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PFAA-400-BVP Rev A
PingFederate Advanced Administration
This course steps the learner through various advanced PingFederate administration topics, such as configuring memory options for PingFederate, logging to a database server, configuring certificate revocation checking and certificate rotation, configuring self-service features of the HTML Form Adapter, identity provider (IdP) to service provider (SP) bridging, clustering with dynamic discovery, and more.
The following are the prerequisites for successfully completing this course:
- Completion of the PingFederate Administration course, or
- Equivalent experience with PingFederate
Day 1: Course Introduction
- Server Administration
- Configuring JVM memory options
- Configuring virtual host names
- Certificate based console administration
- Lab 1: Configuring OIDC-based console single sign-on (SSO)
PingFederate logging
- Customizing audit logs
- The log4j2.xml file
- Logging to an external database
- Lab 2: Logging with PingFederate
- Certificates
- Certificate revocation checking
- Certificate rotation
Day 2:
- HTML Form Adapter Self-Service Features
- Password spray and account lockout prevention
- Self-service password change
- Self-service password reset
- Self-service username recovery
- Lab 3: HTML Form Adapter self-service options
- HTML Form Adapter Self-Registration
- Customer IAM with local identity profiles
- Self-registration with local identity profiles
- Self-registration using third-party IdPs
- Lab 4: HTML Form Adapter customer registration
- Advanced Attribute Mapping
- Using multiple datastores
- Using REST API as a datastore
- Extended properties
- PingDirectory virtual attributes
- SSO Connections
- Customizing SSO URLs
- SP target URL mapping
- IdP-to-SP bridging
- Session management
- Lab 5: SSO connections
Day 3:
- Federation Hub
- Bridging an IdP to an SP
- Bridging an IdP to multiple SPs
- Bridging multiple IdPs to an SP
- Bridging multiple IdPs to multiple SPs
- OAuth2 and OIDC
- Dynamic client registration
- Using directories for persistent grant storage
- Creating and managing OIDC profiles
- Lab 6: Configuring OIDC profiles
- Clustering
- Cluster protocol architecture
- Runtime state management architecture
- Adaptive clustering
- Directed clustering
- Dynamic discovery
- Cluster replication
- Lab 7: Clustering
- Troubleshooting
- SSO issues
- OAuth2 issues
- Certificate issues
AIC-330-BVP Rev A
Getting Started With PingOne Advanced Identity Cloud for Administrators
This course shows students how to administer PingOne Advanced Identity Cloud (Advanced Identity Cloud), formerly known as ForgeRock® Identity Cloud. This is achieved through the various online resources available to them, to a fully functional hands-on development environment, where they learn how to administer Advanced Identity Cloud in a training environment. Students are provided with a live Advanced Identity Cloud environment, where they learn the concepts and tasks necessary to successfully manage identities, applications, user journeys, and tenant configuration in their own Advanced Identity Cloud.
Upon completion of this course, you should be able to:
- Describe how to access an Advanced Identity Cloud tenant as an administrator and understand UI integration options
- Manage identities with the Advanced Identity Cloud admin UI and implement delegated administration to manage organizations and reset user passwords
- Manage journeys, email templates used in journeys, and authentication sessions as an Advanced Identity Cloud administrator
- Understand the use of Applications, synchronize identities between Advanced Identity Cloud and external applications, and explore how Identity Gateway can protect web applications when it is integrated with Advanced Identity Cloud
- Manage the configuration, monitor tenant activities, and perform common administration tasks for Advanced Identity Cloud tenants
The following are the prerequisites for successfully completing this course:
- Completion of the Product Essentials courses available at: https://backstage.forgerock.com/university/cloud-learning
- Introduction to PingAM
- PingIDM Essentials
- PingGateway Essentials
- Introduction to PingDS
Chapter 1: Accessing Advanced Identity Cloud
Describe how to access an Advanced Identity Cloud tenant as an administrator and understand UI integration options.
