At a glance
Course description
NOTE: This is a live, instructor-led online course. Do not make arrangements to travel. See the Remarks section for the equipment required to participate in the lectures and hands-on labs. After you are confirmed in the class you will receive further instructions to access audio, video and remote labs. Instructor-led Online US courses start at 9:00 am Central time unless specified otherwise. Please enroll at least five business days prior to class start date to ensure course materials can be shipped in time.
IBM Tivoli Access Manager (TAM) for e-business 6.1 secures business-critical information and resources with a centralized, flexible, and scalable access control solution.Through a combination of lecture and hands-on lab exercises, learn the skills necessary to install and configure TAM components, secure a Web infrastructure using WebSEAL, use common auditing to centralize reports, learn Web applications, create security policies, and manage user sessions.
Objectives
After completing this course, students will be able to:
- Explain the purpose, components and architecture of Tivoli Access Manager.
- Install and configure the Tivoli Access Manager policy server, Web portal manager, and WebSEAL.
- Integrate the common auditing and reporting service (CARS) for e-business reporting.
- Install and configure the session management server (SMS) to manage user sessions.
- Create users, groups, access control lists, and protected object policies to manage the authentication and authorization of users.
- Integrate Tivoli Access Manager into a Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) application framework.
- Customize external authentication interface (EAI) to supply custom authenticated identity information to WebSEAL
Course outline
- Introduction and Overview
- Installation and Configuration
- Tivoli Access Manager and the User Registry
- Managing Access Control
- Introduction to WebSEAL
- WebSEAL Installation and Configuration
- WebSEAL Authentication
- WebSEAL Junctions
- Single Sign-on
- Session Management Server
- Logging and Auditing
- Common Auditing and Reporting Services
- Java Authorization Contract for Containers and Java 2 Enterprise Edition
Who will benefit from this course
This intermediate course is for system administrators, security architects, application programmers, and identity developers who are responsible for maintaining large numbers of users, groups, and access to specific information resources.
Required skills/knowledge
The following list contains the prerequisite knowledge or Tivoli product knowledge an attendee must have prior to attending the course:
- Basic operating-system administrative skills for Linux and Windows
- Basic knowledge of Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)
- TCP/IP fundamentals
- Firewall concepts
- Working knowledge of Web protocols (HTTP, XML)
- Basic knowledge of IBM WebSphere Application Server
- Complete course Tivoli Foundation Skills LDAP Fundamentals
To participate in both the lectures and labs for this course, student workstation must meet the following hardware requirements:
- Minimum of 256 MB of memory
- Windows 2000 or XP
- Internet Explorer 5.5 or higher.
- 128-bit encryption
- Versions of Internet Explorer prior to version 6.0 and Windows 2000 must have the High Encryption Packs installed
- Minimum 30Kbps dedicated Internet bandwidth
