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Like LDAP, Jetty comprises two installations, the server itself and then the Shibboleth IDP installation.
The Jetty installation is a bit involved because it does not come in a handy rpm from yum. Instead To install Jetty, the tar file is downloaded , and untarred, and then Jetty is configured in the salt processby Salt. We had to write wrote our own init.d file, which is also installed during that process, which better handles the forking process for starting Jetty.
The tuning recommendations from the Jetty wiki are implemented and propagated using Salt.
We also configured Jetty to listen on a port to know when to be shut down, rather than using the typical init.d technique of saving and looking for a pid. To test if Jetty is up, it does a quick connection to the expected open Jetty port.
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