Grouper Users - Open Discussion List

[Gabby Capitanchik <>]

Hi,

> Duke, Brown, Cornell and others probably have direct experience, but
> generating lots of new groups and/or memberships will take some time
> 8hrs+ I would guess depending on your systems and the numbers involved

By lots do you mean 100s, 1000s or 10000s?

Cheers

Gabby Capitanchik

GW Brown, Information Systems and Computing wrote:
> --On 27 January 2009 15:49 +0000 Gabby Capitanchik 
> <> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Thanks for the responses so far! I have been reading through the
> > documentation and have a couple of more questions for you guys:-
> >
> > 1) Does Grouper take a copy of Identity information from an IDM/ID Store
> > or does it hold a reference to that data. For example, a uuid?
> Grouper maintains subject ids in the grouper_members table. It is up to 
> the source adapter to map the subject id to a uuid in the IDM/ID Store.
> > 2) Has anyone got experience of how Grouper handle large volumes of group
> > change. For example, at the start of an academic year (for student
> > groups) or when an Organisational structure changes (for staff)
> Duke, Brown, Cornell and others probably have direct experience, but 
> generating lots of new groups and/or memberships will take some time 
> 8hrs+ I would guess depending on your systems and the numbers involved
> > 3)What is the maximum number of groups that Grouper can handle?
> There is no limit as such - assuming your RDBMS can hold the data and 
> indexes. Depending on how groups are structured in a stem hierarchy and 
> how privileges are assigned some operations, particularly in the UI, may 
> be slow.
>
> I believe sites are using 100,000s of groups and millions of memberships.
> > Cheers
> >
> > Gabby
> >
> >
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> GW Brown, Information Systems and Computing

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