CAS Server Management

[Scott Battaglia]

Bill,

CAS currently provides mechanisms to publish events about certain actions (
i.e. authentications, logouts, etc.).   If one wants to do something with
one of these events, they should implement an "EventHandler" that knows how
to handle that event.  You can find out more about the events here:

http://developer.ja-sig.org/source/browse/jasig/cas3/cas-server-core/src/main/java/org/jasig/cas/event

Currently we don't offer an explicit mechanism for applications to register
an interest in the events.  However, an EventHandler you implement can do
anything you want it to (write to a database that others read, make a web
service call, etc.).

You can currently use CAS to provide authentication to non-web
applications.  However, they will not be able to participate in any single
sign on session enabled by the web browser as the session identifier is only
sent to the browser securely.

-Scott

On 2/16/07, Bill Bailey <Bill.Bailey at northlandchurch.net> wrote:
>
>  Hi,
>
>
>
> I am a relative CAS newbie and have a number of initial questions as part
> of my evaluation of the software for our project.
>
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> 1)       Does CAS expose any API or other mechanism to allow one to
> monitor and manage the server? For example, to list open sessions, determine
> which services have been logged into by a session, forcibly terminate a
> session, and/or change any of the configuration parameters of the server at
> runtime?
>
> 2)       Is it possible to find out when new sessions are created or
> deleted? For example, is it possible for another application to register an
> interest in these events and be notified when they occur?
>
> 3)       Has anyone had any experience CAS-ifying a non-web application?
> For example, we are thinking of integrating Wildfire (an open source chat
> solution) into our system and would like to have it participate in single
> sign-on along with all the other applications, but it is not strictly a web
> application. Any comments on the feasibility, difficulty, or ease of doing
> this type of integration?
>
>
>
> I'm sure I'll have more questions as I get deeper into this, but that is
> enough for now. Thanks in advance for any information you may provide.
>
>
>
> Bill Bailey
>
> Senior Developer / DBA
>
> Northland, A Church Distributed
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