around the installation and configuration of a Shibboleth 3 identity provider; this will then be tested against a reference Shibboleth service provider.
It will then move on to centre around the installation and configuration of a Shibboleth 3 service provider; along with guidance and practical experience of integrating this with a web application's access control mechanism this installation will then be tested against a reference Shibboleth 3 identity provider.
This course includes some discussion of migration from an existing Shibboleth IdP or SP installation.
Benefits
- Share good practice and learn from others from within academic networking
- Tailored course specifically designed for Janet Network-connected organisations
- One year of online support following the course
- High-quality materials including case studies, checklist and examples
- Learn from subject matter experts within the Janet Network community
- Affordable prices
- All course materials, equipment and labs provided
Course format
Registration begins at 09:30 and the course will run between 10:00 and 16:30.
Our programme is made up of two, one-day workshops, led by subject experts. Both courses have a particular emphasis on hands-on activities which take up most of both days. These activities will be performed on either a Linux (CentOS 6) or Windows (Windows Server 2008 R2) Virtual Machine (VM), running on VMWare Server on laptops provided as part of the course.
Although designed as a complementary set of workshops, it is possible for you to attend the workshops individually. You will be able to select which workshop(s) you wish to attend when you book.
All refreshments and lunch are provided.
Course materials
If you wish to work with the Linux VM you will be able to take a copy of the VM image home with you after the course to continue to practice and modify. Please bring a USB memory stick or portable external USB hard disk with at least 3GB of free space.
Due to licensing conditions associated with Windows, delegates wishing to work with the Windows VM do not have this option. However, if you bring your own laptop to the course with a fully licensed and legal copy of Windows Server 2008 installed (either directly or in a VM) you will be able to use this during the course and thus keep the copy.
Who should attend
This technical course is aimed at anyone responsible for implementing a Shibboleth identity provider and/or service provider who has system administration skills with either Windows Server 2008 R2 (64 bit) or CentOS 6 (64 bit).
What we cover
Training course one (identity provider)
- Understanding Shibboleth
- Identity provider prerequisites
- Identity provider installation
- Identity provider configuration
- Advanced identity provider topics
Training course two (service provider)
- Service provider prerequisites
- Service provider installation
- Service provider configuration
- Integrating Shibboleth with web applications
- Advanced service provider topics
Pricing and eligibility
| Members | Non-members | |
|---|---|---|
| One-day training course | £350 +VAT1 | £500+VAT |
| Full programme (two days) | £600 +VAT | £900+VAT |
Footnotes
- 1 VAT is charged at 20% of the value of the service. If you are a member of Jisc’s VAT-exempt cost sharing group, and you are able to provide confirmation of the exact taxable/exempt use of the service, we will be able to reduce the amount of VAT chargeable to reflect the taxable business use proportion of the service only. This additional information is required as a result of a change to HMRC policy. Please contact training@jisc.ac.uk if you require more information.
Contact
For more information, email training@jisc.ac.uk or phone 01235 822242.