Grouper Users - Open Discussion List

[Kathryn Huxtable <>]

At KU we use a loader developed from the XmlImporter class in the API. It
uses SQL queries against our enterprise metadirectory to populate Grouper
groups in a ku:base stem, which can then be combined to form other groups
using the grouper UI. The SQL queries are created from a separate web
interface that we developed.

For downstream provisioning you can use the ldappc product available from
the Grouper website, or if you ask me you can get a copy of my rdbpc, which
provisions tables in a relational database. I should really put this up on
the Grouper wiki in the KU section...

-K


On 4/5/07 3:52 AM, "GW Brown, Information Systems and Computing"
<>
 wrote:

> Tom,
> 
> Grouper does not have a 'rules' engine for determining group memberships.
> Memberships have to be maintained either by hand i.e. the UI, or by a
> 'Loader'. In the future there may be membership aging.
> 
> I'm sure some kind of rules engine would be very useful but I don't think
> there is one on the roadmap at present. It would probably be worth starting
> a discussion to gather requirements. In principle, a rules engine could be
> developed to use the Grouper API, but otherwise be independent of it. It
> could run as a daemon or, perhaps more likely, as a cron job.
> 
> Gary
> 
> --On 04 April 2007 12:30 -0500 Tom Zeller 
> <>
>  wrote:
> 
>> I'm welcome to ideas regarding how to handle when "something" about a
>> group member changes that should result in adding or removing (or
>> disabling ?) the member from the group. For example, given a helpdesk
>> group which consists of full-time staff and transient student-workers
>> and which has elevated privileges, is there a Grouper-way to remove a
>> student-worker from the group when their employment ends ?
>> 
>> I was thinking of something like a group membership rule which says  each
>> member must have a particular attribute.
>> 
>> If I missed something in the docs or wherever please point me in the
>> right direction.
>> 
>> Thank you,
>> Tom
> 
> 
> 
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> GW Brown, Information Systems and Computing
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