Lesson 1: Managing Administrators
Invite additional administrators using the Advanced Identity Cloud admin UI, which is an administrative interface to manage your tenant settings:
Invite additional administrators using the Advanced Identity Cloud admin UI, which is an administrative interface to manage your tenant settings:
- Introduce the Advanced Identity Cloud admin UI
- Manage administrators
- Invite an administrator
Lesson 2: Introducing UI Integration
Understand UI integration options:
Understand UI integration options:
- Explain UI integration options
- Configure themes for the Alpha and Bravo realms
Chapter 2: Administering Identities
Manage identities with the Advanced Identity Cloud admin UI and implement delegated administration to manage organizations and reset user passwords.
Lesson 1: Managing Identities
Manage user identities:
Manage user identities:
- Introduce managed objects
- Manage a user profile
Lesson 2: Adding Identities With Bulk Import
Bulk import user identities from a CSV file to add test users to your tenant:
Bulk import user identities from a CSV file to add test users to your tenant:
- Describe bulk import
- Import test users
Lesson 3: Managing Organizations
Explain how an organization hierarchical structure can be used to model a brand hierarchy to control access to business applications:
Explain how an organization hierarchical structure can be used to model a brand hierarchy to control access to business applications:
- Describe roles and privileges within an organization
- Implement delegated administration for an organization model
Lesson 4: Delegating User Management
Explain how to delegate administration privileges to managed users:
Explain how to delegate administration privileges to managed users:
- Delegate administration privileges
- Delegate password reset
Chapter 3: Managing User Journeys
Manage journeys, email templates used in journeys, and authentication sessions as an Advanced Identity Cloud administrator.
Lesson 1: Managing Journeys
Understand how journeys are used with Advanced Identity Cloud and how to import, export, and debug journeys:
Understand how journeys are used with Advanced Identity Cloud and how to import, export, and debug journeys:
- Introduce journeys
- Modify journeys
- Describe how to export and import journeys
- Export and import journeys
- Describe how to debug a journey
- Enable debug mode on a user journey
Lesson 2: Managing Server-Side Sessions
Understand how authentication sessions are used with Advanced Identity Cloud and how to invalidate server-side sessions:
Understand how authentication sessions are used with Advanced Identity Cloud and how to invalidate server-side sessions:
- Describe server-side sessions
- Invalidate server-side sessions
Lesson 3: Configuring Email Templates
Understand the use of email templates in a journey flow:
Understand the use of email templates in a journey flow:
- Explore email templates and nodes
- Configure email templates
- Use email templates in user journeys
Chapter 4: Integrating With Advanced Identity Cloud
Understand the use of Applications, synchronize identities between Advanced Identity Cloud and external applications, and explore how PingGateway can protect web applications when it is integrated with Advanced Identity Cloud.
Lesson 1: Defining Applications
Describe the role of an application in Advanced Identity Cloud:
Describe the role of an application in Advanced Identity Cloud:
- Introduce applications
- Register a Bookmark app
Lesson 2: Synchronizing Identities
Connect to external resources using a Remote Connector Server (RCS), and synchronize identities between Advanced Identity Cloud and on-prem resources:
Connect to external resources using a Remote Connector Server (RCS), and synchronize identities between Advanced Identity Cloud and on-prem resources:
- Explain how to connect to external resources
- Configure an RCS cluster
- Configure debug logging
- Add an authoritative application
- Explain synchronization
- Create inbound mappings and run reconciliation
- Synchronize passwords
- Create a target Application with outbound mappings
Lesson 3: Protecting Web Resources
Demonstrate how PingGateway can protect a web application when it is integrated with Advanced Identity Cloud:
Demonstrate how PingGateway can protect a web application when it is integrated with Advanced Identity Cloud:
- Introduce PingGateway
- Integrate PingGateway with Advanced Identity Cloud
- Integrate the PingGateway sample application with Advanced Identity Cloud
Chapter 5: Administering Your Tenant
Manage the configuration, monitor tenant activities, and perform common administration tasks for Advanced Identity Cloud tenants.
