This course is designed to provide students with the knowledge and concepts necessary to install, configure, and maintain a PingDS (DS), formerly known as ForgeRock® Directory Services, deployment.

Note: Revision A of this course is based on version 8.0.0 of DS.

Target Audiences

The target audiences for this course include:

• Technical users deploying and managing PingDS:
  • Evaluators
  • Integrators
  • Consultants
  • Administrators

Objectives

Upon completion of this course, you should be able to:

• Understand how to deploy directory servers, and directory proxy servers, manage replication, upgrade DS servers, and configure the DS password synchronization plugin
• Measure performance, tune, and troubleshoot DS
• Use the HTTP Directory Access Protocol (HDAP) APIs for REST-based HTTP(S) access to directory services

Prerequisites

The following are the prerequisites for successfully completing this course:

• Knowledge of Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP).
• An understanding of how directory servers function.
• An understanding of REST and HTTP.
• Knowledge of UNIX/Linux commands.
• A basic knowledge of Java based environments would be beneficial, but no programming experience is required.
• Completion of the PDS-100: Introduction to PingDS and PDS-330: Getting Started with PingDS on-demand courses.

Duration

3 days

Course Contents

Chapter 1: Deploying Directory Services

Understand how to deploy directory servers, and directory proxy servers, manage replication, upgrade DS servers, and configure the DS password synchronization plugin.

Lesson 1: Installing Directory Servers

Install directory servers for custom and Ping Identity Platform (Identity Platform) product deployments:

• Prepare for a directory server installation
• Access your lab environment
• Prepare the lab environment
• Install a directory server
• Prepare directory servers for Identity Platform installations
• Set up directory servers for AM
• Set up a directory server as an IDM repository
• Synchronize passwords with IDM
• Configure password synchronization

Lesson 2: Replicating Data

Implement high availability for directory servers and maintain, monitor, and restore a replicated directory server topology:

• Plan for replication
• Install a replicated topology
• Manage a replicated topology
• Monitor and maintain replication

Lesson 3: Upgrading DS Servers

Prepare for and perform an upgrade of directory servers in a DS 7 replicated topology to DS 8:

• Describe upgrade options
• Upgrade DS 7 servers to DS 8

Lesson 4: Installing DS Directory Proxy

Understand the role of DS directory proxy and install DS directory proxy to provide a single point of entry to directory servers:

• Introduce DS directory proxy
• Install DS directory proxy
• Provide a single point of access to replicas

Chapter 2: Tuning and Troubleshooting DS

Measure performance, tune, and troubleshoot DS.

Lesson 1: Measuring Performance

Understand performance requirements and settings that may be tuned to improve directory server performance:

• Explain settings that affect performance
• Prepare the lab environment
• Tune the JE DB cache and generate performance tests

Lesson 2: Troubleshooting

Configure log files, collect troubleshooting data for Support, and monitor a DS deployment with Prometheus and Grafana:

• Explain how to collect data for support
• Collect data for support
• Explore log files
• Manage log files
• Monitor a DS deployment
• Observe monitoring metrics

Chapter 3: Accessing PingDS over HTTP(S)

Use the HTTP Directory Access Protocol (HDAP) APIs for REST-based HTTP(S) access to directory services.

Lesson 1: Introducing HDAP

Access directory servers and perform operations over HTTP(S):

• Describe REST-based HTTP access
• Prepare the lab environment
• Examine HTTP and HDAP configuration properties
• Verify HDAP authentication
• Explain HDAP operations
• Manage resources with HDAP

Lesson 2: Using Account Management Actions

Manage passwords and display account usability information and resource schema:

• Manage passwords
• Update passwords
• View JSON Schema
• Get JSON schema