Grouper Users - Open Discussion List

[Tom Barton <>]

Christopher,

I'm CCing the grouper-users list, which is a better venue in which to 
follow up on this topic.

The grouper product documentation wiki (hopefully!) answers your questions:

https://wiki.internet2.edu/confluence/display/GrouperWG/Grouper+Product

Here's a very brief list of the ways to maintain grouper groups from 
external sources:

. use grouper loader to maintain memberships dynamically from external 
relational sources

. use grouper web services to update groups and memberships

. use grouper shell to import XML-formatted group, privilege, and 
membership information

. use grouper shell to run scripts of group management commands 
generated from external sources

. the grouper UI, for manual management, including cut and paste of 
lists of members, by grouper system administrators or other highly 
technical users

Hope this helps, and I hope you continue to bring questions that arise 
as you implement grouper back to this list.

Tom

Christopher Mohr wrote:
> Hello internet2-community,
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> I am a student at the University of Essen in Germany. I also work for 
> the computer center here at the university. My boss and I were looking 
> for a group-management-system to use for some institutions on campus, 
> and we found grouper. I managed to set it up and got it running with a 
> mysql database. After I got a quick overview of the system, I had some 
> questions popping up so I checked the documentations and mailing list on 
> the website. I might be mistaken, but is there some information about 
> how you can insert data (members) into grouper? We understood how the 
> process of managing (grouping) members works, but not yet where the 
> input comes from. I would appreciate if you could give me a little hint 
> or, if it is already documented, where it can be found.
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> Thank you for your efforts.
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> With regards,
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> Christopher Mohr