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Generic Connector Framework
Agenda
GCF Generic Connector Framework Training Session
Location:
Days/Time:
Foothill Campus, Room D210 Conference Area
Monday, August 3rd through Thursday, August 6th
9 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Monday - Session Room Preparation (8:30am – 9:00am)
 Requested materials: laptop projector, white board, dry-erase markers
 Verify Luminis system access
 Internet connection
Monday, August 3rd
Introduction and Architectural Overview of GCF
9:00am – 12:00pm
Introduction & Agenda Overview
 Review planned agenda and goals/objectives
 Load agenda with additional topics of interest to your institution
GCF Technical Architectural Overview
Goal: Familiarize all participants with the GCF architecture and design methodology
 Conceptual Architecture
 Internal Components
 GCF Design standards
 GCF Protocol
 Definition of Terms
 Common myths about GCF
 System Pre-requisites
 GCF Basics
o Single Sign-on
o Session Management
o Integration Scenario
 GCF Integration Components
o Process flow for single sign-on integration
 GCF Phases
o GCF Discovery (Understanding behavior of external system and verify
connector can be built)
o GCF Authentication
o GCF Session Management
 Performing GCF Integration
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Modifications to make on the external system
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GCF Connector responsibilities
 Evaluating GCF candidate systems
 Integration Consideration
Lab: Building a GCF Connector – Hands-on exercise
1:00pm – 5:00pm
Goal:
Establish implementation approach for sample connector
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Discovery Phase of sample external application
Practice session for sniffing traffic for one external system
Build Connector using Pickup-response technique
Build Connector using Pickup-HTML technique
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Generic Connector Framework
Agenda
Tuesday, August 4th
Lab: Sample Connector Exercise (Contd.)
9:00am – 5:00pm
(Breaking for lunch around 12:00PM)
 Exercise sessions for building sample connector’s contd.
 Re-sniffing traffic for external system authentication
 Identifying errors and troubleshooting use cases
 Usage of GCF XML tags
 Debug process for verifying connector
 Logging and system verification for GCF connectors
 Start stop of Generic connector web server
 Maintenance, Migrations etc.
(NOTE: Should we complete the initial sample connector, the remaining lab time
will be spent by the participants to construct additional connectors, if desired)
Wednesday, August 5th
Lab: Sample Connector Exercise (Contd.)
9:00am – 5:00pm
(Breaking for lunch around 12:00PM)
 Exercise sessions for building sample connector’s contd.
 Re-sniffing traffic for external system authentication
 Identifying errors and troubleshooting use cases
 Usage of GCF XML tags
 Debug process for verifying connector
 Logging and system verification for GCF connectors
 Start stop of Generic connector web server
 Maintenance, Migrations etc.
(NOTE: Should we complete the initial sample connector, the remaining lab time
will be spent by the participants to construct additional connectors)
Thursday, August 6th
Lab: Developing Site-Specific Connectors
Q&A – Next Steps
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9:00am – 3:00pm
(Breaking for lunch around 12:00PM)
3:00pm – 4:00pm
Questions answers
Documentation hand over etc.
Note: All times and topics are normalized for a typical campus assessment. Some topics may
not be applicable to FHDA. Times and topics are flexible and can be adjusted to best fit the
needs of the participants.
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