Implementing Shibboleth at Your Organisation

Course Overview

The UK federation provide a standardised way of exchanging authentication and authorisation requests in a consistent, secure and privacy preserving manner. This course will provide a number of hands-on labs for delegates to work through in small groups, centred around the installation and advanced configuration of a Shibboleth 1.3 Identity Provider*. This will then be tested against a reference Shibboleth Service Provider.

* While Shibboleth 2 is available, Shibboleth 1.3 is still relevant as it will be the most common version deployed for the near future. However, we will be rolling out a new version of this course early next year covering Shibboleth 2 - see course overview for details.

Topics Covered

Understanding Shibboleth
Identity Provider Pre-requisites
Identity Provider Installation
Identity Provider Configuration
Advanced Identity Provider Topics

Who should attend?

This technical course is aimed at anyone responsible for implementing a production federated access management service who has system administration skills with either Windows Server 2003 or Red Hat Linux.

Delegates wishing to find out more about the Federation in general should attend our Introduction to the UK Federation course.

Timetable/On the Day

The course timetable will be adjusted on the day to allow discussion of areas of particular interest to the audience. The course will therefore run from 10am to 4.30pm. Registration will take place from 09:45 – 10:00.

All our courses are designed to provide a balance between practical activities and information dissemination as research shows people learn when they are engaged within the instructional process. This course has a particular emphasis on hands-on activities which take up most of the day. These activities will be performed on a Linux (CentOS 5) or Windows (Windows Server 2003 SE) Virtual Machine (VM), running on VMWare Server on laptops provided as part of the course.

Please Note:

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 licencing 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 2003 installed (either directly or in a VM) you will be able to use this during the course and thus keep the copy.

All delegates will receive a workbook specifically written for the course.

Cost

The cost for staff working in Government funded Higher Education Institutes, Further Education Colleges and the Research Councils is £180 including VAT
All Regional Broadband Consortia, Local Authorities and delegates from UK Schools will be charged £200 including VAT
Sites with JANET sponsored connections, commercial companies working with or for JANET customers (for example working under an outsourced support contract or those involved in the UK federation scheme). £275 including VAT.

For further details please see Training Prices.

Related Courses

We strongly recommend that delegates new to Federated Access Management and Shibboleth attend our Introduction to the UK Federation course prior to attending this course. Implementing Shibboleth at your Organisation focuses on the technical implementation and therefore assumes an understanding of the Federation process and architecture.