Lesson 1: Managing the Configuration
Explain how to create service accounts to use the REST API endpoints, create a baseline configuration repository for developers, manage ESVs, and understand the promotion process:
Explain how to create service accounts to use the REST API endpoints, create a baseline configuration repository for developers, manage ESVs, and understand the promotion process:
- Introduce Service Accounts
- Create and manage a service account
- Introduce the Advanced Identity Cloud REST API
- Display Advanced Identity Cloud identities using the REST API
- Introduce configuration management
- Create a baseline configuration repository
- Describe how to manage ESVs
- Create and call ESV variables
- Promote your configuration
Lesson 2: Monitoring Tenant Activities
Explore and retrieve log data using the REST API and the Frodo CLI, monitor tenant activities, and visualize monitoring metrics using Prometheus and Grafana:
Explore and retrieve log data using the REST API and the Frodo CLI, monitor tenant activities, and visualize monitoring metrics using Prometheus and Grafana:
- Explore Logs
- Retrieve log data using the REST API
- Retrieve log data using the Frodo CLI
- Monitor your tenant
- Monitor tenant health and visualize monitoring metrics
- Explore the Advanced Identity Cloud analytics dashboard
Lesson 3: Managing Password Policies
Explain how an Advanced Identity Cloud administrator manages realm password policies:
Explain how an Advanced Identity Cloud administrator manages realm password policies:
- Manage realm password policies
- Configure password policies
Lesson 4: Additional Administration Tasks
Understand additional tasks that an Advanced Identity Cloud administrator should be aware of:
Understand additional tasks that an Advanced Identity Cloud administrator should be aware of:
- Introduce outbound static IP addresses
- View outbound static IP addresses
- Manage tenant certificates
- Add a custom domain name
PF-300-BVP Rev A
PingFederate Administration
This course implements various use cases with PingFederate and introduces industry concepts such as federation, SAML, and OAuth. The course also includes PingFederate-specific topics such as integration kits, adapters, SSO connections, and OAuth configuration. Hands-on exercises allow the participants to have first-hand experience in configuring PingFederate, establishing a web SSO connection and OAuth clients, and doing some basic troubleshooting.
The following are the prerequisites for successfully completing this course:
- Completion of the Getting Started With PingFederate course available at:
Day 1: Background of Federation Web SSO and Core Product
- Introduction to identity federation
- Introduction to integration kits
- Configuring SP and IdP adapters and password credential validators
- Lab 1: HTML Form Adapter and Reference ID adapter configuration
- Introduction to SAML
- Configuring IdP and SP SSO connection
- Lab 2: Creating connections for IdP and SP web SSO
- Lab 2: Creating connections for IdP and SP web SSO
- Server logs
- Lab 3: Review the server logs to follow and SSO transaction
Day 2: Further Integration and PingFederate Functionality
- Attribute mapping and data source
- Lab 4: Mapping attributes from external sources
- Lab 5: Using an external source for authentication
- Introduction to authentication policies
- Lab 6: Creating authentication selectors, policy contracts, and authentication policies
- Lab 7: Tracing SSO transactions in the PingFederate logs
Day 3: OAuth2 and Advanced Administration
- Introduction to OAuth2
- OAuth2 scopes and access tokens
- Lab 8: Configuring OAuth2 grants (including token validation, authorization code)
- Lab 9: Create an OAuth client for client Credentials grant type
- Lab 10: Create an OAuth client for a resource server
- Lab 11: Create an OAuth client for authorization grant type
- PingFederate administrative API
- Lab 12: Using the admin API
- Server Administration
- Deployment scenarios and clustering
- Lab 13 (optional): Configuring a cluster
AM-410-BVP Rev B.1
PingAM Deep Dive
The aim of this course is to showcase the key features and capabilities of the versatile and powerful PingAM (AM), formerly known as ForgeRock® Access Management. It provides the student with the knowledge and confidence to manage their own environment. It is accepted that this course is not able to demonstrate all the features and capabilities of AM. Further information and guidance can be found in the documentation and knowledge base in the online repositories at: Backstage https://backstage.forgerock.com.
Note: This course revision is based on version 7 of AM.
