PingDirectory Advanced Administration

This course deepens your PingDirectory platform knowledge by diving into advanced concepts and exploring specific topics to expand your administrator capabilities.

This course consists of lectures and hands-on lab exercises which reference real-world scenarios driven by recurring use cases. Each student is required to provide their own laptop that has an SSH client and configuration allowing connections to WiFi and access to external servers.

The target audiences for this course include:

• IT professionals responsible for advanced PingDirectory configuration and troubleshooting
• Those who have completed the PingDirectory Administration course or achieved the Certified Professional – PingDirectory certification
• Those considering taking the Certified Expert – PingDirectory exam

The following are the prerequisites for successfully completing this course:

• Completion of the PingDirectory Administration course, or
• Equivalent experience with PingDirectory

Day 1:

• Lab 1: Configure PingDirectory to run on server setup
• Lab 2: Using soft deletes
• Lab 3: Creating custom data
• Lab 4: Creating client connection policies
  • PingDirectory and the JVM Heap
• Lab 5: Alarms, Alerts, and Gauges
• Lab 6: Managing certificates

• Lab 7: The consent API
• Lab 8: Advanced schema and entry management
• Lab 9: Advanced logging
• Lab 10: Working with ACIs
• Lab 11: Working with indexes

• Lab 12: Reverting an upgrade
  • The topology registry
• Lab 13: Managing the topology and replication
  • Remove a defunct server from the topology
  • Manually initialize a server
• Lab 14: Advanced PingDirectoryProxy Server
  • Entry balancing
  • Global indexes
  • Groups and entry balancing
  • Replication and entry balancing
  • Entry balancing monitoring
  • Dynamic rebalancing

• Lab 15: PingDataSync and Active Directory
• Lab 16: PingDataSync and PingOne
  • View the PingOne configuration
  • Using PingOne as a sync destination
  • Setting up pass-through authentication to PingOne