Shibboleth Federation Workshop

NOTE: an additional workshop is scheduled for Feb 2009 at MQ University for those who missed the events or would like to refresh/clarify their understanding of the Shibboleth Federation.

Announcement PDF: AAFShibbolethRolloutWorkshop.pdf

As part of preparing community readiness for AAF, we are holding a number of free 2-day workshops in major cities in Australia during the months of October and November, 2008 (and this is extended for Feb'09 event).

Day 1 of the workshop will cover the following topics (not hands-on):

• Introduction of AAF
• Institutional requirements, obligations, and procedures for joining AAF
• AAF policy and operational procedures
• tools, processes, support and technical infrastructure of AAF

Day 2 of the workshop is divided into 2 half-day hands-on sessions. The morning session is "Shibboleth Fast-track for Beginners" and the afternoon session is "Advanced Shibboleth".

Day 2 Session 1: Shibboleth Fast-track for Beginners

• Configuring a pre-installed IdP
• LDAP, resolving attributes, simple attribute mapping
• Configuring a pre-installed SP
• Detail of interactions between IdP and SP
• Protecting an application
• Access limitation enforcement to services
• Authorization mechanisms
• Overview of tools in the Federation, may not get the chance to explore them all in detail

Day 2 Session 2: Advanced Shibboleth

• Attribute Management via ShARPE and Autograph
• Management of Federation entry, service discovery, controlling access for end-users
• User discovery and PeoplePicker
• mapping user's attributes to local user account, enforcement of authorization
• SharedToken and Grid services
• Suite of tools for collaboration: Federated Services
• Interfacing to non-web applications
• Other topics (please send me email for suggestion)

Intended Audience

The intended audience are IT directors, managers, Librarians, technical architects, developers, who want to learn more about federated identity and access management, and don’t mind getting their hands dirty (if you register on 2nd day).

Locations, Timing, and Dates

Details of exact locations are as followed. Some venues have restricted parking, please check map for detail.

Time	What
9.30 am	Reception, coffee/tea
10 am	Start session
12.30 pm - 1.30 pm	Lunch
4 pm	Conclude

When	Where	Location	Address	Map
Oct 16-17	Canberra	Univ Canberra	Clive Price Suite 2 UCU Conf. Centre Building 1, Kirinari St Bruce ACT 2617	http://ucu.canberra.edu.au/tc/site.php?id=24
Nov 3-4	South Australia	UniSA	Day 1 at Bradley Forum (H5-02), Day 2 at Council Room (H5-26) Hawke Building, North Terrace, Adelaide 5000	map: http://unisa.edu.au/about/campuses/cw.asp building map:http://www.unisa.edu.au/facilities/capital/buildingrecords/cwe_pdfs/A720PL05.pdf
Oct 27-28	Perth	Curtin Univ	Day 1 at Building 211.222 Day 2 at Building 312.222 Kent Street, Bentley, Western Australia 6102	http://about.curtin.edu.au/campusinfo/locations.cfm#ben http://www.properties.curtin.edu.au/your_campus/maps/ parking near Building 211
Oct 20-21	QLD	UQ	Kathleen Room, 41 Staff House Road St Lucia, Brisbane, 4067	http://www.uq.edu.au/maps/index.html?foo=1&menu=1&id=&z=, Green zone parking cost $3 per day, check http://www.uq.edu.au/parking/index.html?page=29430
Nov 13-14	Melbourne	Monash	Science S2 Lecture Room, Building 25, Clayton Campus, Wellington Road, Clayton, 3800	Note: entry through alternative entrance (south side) http://fsd.monash.edu.au/files/2008-Parking%20Map-FA%20clayton.pdf restricted parking at N1/SE3, $5.50 per day or free parking at Wellington Rd
Oct 13-14	Sydney	MQ Univ	Whiteley room Level 3, SAM Building (C10A) Balaclava Road, North Ryde, 2109	http://www.bgo.mq.edu.au/maps_campus.htm restricted parking at N3 (near Culloden Rd), X3 (south X5A), cost $15 per day
Feb 16-17 '09	Sydney	MQ Univ	Whiteley room Level 3, SAM Building (C10A) Balaclava Road, North Ryde, 2109	http://www.bgo.mq.edu.au/maps_campus.htm restricted parking at N3 (near Culloden Rd), X3 (south X5A), cost $15 per day (alternatively, special $5 voucher can be purchased if you let us know in advanced)

Lunch and coffee/tea etc being catered for.

Requirements

Day 1 participants need not bring anything for the workshop.

Day 2 participants are required to bring laptop of their own with the following capability:

• Wireless network with 802.11G
• No wired ethernet will be available
• ssh client (putty or other ssh clients installed)
• web browser

Accommodation

If you need accommodation, then you will need to arrange this on your own. Please contact Bruc for some suggestions.

How to participate

Limited spaces available, register early. Please indicate which day(s) you're interested in attending and if you are attending on 2nd day, please indicate the session(s). Send email to Bruc Liong at bliong@melcoe.mq.edu.au.

Slides

Previous workshops' slides are available below for your reference.

• Day 1 slides: AAF Shibboleth Rollout Workshop 2008.1.pdf
• Day 2 slides: AAF Shibboleth Rollout Workshop 2008.2.pdf

• A copy of Debian vmware image with all software configured (you need to change the DNS/IP, certificates, and some settings) is available. Only use this vmware if you'd like to deploy it on your own time (we used modified copy of this for the workshop).

• MAMS Brochure: http://www.federation.org.au/brochures/MAMS%20Brochure.pdf
• ShARPE/Autograph Brochure: http://www.federation.org.au/brochures/SharpeAutograph_Brochure.pdf
• Federation Brochure: http://www.federation.org.au/brochures/Federation%20Brochure.pdf
• Tools Brochure: http://www.federation.org.au/brochures/Tools%20Brochure.pdf
• Services Brochure: http://www.federation.org.au/brochures/Services%20Brochure.pdf
• IAMSuite Brochure: http://www.federation.org.au/brochures/IAMSuite_Brochure.pdf

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