Upon completion of this course, you should be able to:
- Start with an unprotected website and end up with a fully functional access management solution where every user trying to access the website is redirected to AM for authentication
- Improve access management security in AM with multi-factor authentication (MFA), context-based risk analysis, and continuous risk checking
- Implement OAuth 2.0 (OAuth2) based protocols; namely, OAuth2 and OpenID Connect 1.0 (OIDC), to enable low-level devices and mobile applications to make requests that access resources belonging to a subscriber. AM can be configured to function as an OIDC client and delegate authentication to social media OIDC providers
- Demonstrate federation across entities using SAML v2.0 (SAML2) with AM
- Install a new AM instance configured with external directory server data stores as the foundation for an AM cluster
The following are the prerequisites for successfully completing this course:
- Completion of the PingAM Essentials course available at: https://backstage.forgerock.com/university/forgerock/on-demand/path/TGVhcm5pbmdQYXRoOjI%3D/chapter/Q291cnNlOjE1NzIy
- Knowledge of UNIX/Linux commands
- An understanding of HTTP and web applications
- A basic understanding of how directory servers function
- A basic understanding of REST
- A basic knowledge of Java based environments would be beneficial, but no programming experience is required
Chapter 1: Enhancing Intelligent Access
Start with an unprotected website and end up with a fully functional access management solution where every user trying to access the website is redirected to AM for authentication.
Lesson 1: Exploring Authentication Mechanisms
Explore the AM admin UI, view the role of cookies used during and after authentication, and describe authentication trees and nodes:
Explore the AM admin UI, view the role of cookies used during and after authentication, and describe authentication trees and nodes:
- Introduce AM authentication
- Understand realms
- Describe authentication life cycle
- Explain sessions
- Examine session cookies
- Access the lab environment
- Examine an initial AM installation
- Configure a realm and examine AM default authentication
- Experiment with session cookies
- Describe the authentication mechanisms of AM
- Create and manage trees
- Explore tree nodes
- Create a login tree
- Test the login tree
Lesson 2: Protecting a Website With PingGateway
Show how PingGateway, formerly known as ForgeRock® Identity Gateway, integrated with AM, can protect a website:
Show how PingGateway, formerly known as ForgeRock® Identity Gateway, integrated with AM, can protect a website:
- Present AM edge clients
- Describe PingGateway functionality as an edge client
- Review the FEC website protected by PingGateway
- Integrate the FEC website with AM
- Observe the PingGateway token cookie
- (Optional) Review PingGateway configuration
- Authenticate identities with AM
- Create an authentication tree with an LDAP Decision node
- Integrate identities in AM with an identity store
- Integrate an identity store with AM
Lesson 3: Controlling Access
Create security policies to control which users can access specific areas of the website:
Create security policies to control which users can access specific areas of the website:
- Describe entitlements with AM authorization
- Define AM policy components
- Define policy environment conditions and response attributes
- Describe the process of policy evaluation
- Implement access control on a website
Chapter 2: Improving Access Management Security
Improve access management security in AM with MFA, context-based risk analysis, and continuous risk checking.
Lesson 1: Increasing Authentication Security
Increase authentication security using MFA:
Increase authentication security using MFA:
- Describe MFA
- Register a device
- Include recovery codes
- Examine OATH authentication
- Implement time-based one-time password (TOTP) authentication
- (Optional) Implement HMAC-based one-time password (HOTP) authentication
- Examine Push notification authentication
- (Optional) Implement Push notification authentication
- Implement passwordless WebAuthn
- (Optional) Implement passwordless WebAuthn
- Examine HOTP authentication using email or SMS
- (Optional) Implement HOTP authentication using email or SMS
Lesson 2: Modifying a User’s Authentication Experience Based on Context
Describe how AM can take into account the context of an authentication request in order to make access decisions:
Describe how AM can take into account the context of an authentication request in order to make access decisions:
- Introduce context-based risk analysis
- Describe device profile nodes
- Determine the risk based on the context
- Implement a browser context change script
- Lock and unlock accounts
- Implement account lockout
Lesson 3: Checking Risk Continuously
Review the AM tools used to check the risk level of requests continuously:
Review the AM tools used to check the risk level of requests continuously:
- Introduce continuous contextual authorization
- Describe step-up authentication
- Implement step-up authentication flow
- Describe transactional authorization
- Implement transactional authorization
- Prevent users from bypassing the default tree
Chapter 3: Extending Services Using OAuth2-Based Protocols
Implement OAuth2 based protocols; namely, OAuth2 and OIDC, to enable low-level devices and mobile applications to make requests that access resources belonging to a subscriber. AM can be configured to function as an OIDC client and delegate authentication to social media OIDC providers.
