Update Finland TF-EMC Mikael Linden CSC, the Finnish IT Center for Science
Finnish higher education overview 20 universities, 29 polytechnics (=universities of applied sciences) Small units spread all over the country degree students, employees CSC, the Finnish IT Center for Science Non-profit company owned by the ministry of education 140 employees to provide centralised IT services to higher education and research Scentific applications, supercomputing Funet – the Finnish national research network (NREN) Haka identity federation
Status of Haka federation Pilot federation operational 12/2003 Production level federation operational 8/2005 running Shibboleth (mostly, ver 1.3) Current members: 11/20 universities, 8/29 polytechnic coverage: 60% of edupersons (in universities: 80% of edupersons) Current partners: 2 Several universities have Shibboleth in intra-organisational use Haka is only for higher education and research institutions 3 persons FTE at CSC
11 Identity Providers (IdP) 11 Service Providers (SP) 11 IdPs University of Helsinki Jyväskylä Polytechnic University of Kuopio University of Oulu Lappeenranta University of Technology Pirkanmaa Polytechnic University of Tampere Tampere University of Technology (TUT) Helsinki University of Technology (HUT) University of Turku Åbo Academi (No home for the homeless!) end users 5 library services Nelli portal (Ex Libris: Metalib) HUT Library database (Endeavor: Voyager) Univ of Helsinki Library database (Voyager) Univ of Oulu Library database (Voyager) Univ of Lappeenranta Library db(Voyager) 3 learning management systems Moodle /TUT A&O/TUT Optima/Oulu CSC’s own services Scientist’s Interface Funet extranet Student administration JOOPAS logins in September
Hot topic: Getting ASP services shibbolized ASP = Application Service Provisioning universities are outsourcing administrational services software run by commercial companies at the moment, each outsourced service means an extra username/passwd 1.Competence management sw: Personec hr Shibbolized and used in production in one university since 2/ HR Registry sw: Personec f/ESS (Employee self-service) 3.Travel administration sw: Personec Travel 4.Circulation of incoming invoices: WM-data Rondo
Recent areas of development AAIEye: monitoring, reporting and configuration management of a federation (part of GN2/JRA5) how to make sure that all the IdPs and SPs are up and running demonstrated a cross-federation login with FEIDE and DK-AAI in Nordunet conference in September IdP In Denmark and Norway, SP in Finland funetEduPerson 2.0 released 5/2006 Adopts schac and eduPerson New national attributes more specific interpretation of vocabularies the WAYF moved to a commercial 24x7 machine room Running the SWITCHaai’s php implementation trying to find companies that provide ’Shibboleth as a service’ Shib IdP hosting, Shibboleth consulting Shib IdP and strong user authentication (PKI/smartcards)
AAIEye: a separate talk in GN2/JRA5 meeting on Friday IdPs monitored SPs monitored ”Traffic lights”