ForgeRock Directory Services Core Concepts

The ForgeRock® Directory Services Core Concepts course is for students who want to learn how to implement ForgeRock® Directory Services (DS) in a ForgeRock Identity Platform™ (Platform)...

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Course Code DS-400

Duration 5 days

Available Formats Classroom, Virtual

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The ForgeRock® Directory Services Core Concepts course is for students who want to learn how 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. Using lab exercises in this course, students gain hands-on experience with the important features and capabilities of DS, which they can use to deploy DS on the job.

Note that Revision A.2 of this course is built on version 6.5.1 of DS.

Skills Gained

Upon completion of this course, you should be able 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

Who Can Benefit

The following are the target audiences for this course:

System Integrators
System Consultants
System Architects
System Administrators
Web Developers

Prerequisites

The following are the prerequisites to successfully completing this course:

Basic knowledge and skills using the Linux operating system to complete labs
Basic knowledge of LDAP, JSON, REST, Java

Course Details

Course Contents

Chapter 1: Introducing ForgeRock Directory Services (DS)

Lesson 1: Understanding how DS is used in the Platform

Describe how the Platform uses DS
Describe deployment options

Lesson 2: Installing DS

Describe request processing
Understand where data is stored
Understand the installation process

Lesson 3: Managing data stores

Manage the configuration
Manage data stores
Manage entries

Lesson 4: Protecting entries

Understand how access control is applied
Display privileges

Lesson 5: Locating default log files

Describe log publishers
Describe default log files

Lesson 6: Understanding DS monitoring capabilities

Describe DS monitoring
Describe HTTP monitoring
Describe LDAP monitoring
Describe SMTP monitoring
Describe JMX monitoring
Monitor health status

Chapter 2: Maintaining DS in an AM Deployment

Lesson 1: 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

Lesson 2: Preparing DS as an external CTS token store for AM

Describe CTS deployment options
Configure DS as an external CTS token store for AM

Lesson 3: Performing essential administration tasks

Back up and restore an AM data store
Configure a highly available CTS
Enable secure communication between AM and DS

Lesson 4: Monitoring and tuning DS in an AM deployment

Monitor replication and disk space
Reduce replication traffic
Tune LDAP connection pools and AM caches

Lesson 5: Troubleshooting DS in an AM deployment

Enable platform transaction ID propagation
Configure log filtering

Chapter 3: Deploying DS as a User Store

Lesson 1: Populating backends

Populate a backend

Lesson 2: Managing custom attributes

Add custom schema
Configure virtual attributes

Lesson 3: Delegating administration

Assign administrators to groups
Assign access control to subscriber entries
Grant privileges to administrators

Lesson 4: Managing authentication policies

Configure authentication policies

Lesson 5: Using REST to manage entries

Describe REST
Configure the embedded REST API
Configure the REST to LDAP gateway
Perform RESTful operations

Lesson 6: Implementing high availability and scalability through replication

Deploy a replication topology
Manage a replication topology
Replace self-signed replication certificates

Lesson 7: Monitoring and tuning a user store

Configure SNMP monitoring
Monitor indexes
Measure throughput and response times
Understand areas that affect performance

Lesson 8: Troubleshooting replication

Identify replication issues
Backup and restore a replicated topology

Lesson 9: Planning for a migration from Oracle DSEE to DS

Prepare for a migration from Oracle DSEE to DS

Chapter 4: Maintaining DS in an IDM Deployment

Lesson 1: Using DS as an IDM repository

Explore the default DS repository in IDM
Configure DS as an external IDM repository

Lesson 2: Provisioning subscribers to DS

Describe how IDM synchronizes data
Provision subscribers to DS

Lesson 3: Synchronizing passwords between DS and IDM

Enable mutual authentication
Install DS password synchronization plugin

Lesson 4: Monitoring and troubleshooting DS in an IDM deployment

Monitor DS and IDM logs
Troubleshoot password synchronization

Chapter 5: Creating a Distributed Topology

Lesson 1: Exploring DS scalability options

Describe scaling options
Protect user privacy

Lesson 2: Configuring a distributed topology

Configure regional data stores
Upgrade a distributed topology

Lesson 3: Monitoring and tuning a distributed topology

Monitor a distributed topology
Tune DS for multiple backends

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Course Contents

Chapter 1: Introducing ForgeRock Directory Services (DS)

Chapter 2: Maintaining DS in an AM Deployment

Chapter 3: Deploying DS as a User Store

Chapter 4: Maintaining DS in an IDM Deployment

Chapter 5: Creating a Distributed Topology

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