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ForgeRock - Directory Services

( Duration: 5 Days )

This ForgeRock Directory Services training course provides knowledge to implement ForgeRock Directory Services (DS) in a ForgeRock Identity Platform (Platform) deployment and as a standalone service. Current platform best practices are used to deploy and maintain DS.

By attending ForgeRock Directory Services workshop, delegates will learn to:

  • Understand how DS is used in a Platform deployment
  • Install DS as a standalone service or as an external data store for the Platform
  • Use setup profiles to configure DS during installation
  • Manage backend data stores
  • Monitor and tune DS for different deployment types using HTTP and LDAP
  • Implement access control and privileges
  • Configure delegated administration
  • Back up and restore backends
  • Import and export data
  • Manage custom attributes
  • Manage log publishers
  • Replace self-signed replication certificates
  • Plan for a migration from Oracle Directory Server Enterprise Edition to DS
  • Manage entries using the CLI and REST
  • Implement high availability using replication
  • Monitor health status
  • Monitor and troubleshoot replication
  • Manage DS in a ForgeRock Identity Management (IDM) deployment
  • Manage DS in a ForgeRock Access Management (AM) deployment
  • Deploy a distributed topology
  • Configure data confidentiality
  • Install and configure directory proxy servers
  • Configure Prometheus and Grafana to monitor DS instances

  • Basic knowledge and skills using the Linux operating system
  • Basic knowledge of LDAP, JSON, REST, Java

The ForgeRock Directory Services class is ideal for:

  • System Integrators
  • System Consultants
  • System Architects
  • System Developers
  • System Administrators

COURSE AGENDA

1

Introducing ForgeRock Directory Services (DS)

  • Understanding how DS is used in the Platform
    • Describe how the platform uses DS
    • Describe deployment options
  • Installing DS
    • Describe request processing
    • Understand where data is stored
    • Understand the installation process
  • Managing data stores
    • Manage the configuration
    • Manage data stores
    • Manage Entries
  • Protecting entries
    • Understand how access control is applied
    • Display privileges
  • Locating default log files
    • Describe log publishers
    • Describe default log files
  • Understanding DS monitoring capabilities
    • Describe DS monitoring
    • Describe HTTP monitoring
    • Describe LDAP monitoring
    • Describe SMTP monitoring
    • Describe JMX monitoring
    • Monitor health status
2

Maintaining DS in an AM Deployment

  • Preparing DS as an external configuration and identity store for AM
    • Describe how DS is used in a default AM Deployment
    • Configure DS instances as external configuration and identity stores for AM
  • Preparing DS as an external CTS token store for AM
    • Describe CTS deployment options
    • Configure DS as an external CTS token store for AM
  • Performing essential administration tasks
    • Backup and restore an AM data store
    • Configure a highly available CTS
    • Enable secure communication between AM and DS
  • Monitoring and tuning DS in an AM deployment
    • Monitor replication and disk space
    • Reduce replication traffic
    • Tune LDAP connection pools and AM caches
  • Troubleshooting DS in an AM deployment
    • Enable platform transaction ID propagation
    • Configure log filtering
3

Deploying DS as a User Store

  • Populating backends
    • Populate a backend
  • Managing custom attributes
    • Add custom schema
    • Configure virtual attributes
  • Delegating administration
    • Assign administrators to groups
    • Assign access control to subscriber entries
    • Grant privileges to administrators
  • Managing authentication policies
    • Configure authentication policies
  • Using REST to manage entries
    • Describe REST
    • Configure embedded REST API
    • Configure REST to LDAP gateway
    • Perform RESTful operations
  • Implementing high availability and scalability through replication
    • Deploy a replication topology
    • Manage a replication topology
    • Replace self-signed replication certificates
  • Monitoring and tuning a user store
    • Configure SNMP monitoring
    • Monitor indexes
    • Measure throughput and response times
    • Understand areas that affect performance
  • Troubleshooting replication
    • Identify replication issues
    • Backup and restore a replicated topology
  • Planning for a migration from Oracle DSEE to DS
    • Prepare for a migration from Oracle DSEE to DS
4

Maintaining DS in a ForgeRock Identity Management Deployment (IDM)

  • Using DS as an IDM repository
    • Explore the default DS repository in IDM
    • Configure DS as an external IDM repository
  • Provisioning subscribers to DS
    • Describe how IDM synchronizes data
    • Provision subscribers to DS
  • Synchronizing passwords between DS and IDM
    • Enable mutual authentication
    • Install DS password synchronization plugin
  • Monitoring and troubleshooting DS in an IDM deployment
    • Monitor DS and IDM logs
    • Troubleshoot password synchronization
5

Creating a Distributed Topology

  • Exploring DS scalability options
    • Describe scaling options
    • Protect user privacy
  • Configuring a distributed topology
    • Configure regional data stores
    • Upgrade a distributed topology
  • Monitoring and tuning a distributed topology
    • Monitor a distributed topology
    • Tune DS for multiple backends

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