Lesson 1: Integrating Applications With OAuth2
Integrate clients using OAuth2 by demonstrating the use of the OAuth2 Device Code grant type flow with AM configured as the OAuth2 authorization server (AS):
Integrate clients using OAuth2 by demonstrating the use of the OAuth2 Device Code grant type flow with AM configured as the OAuth2 authorization server (AS):
- Discuss OAuth2 concepts
- Describe OAuth2 tokens and codes
- Describe refresh tokens, macaroons, and token modification
- Request OAuth2 access tokens with OAuth2 grant types
- Explain OAuth2 scopes and consent
- Configure OAuth2 in AM
- Configure AM as an OAuth2 provider
- Configure AM with an OAuth2 client
- Test the OAuth2 Device Code grant type flow
Lesson 2: Integrating Applications With OIDC
Integrate an application using OIDC and the Authorization grant type flow with AM as an OIDC provider:
Integrate an application using OIDC and the Authorization grant type flow with AM as an OIDC provider:
- Introduce OIDC
- Describe OIDC tokens
- Explain OIDC scopes and claims
- List OIDC grant types
- Create and use an OIDC script
- Create an OIDC claims script
- Register an OIDC client and configure the OAuth2 Provider settings
- Test the OIDC Authorization Code grant type flow
Lesson 3: Authenticating OAuth2 Clients and using mTLS in OAuth2 for PoP
Authenticate OAuth2 clients with AM using various approaches and obtain certificate-bound access tokens using mutual TLS (mTLS) to provide token proof-of-possession (PoP):
Authenticate OAuth2 clients with AM using various approaches and obtain certificate-bound access tokens using mutual TLS (mTLS) to provide token proof-of-possession (PoP):
- Examine OAuth2 client authentication
- Examine OAuth2 client authentication using JWT profiles
- Examine OAuth2 client authentication using mTLS
- Authenticate an OAuth2 client using mTLS
- Examine certificate-bound PoP when mTLS is configured
- Obtain a certificate-bound access token
Lesson 4: Transforming OAuth2 Tokens
Request and obtain security tokens from an OAuth2 authorization server, including security tokens that employ impersonation and delegation semantics:
Request and obtain security tokens from an OAuth2 authorization server, including security tokens that employ impersonation and delegation semantics:
- Describe OAuth2 token exchange
- Explain token exchange types and purpose for exchange
- Describe token scopes and claims
- Implement a token exchange impersonation pattern
- Implement a token exchange delegation pattern
- Configure token exchange in AM
- Configure AM for token exchange
- Test token exchange flows
Lesson 5: (Optional) Implementing Social Authentication
Provide a way for users to register and authenticate to AM using a social account:
Provide a way for users to register and authenticate to AM using a social account:
- Delegate registration and authentication to social media providers
- Implement social registration and authentication with Google
Chapter 4: Federating Across Entities Using SAML2
Demonstrate federation across entities using SAML2 with AM.
