Administration tools for Shibboleth?

Erdos, Marlena marlena_erdos at harvard.edu
Thu Mar 7 18:25:29 EST 2013


Hi Scott,

>>Are you using a tool to administer your IdP? If so, my colleagues and I
>>would love to hear about it.
>
>Does vi count?

:-)


>
>There's a Gluu product periodically advertised that purports to put a GUI
>around the IdP. Since I find the concept abhorrent, I haven't looked at
>it.

What's abhorrent about it?  (And is it a general distaste for admin tools,
or specific to the IdP?)

My take is that there are good admin tools and bad ones.  (We don't want
to use a bad one :-).)



>
>>Have you automated bringing up new SP-fronted applications?  That's
>>something else we dearly would like to know about.
>
>There are a few universities that have developed some tools like that. I
>think the most complete one seemed to be at Duke, and I think they mean to
>make it available at some point.

I'm in touch with Duke off and on -- and it seems to be back on as of next
week (after being off for a while). (Yay!)  I'm hoping to talk to them
about admin tools.   I'll report back if that's OK'd by them.


>I use a script around the metagen.sh script that's in the SP distribution
>that frankly makes adding an SP take about 5 minutes plus the time to call
>for a cerificate verification. I just haven't had much motivation to go
>farther.

Could you send me the script?

Thanks!
Marlena



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