3: Admin stuff and set up for Gluu Server

Are we there yet?

Looks pretty cool and it is time to read the docu: https://gluu.org/docs/gluu-server/admin-guide/oxtrust-ui/

Cool there lot’s options to configure , if you know what you need to configure touch them, otherwise don’t! I try to go through each of the configuration options and give brief comments about it.

Manage Authentication

In manage Captcha I setup following and I hope make sense

I am not sure why CAS Protocol is empty

One strange thing that Person Authentication Scripts is mentioned as Manage custom scripts in the official Gluu server guide:

Manage Registration

This is obvious enough, sure I wished from the UI perspective have differently named options, but well its cool enough for me.

Attributes

Read the following docu https://gluu.org/docs/gluu-server/admin-guide/attribute/

Import/Export Attribute LDIF

Interesting options where you can copy attributes from another gluu serve instance, but I don’t need it for my case.

Cache Refresh

This even complex , use it whenever you think it make sense to you, but seriously attaching Microsoft Active Directory is kind of overkill.

LogViewer Configuration

This is pretty obvious in my opinion additional logger is not require  , but well some people like to overcomplicate the stuff.

View Log File

This is pretty cool feature, when you for example don’t want to use ssh , you can use this page for looking into Gluu Server messages.

There lots of logs which you view, for me currently that’s not so critical , but some folks from devops love to look hours into logs, not me , I basicly prefer to react on event  (not working server, security issue, hardware failure) and that’s it.

Server Status:

Cool here you see basic info, which I like, because you are not overwhelmed by the data ;)

Certificates:

Read the Gluu online docu  https://gluu.org/docs/gluu-server/admin-guide/certificate/

What have Gluu Server next in “store” ?

In my case only OpenID and UMA was displayed, so for OpenID read the following

online docu 

Scopes:

This is pretty OpenID specific, i just say that even more time need to be spent on reading  scope claims 

Clients:

This obvious too, here you can specify additional client which would be
authorize to use the OpenId at Gluu Server

UMA: 

Read the online docu https://gluu.org/docs/gluu-server/admin-guide/uma/
My impression , another feature of Gluu Server which you can touch only  if you know what you doing.
Basically it’s a interface between different auth servers. I Wonder why its enabled by default? ;)

Users:

Well this feature is pretty important , because here you can see the list of users which allowed to use Gluu Server for authentication and authorization purposes!
Read online docu https://gluu.org/docs/gluu-server/user-management/local-user-management/

Groups:

Show the list of groups with different authorization purposes, 

Manage people:

Here finally you can add a Person

Import People:

Here you can import users from Excel, this is not applicable in my case, because I don’t plan to insert manually user , this rather administrative job , which I don’t like to attend to.

The last feature of Gluu Server is a Personal tab : basically here you would see your administrator personal data , you can change the values in this tab trough the user search in another tab, don’t forget to setup the right time zone 

So whats next?!

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