CHANGING CONFIGURATION PARAMETERS § Administrative console and runtime behavior controlled by <pf_install>/pingfederate/bin/run.properties § Restart the server for changes to take effect. § Property
RUNTIME NOTIFICATIONS § Notifications can be set up to send an email warning – when your license is about to expire – certificate expirations § When a certificate expires, PingFederate always writes an error in the server log
PINGFEDERATE ADMINISTRATION ACCOUNTS § Option for multiple administrators with role based access control § Alternate: – LDAP – RADIUS – Client certificates
EXPORTING / IMPORTING CONNECTIONS § When/why? – Moving from a development server to test or production – Adding additional servers to your environment and allocating certain connections to other servers
§ The resulting XML data is a PingFederate-proprietary format
CONFIGCOPY § Automating Configuration Management – Move configuration of one instance of PingFederate to another – Modify configuration between the two environments
CONFIGURATION ARCHIVES § Can export & import entire PingFederate configuration as a compressed .zip archive § Nearly every setting is captured in the archive, except: • Draft connections • License files • File changes outside of PingFederate Administration: › HTML template changes