Category: Docs

ForgeRock welcomes Nabil Maynard

On By Mark CraigIn Docs, Identity ManagementLeave a comment

Late welcome to Nabil Maynard who joined the ForgeRock documentation team this past Monday.

Nabil has started working on the identity management documentation. He’s digging into his new full-time job as a writer.

Nabil brings solid technical experience and understanding of how server software works, having been a QA professional for years at places like Dropbox. So much of writing good documentation for ForgeRock software depends on throughly understanding what the software does, how it can be broken, and what you should do to make it work correctly. Nabil’s contributions will surely help you get deeper into ForgeRock’s identity management software.

ForgeRock welcomes Gina Cariaga

On By Mark CraigIn DocsLeave a comment

Late welcome to Gina Cariaga who joined the ForgeRock documentation team this spring.

Gina has strong experience writing about access management and directory services. Her formal background in training, mixed with her hands-on success with the kind of documentation we do at ForgeRock make a great combination.

Gina’s initial work at ForgeRock has included putting together a guide to getting started with the ForgeRock platform for IoT architects and developers. Gina is continuing to write on using ForgeRock’s identity and access management capabilities in the IoT space, and much more.

ForgeRock Identity Platform 5.0 docs

On By Mark CraigIn Access Management, Directory Services and LDAP, Docs, Identity Management, UncategorizedLeave a comment

ForgeRock Logo By now you have probably read the news about the ForgeRock Identity Platform 5.0 release.

This major platform update comes with many documentation changes and improvements:

Hope you have no trouble finding what you need.

We’re hiring

On By Mark CraigIn Docs, Identity ManagementLeave a comment

ForgeRock still has open positions in many locations. One of those is for a writer based in our Vancouver, WA office (across the river from Portland, OR).

Be forewarned. This is challenging, hands-on technical writing and reverse engineering work. If you are looking for a gig where you can remain in your comfort zone, skip this one.

On the other hand, if you feel that most things worth doing are tough in the beginning, take a closer look and apply for the job.

ForgeRock 3.2.2 doc tools released

On By Mark CraigIn Docs, ToolsLeave a comment

ForgeRock Logo ForgeRock doc tools 3.2.2 were released today.

This is a maintenance release, compatible with earlier 3.2.x releases.

ForgeRock doc tools 3.2.2 includes the following components:

  • forgerock-doc-maven-plugin
  • forgerock-doc-common-content
  • forgerock-doc-default-branding

This release resolves bugs and includes several improvements. For details, see the release notes.

Big thanks once again for enhancements, for identifying problems, and for help debugging.

Thanks to Chris Lee, Cristina Herraz, Joanne Henry, Lana Frost, Lori Goldman, David Goldsmith, Gene Hirayama, and Mike Jang for fixes, improvements, testing and bug reports.

Thanks also to the ForgeRock BackStage team for their help and continued improvements to release documentation.

OpenAM: New topic-based documentation

On By Mark CraigIn Access Management, DocsLeave a comment

ForgeRock LogoOpenAM’s capabilities have grown significantly in the last few releases, with the result that even the product docs outgrew the old organization. Thanks to Chris Lee, Cristina Herraz, David Goldsmith, and Gene Hirayama, the draft docs are now arranged to make it easier to find just what you are looking for.

Instead of a guide-based doc set, what you see now are topic-oriented categories that bring you right to the features you want to use:

  • Try OpenAM (up and running quickly, ready for evaluation)
  • Access Management (authentication and single sign-on, authorization, RADIUS)
  • Federation (OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect 1.0, SAML, STS)
  • User Services (self-registration, self-serve account and password management, self-serve sharing using UMA)
  • Installation and Maintenance (plan, install, set up, upgrade, and maintain access management services)
  • Extensibility (REST APIs, Java APIs and SPIs, C SDK)
  • Policy Agents (for enforcing policy on web sites and in Java web applications)

Each guide is written so that you find everything about a topic in one place. Are you focused on centralizing access policies for authorization? Read the Authorization Guide. Interested in granting access to account info for modern mobile and web applications using OpenID Connect? See the OpenID Connect 1.0 Guide. Participating in a federation of SAML 2 providers? Check out the SAML 2.0 Guide.

Those of you who knew the old layout intimately are probably going to wonder, “Where did you move my stuff?” In fact, there is a guide for that, too. Having Trouble Finding Something? indicates where your stuff went, with tables of correspondence from each section in the old layout to the topic in the new layout.

Great to see this leap forward towards a topic-based documentation set for OpenAM!

docbkx-tools 2.0.17 is out

On By Mark CraigIn Docs, ToolsLeave a comment

Congratulations to Cedric on the release of docbkx-tools 2.0.17 earlier this week.

For those of you working with DocBook and Maven, docbkx-tools provides a plugin to generate output formats (HTML, PDF, etc.) as part of the Maven build, by applying the DocBook XSL stylesheets.

The 2.0.17 release adds some improvements, including support for DocBook XSL 1.79.1.

At ForgeRock, we have been relying on docbkx-tools since 2011. The next release of our doc build plugin is using 2.0.17. Upgrade was straightforward. The only issue that still needs fixing is olink support in chunked HTML.

ForgeRock doc tools 3.2.0 released

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ForgeRock Logo ForgeRock doc tools 3.2.0 were released today.

This is a minor release, compatible with earlier 3.x releases, with one small exception. See the release notes for details.

ForgeRock doc tools 3.2.0 includes the following components:

  • forgerock-doc-maven-plugin
  • forgerock-doc-common-content
  • forgerock-doc-default-branding

This release brings several improvements and squashes a few bugs.

Big thanks once again to Chris Lee for enhancements to the Bootstrap-styled HTML (the default for draft, in-progress docs to read when trying nightly builds), for identifying problems, and for help debugging.

Thanks also to Joanne Henry, Lana Frost, Lori Goldman, David Goldsmith, Gene Hirayama, and Mike Jang for testing and bug reports.

ForgeRock Common Audit

On By Mark CraigIn Access Management, Directory Services and LDAP, Docs, Identity ManagementLeave a comment

ForgeRock LogoCommon Audit is another new feature of the ForgeRock platform.

Common Audit is part of the platform-wide infrastructure: a framework to handle audit events using common audit event handlers that are plugged in to the individual products. The handlers record events, logging them for example into files, relational databases, or syslog. Because handlers are pluggable, new handlers can be added to interoperate with your systems that store and analyze audit data.

Each audit event is identified by a unique transaction ID. The IDs can be communicated across the products and recorded for each local event. The transaction ID is the means to track requests as they traverse the platform.

In the current platform, configuring handlers depends on the product. So there are several places in the docs to read about how to configure Common Audit:

In addition, if you want to get the source code for Common Audit, or are interested in trying out new handlers and developments, you can find it on the ForgeRock Stash server. Right now it is in the forgerock-audit git repository. (To access most code on the ForgeRock Stash server, sign in with your ForgeRock credentials. You can sign up if you have not done so.)