The UK Federation Helpdesk
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Delivered at the McShib event, 6 March 2012, Edinburgh
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The UK Federation Helpdesk
- 1. McShib 6th March 2012 Edinburgh
- 2. UK federation today 890 members, 1330 entities and growing The largest education and research Access Management Federation in the world Membership and entity registration is free to HE & FE and to service providers Funded by JISC
- 3. Who are we? Kelley Campbell Steve Glover Gary Gray Sara Hopkins Alex Stuart
- 4. What do we do? Metadata update requests New entity registrations Installation and configuration support Metadata signing and publishing Shibboleth support Hosting of web servers with metadata and Discovery Service
- 5. Common questions How to configure the IdP to release specific attributes. A user reports a problem logging into a resource. The helpdesk then follows this up with the SP and IdP to solve the problem. Renewal of embedded trust-fabric certificates in the metadata. IdP and SP software updates.
- 6. Hints and tips Read the documentation first (shibboleth.net and ukfederation.org.uk) Follow the recommendations Plan your deployment Ensure you sync the system clock If you need clarification – ask us Use the test SP to check your attribute release
- 7. Hints and tips continued… Ensure good communication with the librarians Monitor the software regularly Keep the software up-to-date
- 8. A resource for you Email us at service@ukfederation.org.uk •Not just metadata updates •Technical support, general queries •Emails to that address go straight to the helpdesk Documentation at www.ukfederation.org.uk •Helps you register and update your entities •Please let us know about errors or omissions or if there’s some content you would like to see there
- 9. What we’re working on Getting ready for Shibboleth 3 IdP and SP Supporting RAPTOR Technical issues specific to schools sector Inter-federation with other education federations On-line tools for federation members Increasing membership and registrations
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- We sit in EDINA which is a JISC data centre in the University of Edinburgh 10 minutes walk from here.
- Anything from new endpoints, certificates, MDUI information or contact details to the metadata updates associated with a major version upgrade of SP or IdP software. We’re growing – it works out at almost 1 new entity registered every day. We know that installing and setting up Shibboleth IdP’s and SP’s is not trivial. We offer support in this and stick with it until it’s all working. We sign and publish the updated federation metadata every day There is of course other SAML-compliant software out there but our expertise is in Shibboleth. We also have access to some of the Shibboleth developers for those really tricky problems. We also host the servers hosting the metadata and the DS (WAYF)
- Entitlement A common source of a helpdesk query is a user reporting that they cannot access a resource. We then use our experience and do some digging and work out where the problem lies I’m sure you’re all familiar with certificate updates for IdP’s and SP’s. We do a few of them every week. Thanks for responding to our emails and working with us to make certificate renewal as painless as possible. It is important to apply those security updates when they come out and there are still some Shibb 1.3 IdP’s out there. We’re happy to work through the update with you.