Lesson 1: Implementing SSO Using SAML2
Demonstrate single sign-on (SSO) functionality across organizational boundaries:
Demonstrate single sign-on (SSO) functionality across organizational boundaries:
- Discuss SAML2 entities and profiles
- Explain the SAML2 flow from the identity provider (IdP) point of view
- Examine SSO across SPs
- Configure AM as an IdP and integrate with third-party service providers (SPs)
- Examine SSO between an SP and IdP and across SPs
Lesson 2: Delegating Authentication Using SAML2
Delegate authentication to a third-party IdP using SAML2 and examine the metadata:
Delegate authentication to a third-party IdP using SAML2 and examine the metadata:
- Explain the SSO flow from the SP point of view
- Describe the metadata content and purpose
- Configure AM as a SAML2 SP and integrate with a third-party IdP
Chapter 5: Installing and Deploying AM
Install a new AM instance configured with external directory server data stores as the foundation for an AM cluster, modify the AM configuration to harden security, upgrade an AM instance to a new version, and deploy the Ping Identity Platform, formerly known as the ForgeRock® Identity Platform, to the Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
Lesson 1: Installing and Upgrading AM
Install AM using interactive and command-line methods creating the foundations for a cluster topology, and upgrade an AM 7.0.1 instance to AM 7.3:
Install AM using interactive and command-line methods creating the foundations for a cluster topology, and upgrade an AM 7.0.1 instance to AM 7.3:
- Plan deployment configurations
- Prepare before installing AM
- Deploy AM
- Outline tasks and methods to install AM
- Install AM with the web wizard
- Install an AM instance with the web wizard
- Install AM and manage configuration with Amster
- Install Amster
- Describe the AM bootstrap process
- Upgrade an AM instance
- Upgrade AM with the web wizard
- (Optional) Upgrade AM with the configuration tool
Lesson 2: Hardening AM Security
Explore a few default configuration and security settings that need to be modified before migrating to a production-ready solution:
Explore a few default configuration and security settings that need to be modified before migrating to a production-ready solution:
- Harden AM security
- Adjust default settings
- Harden AM security
- Describe secrets, certificates, and keys
- Describe keystores and secret stores
- Manage the AM keystore, aliases, and passwords
- Configure and manage secret stores
- Configure an HSM secret store to sign OIDC ID tokens
- Describe the monitoring tools
- Describe the audit logging
- Describe debug logging
- Capture troubleshooting information
- Capture troubleshooting information
Lesson 3: Clustering AM
Create an AM cluster with a second AM instance added to the first AM instance that has already been installed:
Create an AM cluster with a second AM instance added to the first AM instance that has already been installed:
- Explore high availability solutions
- Scale AM deployments
- Describe AM cluster concepts
- Create an AM cluster
- Prepare the initial AM cluster
- Install another AM server in the cluster
- Test AM cluster failover scenarios
- (Optional) Modify the cluster to use client-side sessions
Lesson 4: Deploying the Identity Platform to the Cloud
Deploy the Identity Platform into a cluster in a Google Kubernetes Environment (GKE):
Deploy the Identity Platform into a cluster in a Google Kubernetes Environment (GKE):
- Describe the Identity Platform
- Prepare your deployment environment
- Deploy and access the Identity Platform
- Access and authenticate your GCP account
- Prepare to deploy the Identity Platform
- Deploy the Identity Platform with the Cloud Development Kit (CDK)
- Remove the Identity Platform deployment
PD-400-BVP Rev A.1
PingDirectory Administration
This course provides the knowledge you need to install and administer each component of the PingDirectory platform which includes: PingDirectory server, PingDirectoryProxy server, PingDataSync server, the PingData Software Development Kit (SDK), and Delegated User Administration. This course references real-world scenarios driven by recurring use cases. You learn how to install each PingDirectory platform component, perform basic maintenance, using the monitoring and troubleshooting tools. While, hands-on lab exercises provide the first-hand experience installing, configuring, tuning, and using the troubleshooting tools
This course is built on version 10.
Upon completion of this course, you should be able to:
- Describe the PingDirectory capabilities and key features, summarize the installation procedures, and review the initial configuration tasks
- Deploy, fine tune, and configure the PingDirectory server to meet the needs of your production environment
- Describe how to install and manage the PingDirectoryProxy server
- Describe the functions provided by the PingDataSync server, and how to install, configure, and synchronize the PingDataSync server
- Describe common maintenance and necessary troubleshooting tasks needed to optimize PingDirectory performance.
The following are the prerequisites for successfully completing this course:
- Knowledge of UNIX/Linux commands.
- A basic understanding of how directory servers function.
- A basic understanding of REST and HTTP.
- A basic knowledge of Java based environments would be beneficial, but no programming experience is required.
- Completion of the Introduction to PingDirectory available at: https://backstage.pingidentity.com/university/
Chapter 1: Installing PingDirectory
Describe the PingDirectory capabilities and key features, summarize the installation procedures, and review the initial configuration tasks.
