h1. OpenSSO Early Access Free Training
Deploying OpenSSO servers in a simple environment is trivially easy. But throw secure sockets layer (SSL), load balancers, multiple servers, session failover, and Policy Agents into the mix, and deployment becomes a little more complex.
The OpenSSO Deployment course - a series of five downloadable, self-paced labs - takes you through a complex OpenSSO deployment. You deploy two Apache Tomcat servers, SSL-enable them, install a software load balancer, install OpenSSO into the environment, and configure OpenSSO for session failover. Then you install an example web server and an example application server, and install Policy Agent software to see how OpenSSO protects web sites and JavaTM 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EETM) applications.
This course uses OpenSSO Build 4.5, which provides identical functionality to OpenSSO Express Build 5. Other deployment components include Apache Tomcat version 6.0.14, Sun Java System Web Server version 7.0, and GlassFishTM application server version 2.
h1. System Requirements
For this training, you need a system that meets the following requirements:
* x86-based.
* Runs the Windows, Mac O/S, or Linux operating system.
* A minimum of 2 GB memory. (More is better.)
* 30 GB of free space on a disk drive.
h1. Get the Training
First, sign up for an account at [My Sun|http://my.sun.com/] if you do not already have one. (Sun employees can use their Sun e-mail address and LDAP password to log in.) Then [access the course|http://slslabs.sun.com/course/wspl-am-3508-d] from Sun Learning's lab portal.
h1. Get Help While Taking the Training
Since this training is available at no cost to you, the Ask the Expert feature of Sun Learning's lab portal is inactive for this OpenSSO Deployment course. So use the OpenSSO community to get help instead. E-mail the [mailing list|mailto:users@opensso.dev.java.net], post to the [forum|https://opensso.dev.java.net/servlets/ForumMessageList?forumID=1554], or use the [IRC channel|irc://irc.freenode.net/opensso].