This course provides the knowledge you’ll need to install and administer each component of the PingDirectory platform: PingDirectory, PingDirectoryProxy Server, and PingDataSync Server. The class topics include:

• Installation
• Monitoring best practices and basics
• Maintenance
• Administration
• Performance
• Configuration
• Management
• Sync Pipe Configuration
• Replication
• Troubleshooting

This course consists of lectures and hands-on lab exercises. Each student is required to provide their own laptop that has an SSH client and configuration allowing connections to WiFi and access to external servers. 

Duration

3 days

Course Contents

Day 1: Background, Overview & Installation of PingDirectory

• Overview & Installation
  • Lab 1: Installing PingDirectory and basic connections
• Review schema concepts including objects classes and attributes
  • Lab 2: Managing Schema
• Managing Objects
  • Lab 3: Creating user accounts
• Security & Encryption
  • Lab 4: Encryption
• Virtual Attributes
  • Lab 5: Virtual Attributes
• Password Policies
  • Lab 6: Password Policies
• JSON Attributes
  • Lab 7: JSON Attributes
• REST APIs
  • Lab 8: REST/SCIM APIs

Day 2: Logging, Replication, Topologies, and PingDirectoryProxy

• Logging
  • Lab 9: Logging
• Replication
  • Lab 10: Replication
• Server Topologies
  • Lab 11: Server topology
• PingDirectoryProxy Server Overview & Installation
  • Lab 12: Installing PingDirectoryProxy Server
• Data Proxy Advanced Features
  • Lab 13: Substitutions and transformations
• Integrating PingDirectory in an existing PingFederate/Access deployment

Day 3: PingDataSync, SDK, and Support Activities

• DataSync Overview & Installation
  • Lab 14: Installing Data Sync
• DataSync Configuration & Connection of Sync Pipe to External Directory
  • Lab 15: Creating a bi-directional sync pipe between two PingDirectories
• DataSync Relational Database
  • Lab 16: DataSync Active Directory
• SDK Overview
• Maintenance Tasks
  • Lab 17: Backup and restore
• Monitoring & Logging
• Troubleshooting
  • Lab 18: Conflict resolution
• Lab 19: Troubleshooting scenarios