COmanage: Managing Identities & Collaborations

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What is COmanage?

COmanage is an identity registry with flexible enrollment and lifecycle management capabilities that helps you meet your identity management objectives using standardized tools and approaches. COmanage can be used as a central person registry, a guest management system, or a collaboration hub for scholarly collaborations.

Workshop Overview

This two-day hands-on class will provide a conceptual understanding of COmanage, and the technical know-how to get this solution up and running.

What you will learn

Whether you represent a research computing center or central IT, you can expect to learn:

  • how to deploy COmanage using the InCommon Docker images from the InCommon Trusted Access Platform and configure it for basic use
  • configure COmanage so that it works in a way that is customized for your organizational needs
  • how to model your organization or collaboration, and to set up enrollment flows and data processing to get the right people using the right services
  • basics of identifier management and group/role provisioning and management
What to expect

In a nutshell, here is what you can expect over the next two days:

  • Meeting up to 40 new friends from campuses across the globe
  • Direct access to subject matter experts. Don’t be shy with your questions!
  • Gain experience with the Docker container version of COmanage

Knowledge of identity management concepts and related implementation experience is strongly recommended.

Getting Started

This mini-site has resources for you to prepare for the workshop:

  • Workshop orientation - provides important information about the workshop, including a link to register and the pre-workshop lessons that you will need to prepare ahead of time.
  • Lesson details - Provides details of what will be reviewed during the workshop.

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