AAF Shibboleth Rollout 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 AAF 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 AAF 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 AAF 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: AAF 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 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
|---|
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.
- 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).
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