Lesson 1: Providing an Overview of PingDirectory
Describe the capabilities and key features of PingDirectory:
- Describe the key features of PingDirectory
Lesson 2: Installing the PingDirectory Server
Summarize the PingDirectory server installation procedures:
- Perform pre-installation procedures
- Install PingDirectory
- Describe post-installation procedures
Lesson 3: Completing Initial Configuration
Complete the PingDirectory server initial configuration settings:
- Use server profiles
- (Optional) Install PingDirectory
Chapter 2: Deploying PingDirectory
Deploy, fine tune, and configure the PingDirectory server to meet the needs of your production environment.
Lesson 1: Managing the Schema
Lesson 1: Managing the Schema
Describe the functions of the schema, and modify the schema by creating new attribute types, object classes, and a new custom user:
- Describe the schema
- Modify the schema
- Modify the schema
- Modify object classes
- Create auxiliary object classes
- Load custom schema elements
Lesson 2: Managing Objects
Define objects in LDAP and use the command-line tools to search, add, modify, and delete entries:
- Search entries
- Manage entries
- Create objects
Lesson 3: Using Security and Encryption
Describe the basic vulnerabilities in LDAP server implementations, secure server data, use the encryption-settings tool to create an encryption settings database, and create sensitive attributes:
- Prevent data vulnerability
- Keep data secure
- Configure encryption settings
Lesson 4: Using Virtual Attributes
Define virtual attributes and their use, recall the virtual attribute types, and create mirrored virtual attributes:
- Define virtual attributes
- Administer virtual attributes
Lesson 5: Managing Password Policies
Describe how to use password policies, and then create and assign password policies to individual accounts and/or user groups:
- Describe password policies
- Create a password policy
Lesson 6: Administering JSON Attributes
Describe how to manage and create JSON attributes:
- Manage JSON attributes
- Create JSON attributes
- Manage the Password Policy State JSON
- Administer JSON Attributes
Lesson 7: Managing the REST APIs
Describe the available REST APIs, list the HTTP methods available, and use the Directory REST API to create and update user entries:
- Understand the Rest APIs
- Use the SCIM 2.0 REST API
- Administer the Directory REST API
Lesson 8: Managing Logging
List the three types of available log publishers, describe the elements of the log format, and create log publishers:
- Manage log publishers
- Configure logging
- Create a log publisher
Lesson 9: Managing Replication
Define the replication process and architecture, set up a server topology, enable the replication process, and initialize new replicas:
- Understand replication
- Enable replication
- Resolve conflicts
- Understand the replication protocol
- Use replication over WAN
- Plan deployment
- Configure replication
- Scale replication
- Enable the replication process
Lesson 10: Managing Server Topologies
Discuss the topology registry, create server groups to aid in configuration changes, and compare configurations on separate directory servers:
- Define the topology registry
- Administer the server topology
Chapter 3: Administering the PingDirectoryProxy Server
Describe how to install and manage the PingDirectoryProxy server.
Lesson 1: Providing an Overview of the PingDirectoryProxy Server
Describe the capabilities and key features of the PingDirectoryProxy server:
- Describe the key features
Lesson 2: Installing the PingDirectoryProxy Server
Describe how to install the PingDirectoryProxy server:
- Describe the installation process
- Install the PingDirectoryProxy server
- Lesson 3: Managing the PingDirectoryProxy Server
- Describe the key advanced PingDirectoryProxy server transformation features:
- Describe the proxy transformations
- Understand entry balancing
- Create transformations
Chapter 4: Administering the PingDataSync Server
Describe the functions provided by the PingDataSync server, and how to install, configure, and synchronize the PingDataSync server.
Lesson 1: Providing an Overview of PingDataSync
Describe the capabilities and key features of the PingDataSync server:
- Describe the key features
Lesson 2: Installing the PingDataSync Server
Summarize the PingDataSync server installation procedures:
- Install the PingDataSync server
- Use the start, stop, and restart commands
- Describe the failover server
- Install the failover server
- Install the PingDataSync server
Lesson 3: Configuring the PingDataSync Server
Define and install the PingDataSync server components:
- Define Sync Pipe components
- Create the synchronization flow
- Use the retry mechanism
- Configure the PingDataSync server
- Configure and synchronize the PingDataSync server
Lesson 4: Synchronizing the PingDataSync Server
Describe the features needed, in a relational database and AD, to allow synchronization through the PingDataSync serve:
- Synchronize with a relational database
- Synchronize with AD
Chapter 5: Troubleshooting and Maintenance
Describe common maintenance and necessary troubleshooting tasks needed to optimize PingDirectory performance.
