Grouper Users - Open Discussion List

[Chris Hyzer <>]

Does anyone see something like this to be included in grouper at some 
point?  It seems like a UI to enter a query which would be used 
periodically sync up with the group registry is useful and would be 
useful...

Chris

Kathryn Huxtable wrote:
> 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
> > >       
> >
> > ----------------------
> > GW Brown, Information Systems and Computing
> >
> >     
>
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