Australian Access Federation Workshop 18-19 Feb 2008 Sydney
This free workshop covers Federation (Shibboleth) technical deployment. Please
register early to secure your place.
Second day involves discussion of some AAF Minigrant topics to get better ideas of the problems and possible solutions.
Invites
available here
PDF of Slides
Agenda
Note: Items marked with * indicates hands-on session
Day 1 (18 Feb 2008)
Day 2 (19 Feb 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
Whiteley room, Level 3, SAM Building (C10A),
Macquarie University, Balaclava Road, North Ryde,
New South Wales, 2109
Campus Map
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:
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.
Network Access
Wireless login:
AAF
Password:
w0rksh0p (all o is changed to zero)
Login to your vmware:
username:
root
password:
m4m5t35t
Note: there won't be external internet access during the workshop.
Hardware:
- Delegate needs to bring your own laptop (or share with others)
- Wireless network with 802.11G.
- No wired Ethernet will be provided.
- minimum of 512MB of memory
- minimum of 2GB of free space
Software:
- vmware server (http://www.vmware.com/products/server/) needs to be installed on your laptop if you'd like to have the image installed on your laptop
- SSH Client (i.e. putty) + X windows (on windows you can install cygwin + X)
- Web browser
Misc
- join http://www.federation.org.au/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/testbed-dev mailing list for follow up discussion on workshop and helping out in deploying shibboleth in your institution
- questions and issues on ShARPE and Autograph can be redirected at http://www.federation.org.au/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sharpe-users mailing list
- general federation questions, feel free to direct them to support AT federation DOT org DOT au
Note
- you may redeploy vmware in your laptop to external public machine and join Level-1 Federation. Migration instruction will be provided.
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