PingDirectory Administration Training (PD-300)

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

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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
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