Australian Access Federation Shibboleth Workshop

21-22 April 2008 Canberra

This free workshop covers Federation (Shibboleth) technical deployment. Please register early to secure your place.

Note that the changes on requirements for the workshop as listed on Software/Hardware section. Basically you need wireless capable laptop with simple browser and SSH-client installed.

Invites available here

PDF of Slides

Shibboleth slides

Agenda

Note: Items marked with * indicates hands-on session

Day 1 (21 April 2008)

8:30 Registration/Administration/Tea
9:00 Introduction, opening, AAF overview, setup environment
10:00 How to setup an Identity Provider*
10:30 Break
10:45 IdP Continue*
12:30 Lunch
1:30 How to set up a Service Provider* & How to "shibbolize" an application*
3.30 Break
3:45 Attributes Exchange
- LDAP resolver back-end*
- Attribute Release Policies (ARP) and Attribute Acceptance Policies (AAP)*
5:00 Finish

Day 2 (21 April 2008)

8:30 Registration/Administration/Tea
9:00 Review of the practical sessions & requirements for AAF
10:00 ShARPE/Autograph (including Service Description File, Attribute Mapping, eduPersonTargetedId, etc)*
10:30 Break
10:45 Common Problems/Troubleshooting
- Log file explanation; SAML assertions examination
- Certificates
- Synchronizing time
11:45 Shibbolizing a second application
12:30 Lunch
1:30 Discussions
- technical approaches to tackle minigrant
- Common problems and possible solutions discussion for Minigrants
- Typical scenarios: your institution, AAF, and others
- What services do you want to provide across institution boundaries?
- Applicability of SSO within your institution
- What are the attributes that your application will need?
3:30 Break
3:45 Advanced Topics (raise issues you'd like to discuss, continue discussion above)
5:00 Finish

Location

CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems, Gungahlin Homestead Site,
Bellenden Street, off Barton Highway Crace ACT 2911 Australia

The followings are maps that can help you:
Location overview: WE_ARE_HERE.png
Location overview: CSIRO_CSE_location_map.gif
Taking bus: Busroutes.png and timetable
Route from city: MapFromNorthbourneAveCanberraCity.png and directions_from_barton.pdf
Bike track for traffic avoidance: Suggested_route_avoids_crossing_Barton_Highway_at_bellenden_st.pdf
Google map: http://tinyurl.com/2qfzjf

Accommodation: http://tinyurl.com/34aq6e

Virtual Machine Settings

Throughout the workshop sessions, participants will be divided into groups of 2 or 3. Each group will work on their own virtual machine.

Pre-downloaded software required for the workshop resides in your virtual machine at:

/usr/src

Domain for the workshop vmware will be mams.local, i.e. ws00.mams.local, ws01.mams.local to ws30.mams.local.

Some vmwares are already being preconfigured for the workshop:

ws01.mams.local -- 192.168.123.31
ws02.mams.local -- 192.168.123.32
ws03.mams.local -- 192.168.123.33
ws04.mams.local -- 192.168.123.34
ws05.mams.local -- 192.168.123.35
ws06.mams.local -- 192.168.123.36

If you would like to experience the workshop on your own laptop, you may do so by loading the provided DVD vmware image. Network configuration will be advised to enable your laptop for local network access.