Students who can benefit from this course are system integrators, professional services consultants, enterprise application developers, and other technical personnel. The course is designed for those who must deploy OpenSSO Enterprise in an existing infrastructure and adapt the product's appearance and functionality to suit the specific enterprise requirements.

• Execute commands, navigate and manage files and directories, and edit files using the Solaris Operating System command line

• Define the role of OpenSSO in the enterprise computing environment, and list the features and functions of OpenSSO that address key business challenges
• Download the OpenSSO source code and track OpenSSO issues
• Deploy a multi-instance configuration with session failover
• Install and configure Policy Agent 3.0 software
• Configure OpenSSO using the console and the command line
• Activate and configure audit logging and debugging features in OpenSSO
• Configure OpenSSO realms and data stores
• Configure and customize authentication and single sign-on
• Configure authorization
• Customize an OpenSSO instance
• Remove OpenSSO components from a system
• Deploy a federated identity configuration, including a fedlet

Module 1 - Introducing OpenSSO Enterprise

• Describe OpenSSO features at a high level

Module 2 - Working With the OpenSSO Project

• Log in to, start zones on, and navigate around the Solaris Sandbox
• Deploy OpenSSO in a simple environment
• Browse the OpenSSO source tree (optional)
• Download the OpenSSO source code (optional)
• Generate reports using the OpenSSO issue tracker (optional)
• Configure NetBeans IDE and GlassFish for debugging the OpenSSO source code (optional)
• Run a NetBeans IDE debugging session on the OpenSSO web application (optional)

Module 3 - Preparing an Environment for a Complex OpenSSO Deployment

• Install and configure two GlassFish instances for use as OpenSSO web containers
• Secure the GlassFish instances
• Install, secure, and configure a software-based load balancer
• Install a user directory

Module 4 - Deploying a Multi-Instance OpenSSO Site With Session Failover

• Deploy a multi-instance OpenSSO site
• Set up the OpenSSO command-line tools
• Configure session failover for an OpenSSO site
• Verify that OpenSSO sessions fail over

Module 5 - Protecting Sites With Policy Agent 3.0

• Deploy a Web Server instance that hosts a web site
• Prepare the environment for the Web Policy Agent installation
• Install and test the Web Policy Agent
• Deploy a GlassFish application server instance
• Prepare the environment for the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) Policy Agent installation
• Install and test the J2EE Policy Agent

Module 6 - Configuring OpenSSO

• Back up the configuration data store using the CLI
• Modify an agent profile using the console and the CLI

Module 7 - Enabling and Configuring Logging and Debugging

• Review OpenSSO log files
• Log to a relational database
• Modify the debugging level using the console and the CLI

Module 8 - Configuring OpenSSO Realms

• Create the company-wide realm
• Create realms for national offices and departments

Module 9 - Configuring Authentication

• Configure data store authentication
• Configure an authentication chain with multiple authentication module instances
• Configure account lockout for a realm
• Use the OpenSSO sample login program to programmatically authenticate to OpenSSO
• Repair console authentication using the CLI

Module 10 - Configuring Policy

• Configure a different default login URL in the Policy Agent
• Create policies for the Example Chocolates web site
• Create a policy that uses realm authentication
• Delegate administration to users

Module 11 - Customizing an OpenSSO Instance

• Customize an OpenSSO instance
• Customize the authentication interface for a realm (optional)
• Localize the authentication interface for a realm (optional)

Module 12 - Removing OpenSSO Components From a System

• Uninstall an OpenSSO instance

Module 13 - Analyzing Federated Identity Scenarios

• Analyze business problems addressed by federated identity and describe technologies that provide solutions

Module 14 - Configuring SAML 2 Circles of Trust

• Prepare to federate two OpenSSO instances
• Configure identity providers, service providers, and circles of trust
• Verify that federation works

Module 15 - Deploying Fedlets

• Configure and deploy the fedlet
• Register the fedlet in an OpenSSO circle of trust
• Import the identity provider's definition into the fedlet's configuration
• Verify that the fedlet works