Shibboleth Tutorial Targets John Ball SUNY at Buffalo

Target Deployment  UB Shibboleth deployment  Hardware/OS  Current Deployment  Customizations  Other issues/contingencies

Hardware/OS Apache on Solaris 8/9  Initial deployment in our Administrative web farm  Typically a Sunfire 280R in load balanced model behind a Cisco CSS  Hitachi SAN storage Application Data User session credentials

Customization  Wrote some custom code to use an Oracle DB for the SHAR cache Keeps the state in a HA environment Looking to contribute this to I2 Why oracle?

Content Services Switch Issue  Have not solved the issue of 2 virtualized services communicating (NATed) behind the same CSS  “Implementation detail”

Stability issues  Not been able to run a Shib 1.1 Target under load on Solaris with any stability – yet  Hard to replicate the issue, but we did it!  Looking to Shib 1.2 to solve this issue (code revisions)

Other “fixes”  Contingencies if we can not work out Shar stability on Solaris Targets Move the Shar to another machine?  Probably Linux  Would need to address security since it uses TCP vs Unix sockets Consider Apache on Linux for the Target application servers  Not a realistic solution for the short term with our Sun web farm infrastructure