Grouper Users - Open Discussion List

["GW Brown, Information Systems and Computing" <>]

--On 27 January 2009 16:20 +0000 Gabby Capitanchik 
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> 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?
Say 10,000-30,000 groups and 100,000s of members.
> 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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