PingFederate Administration Training

This course provides the tools necessary for a new PingFederate administrator to install, configure and maintain the PingFederate software in their environment by covering topics such as integration kits, adapters, SSO connections, and OAuth configuration. It is based on PingFederate version 12.0.

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

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 connections
  • Lab 2: Creating connections for IdP and SP web SSO
• Server logs

Day 2: Further Integration and PingFederate Functionality

• Attribute mapping and data source
  • Lab 3: Mapping attributes from external sources
  • Lab 4: Using an external source for authentication
• Introduction to authentication policies
  • Lab 5: Creating authentication selectors, policy contracts, and authentication policies
  • Lab 6: Tracing SSO transactions in the PingFederate logs

Day 3: OAuth2 and Advanced Administration

• Introduction to OAuth2
• OAuth2 scopes and access tokens
  • Lab 7: Configuring OAuth2 grants (including token validation, authorization code)
• Introduction to OIDC
• PingFederate administrative API
  • Lab 8: Using the admin API
• Deployment scenarios and clustering
  • Lab 9 (optional): Configuring a cluster