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Managing Security in the Sun N1 Service Provisioning System describes how the software supports application security, and teaches students how to configure the security features provided in the software.
Course Length
1 hour
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Languages
English
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Who Can Benefit
Students who can benefit from this course include system administrators, technical support engineers, field service engineers, system supportengineers, professional services engineers, and others who will use the Sun N1 Service Provisioning System.
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Prerequisites
To successfully understand the information presented in this course, students should be able to:
- Understand the purpose and basic use of the N1 Service Provisioning System
- Understand the following concepts in the N1 Service Provisioning System: system architecture, master server, local distributor, remote agent, components, plans, component procedures, and hosts
- Follow the N1 Service Provisioning System installation procedure
- Perform operating system administrative tasks involving setup and management of Secure Shell (SSH) and Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)
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Skills Gained
Upon completion of this course, students should know how to:
- Explain the security capabilities of N1 Service Provisioning System
- Determine what security features they will use for N1 Service Provisioning System
- Define the protocol requirements for an N1 Service Provisioning System installation
- Configure N1 Service Provisioning System to use HTTPS, SSH and SSL as appropriate
- Explain the authentication options and requirements
- Configure N1 Service Provisioning Systemto use external LDAP authentication
- Use groups to enforce global and folder-level permissions
- Use history to retrieve information about hosts, plans, and component installations
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Related Courses
Before:
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Sun N1 Service Provisioning System 5.0 Configuration and Deployment (NPS-470)
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Course Content
Module 1 - Managing Security in the Sun N1 Service Provisioning System
- Define the elements of application security
- Explain how the software supports the elements of security
- Describe how the N1 Service Provisioning System communication works
- Present best practices for selecting and configuring communication protocol
- Configure the software to use HTTPS
- Configure the software to use SSH or SSL
- Explain how the software authenticates users
- Demonstrate authentication in the Web User Interface and Command-Line Interface
- Describe how the software manages external authentication
- Present requirements to use the Java Authentication and AUthorization Service API (JAAS) for external authentication
- Configure external LDAP authentication
- Present the authorization model
- Explain how users and groups relate to authorization
- Define global authorization capabilities
- Demonstrate how to modify global authorization capabilities for an N1 Service Provisioning System group
- Define folder-level authorization capabilities
- Demonstrate how to modify folder-level authorization capabilities for a group
- Explain how the software manages history entries
- Describe what data is maintained
- Demonstrate how to view records of N1 Service Provisioning System use
- Describe how to maintain historical records of use
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