This course deepens your PingDirectory platform knowledge by diving into advanced concepts and exploring specific topics to expand your administrator capabilities.

This course consists of lectures and hands-on lab exercises which reference real-world scenarios driven by recurring use cases. 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.

Target Audiences

The target audiences for this course include:

• IT professionals responsible for advanced PingDirectory configuration and troubleshooting
• Those who have completed the PingDirectory Administration course or achieved the Certified Professional – PingDirectory certification
• Those considering taking the Certified Expert – PingDirectory exam

Prerequisites

The following are the prerequisites for successfully completing this course:

• Completion of the PingDirectory Administration course, or
• Equivalent experience with PingDirectory

Duration

4 days

Course Contents

Day 1:

• Overview: Course structure and general housekeeping
• Advanced configuration:
• Dsconfig options
• Lab 1: Configure PingDirectory to run on server setup
• Lab 2: Using soft deletes
• Lab 3: Creating custom data
• Lab 4: Creating client connection policies
• PingDirectory and the JVM Heap
• Lab 5: Alarms, Alerts, and Gauges
• Lab 6: Managing certificates

Day 2:

• Lab 7: The consent API
• Lab 8: Advanced schema and entry management
• Lab 9: Advanced logging
• Lab 10: Working with ACIs
• Lab 11: Working with indexes

Day 3:

• Lab 12: Revert an upgrade
• The topology registry
• Lab 13: Manage the topology and replication
• Remove a defunct server from the topology
• Manually initialize a server
• Lab 14: Advanced PingDirectoryProxy Server
• Entry balancing
• Global indexes
• Groups and entry balancing
• Replication and entry balancing
• Entry balancing monitoring
• Dynamic rebalancing

Day 4:

• Lab 15: PingDataSync and PingOne
• View the PingOne configuration
• Use PingOne as a sync destination
• Set up pass-through authentication to PingOne