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PF-300-BVP Rev A

PingFederate Administration

PING
Nov 18, 2025, 9 AM UTC
3 days
€3150
/
£2685
/
$3375

Summary

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.

Prerequisites

The following are the prerequisites for successfully completing this course:

  • Completion of the Getting Started With PingFederate course available at:
    • https://backstage.forgerock.com/university/ping/on-demand/category/PING

Topics

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
  • 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
    Introduction to OIDC
  • PingFederate administrative API
    • Lab 12: Using the admin API
  • Server Administration 
  • Deployment scenarios and clustering
    • Lab 13 (optional): Configuring a cluster