Sun Java System Access Manager Config and Customization (Self-Study Course)
Prerequisites
- Install the Sun Java Enterprise System
- Proficiency with XML and interpret Document Type Definition (DTD) files
- Proficiency with the Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS)
Course Objectives
- Define the role of the Access Manager and list the features and functions of the Access Manager that address key business challenges
- Configure the Access Manager and Policy Agents
- Configure and customize authentication and single sign-on (SSO)
- Configure, administer, personalize, and customize authorization
- Describe the Security Assertions Markup Language (SAML) and federated identity, and their implementation in Access Manager
- Implement advanced deployment scenarios, including cross-domain single sign-on (CDSSO) and high availability
Product Description
- Sun Java System Access Manager
- Describe identity management
- Describe network identity implementation
- Describe the Sun Java System identity management framework
- Identify Access Manager components
- Describe Policy Agent software
- Examine a case study
- Configuring and Deploying the Access Manager
- Identify deployment components
- List basic deployment scenarios
- Start and stop Access Manager and Policy Agent instances
- Describe Access Manager configuration
- Configure Policy Agent instances
- Configure secure sockets layer (SSL) with the Access Manager
- Access Manager Realms
- Describe the types of data the Access Manager uses
- Describe Access Manager realms
- Describe realm and legacy modes
- Describe identity repository types
- Configure identity repositories
- Describe Access Manager management tools
- Create and configure realms
- Delegate administration
- Service Configuration
- Describe Access Manager services
- Configure Access Manager services using the console
- Configure Access Manager services using the command-line interface (CLI)
- Describe service configuration for new realms
- Logging and Debugging
- Describe the Access Manager Logging Service
- Describe debug files
- Describe Policy Agent logging
- Authentication and Single Sign-On
- Describe Access Manager authentication
- Describe the Access Manager authentication architecture
- Describe the mechanism for non-programmatic and programmatic authentication
- Configure Access Manager authentication
- Describe the authentication process
- Describe Access Manager sessions
- Describe SSO
- Constrain user sessions
- Customizing Authentication
- Describe the Access Manager authentication interface and its architecture
- Configure a customized authentication interface
- Describe authentication interface JSP templates
- Customize an authentication interface
- Policy Configuration
- Describe policy
- Describe the policy architecture
- Describe policy components
- Describe policy storage
- Administer policy
- Configure policies using the console
- Policy Evaluation
- Describe policy evaluation principles
- Examine a policy evaluation example
- Describe policy interoperability
- Security Assertion Markup Language
- Describe SAML
- Describe SSO system flow using SAML
- Configure SAML support on the Access Manager
- Federated Identity
- Describe the Liberty Alliance project
- Describe the Liberty specification
- Identify Liberty web services
- Describe the identity federation process and user experience
- Describe Liberty process flow
- Advanced Deployment
- Describe cross-domain single sign-on (CDSSO)
- Describe and configure distributed authentication
- Run Access Manager from a user account other than the root account
- Describe and configure high availability
- Describe and configure persistent searches
- Describe and configure session caching options