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Welcome to Virtual Grouper training June 2020.

The Grouper Training Environment (GTE) is a set of lesson plans, training exercises, and supporting Docker modules. Students are able to bring up a full training environment by running a simple command. The GTE provides all the necessary components and configuration to go from learning basic Grouper operations, to exploring the access governance concepts presented in the Grouper Deployment Guide (GDG). The focus of the GTE is Grouper installation, configuration, design, and operation. Little to no technical experience is required to complete the Grouper training.

The training environment will be made available to students via Amazon Web Services (AWS). The student will only need a connection to the Internet and a suitable SSH client (e.g. OpenSSH on UNIX/Linux/Mac systems or PuTTY on Windows). IP addresses and credentials will be provided during the class.

Session information

We will be taking short breaks throughout the day and a longer lunch break around 1:00 ET.
To keep things flowing well, please refrain from using the Zoom chat window. Instead, use the dedicated Slack channel for your discussions!
VMs will be opened up several days before the class. They will remain open for two weeks after the class so that you can practice the lab exercises.
Ask ALL of your questions. There are no dumb questions.

Pre-work

Connect to your AWS instance from your computer
Review these commands that you will need (located in the GTE)
If you do not know linux, here is a 5 minute lesson
If you do not know “vi”, here is an 8 minute lesson
Read the Grouper Deployment Guide

Important links

GTE commands - Simple commands to run GTE courses and interact with the environment

Text to copy/paste - Text from slides to copy and paste easily

Grouper Deployment Guide - Grouper concepts, standards, and best practices

GTE app links (once connected and a lesson is started)

Name	Link	Credentials	Description
Jump page	https://localhost:8443/		Links applications
Grouper	https://localhost:8443/grouper/	Admin: banderson/password Civilian: jsmith/password	Grouper UI application
Database manager	https://localhost:8443/phpmyadmin/	root / <no password>	Phpmyadmin Mysql database manager
LDAP manager	https://localhost:8443/phpldapadmin/	username: cn=root,dc=internet2,dc=edu password: password	Phpldapadmin LDAP administration
Messaging manager	https://localhost:8443/rabbitmq/	username: guest password: guest	Rabbitmq messaging administration
Shibboleth attributes	https://localhost:8443/app		Simple screen to show login state

Help

If you have any questions about the workshop or its technical content, please send a note to Erin at emurtha@internet2.edu.

You can also use the dedicated Slack channel for an even faster response.

Course Syllabus