Lesson 1: Providing an Overview of the Server SDK
Provide an overview of the Server SDK:
- Describe the key features of the Server SDK
Lesson 2: Maintaining the PingDirectory Server
Summarize common PingDirectory maintenance tasks:
- Use the start, stop, and restart server commands
- Understand common maintenance tasks
- Perform maintenance tasks
- Understand Delegated Admin
- Configure Delegated Admin
- Administer Delegated Admin
- Understand data recovery
- Perform data recovery
Lesson 3: Monitoring a PingDirectory Deployment
Explain how monitoring is a vital part of a PingDirectory deployment:
- Monitor the PingDirectory server
Lesson 4: Troubleshooting the PingDirectory server
Provide information about available troubleshooting tools and log files to help ensure the resolution of any problems:
- Understand how to troubleshoot issues
- Repair a conflict resolution
- Use troubleshooting tools
PA-400 BVP Rev A
PingAccess Administration
This course provides the information you need to set up and configure PingAccess as a policy server to protect both web applications and APIs. After completing this course, you will know how to configure PingAccess in both a gateway and agent model, and configure different types of policies that PingAccess offers.
Upon completion of this course, you should be able to:
- Discover how to configure PingAccess as a reverse proxy, and connect PingAccess to a token provider (PingFederate)
- Configure PingAccess as a Reverse Proxy
- Configure policies in PingAccess to further bolster administration capabilities
The following are the prerequisites for successfully completing this course:
- Completion of the following courses:https://backstage.pingidentity.com/university/on-demand/category/PING
- Introduction to PingAccess
- Getting Started With PingAccess
- Introduction to PingFederate
- Getting Started With PingFederate
Chapter 1: Configuring and Connecting PingAccess
Discover how to configure PingAccess as a reverse proxy, and connect PingAccess to a token provider (PingFederate).
Lesson 1: Configuring PingAccess as a Reverse Proxy (Gateway Model)
Describe how to configure PingAccess as a reverse proxy (gateway model):
- Introduce the gateway model
- Enable PingAccess as a reverse proxy
- Configure PingAccess resources and rewrite rules
Lesson 2: Connecting PingAccess to a Token Provider (PingFederate)
Describe the responsibilities of token providers and how to configure PingAccess to use PingFederate as a token provider:
- Introduce token providers
- Configure OAuth2 in PingFederate
- Configure PingAccess using the gateway model
Chapter 2: Configuring PingAccess Applications, Agents, and Sites
Configure PingAccess as a Reverse Proxy.
Lesson 1: Protecting Web Apps
Describe how to protect web apps by configuring them with PingAccess and OpenID Connect (OIDC):
- Define the OIDC protocol
- Introduce web sessions
- Create a web session using OIDC claims
Lesson 2: Working With Sites
Create identity mappings and advanced web session:
- Create identity mappings and advanced web sessions
Lesson 3: Working With Rules and Policies
Describe how to work with rules and policies within PingAccess:
- Describe the rules and policies process
- Create web access rules
- Create API access control rules
Chapter 3: Configuring Policies and Administration
Configure policies in PingAccess to further bolster administration capabilities.
Lesson 1: Maintaining PingAccess Discuss how to maintain PingAccess through resources, audit logs, and redirection:
- Dive deeper into resources
- Examine audit logs
- Manage redirection
Lesson 2: Configuring PingAccess as a Policy Server (Agent Model)
Configure PIngAccess to be a policy server by implementing the agent model:
- Introduce the agent model
Lesson 3: Optimizing and Configuring PingAccess
Optimize PingAccess through configuration, single sign-on (SSO), and the admin API:
- Implement improvements
- Enable PingAccess administrator SSO
- Use the PingAccess administrative API
- Increase the JVM Heap Size
Lesson 4: Creating PingAccess Clusters
Create PingAccess clusters to increase resilience and simplify procedures:
- Deploy clustersConfigure simple clusters in PingAccess (Optional)