Grouper Users - Open Discussion List

["Michael R. Gettes" <>]

Um, forgive me, but i keep hearing how difficult it is to do this... and I am 
not appreciating why it is so difficult.  Should you, or anyone else, be 
interested in educating me, i'd be interested in learning.

/mrg

On Mar 17, 2011, at 10:28, Tom Zeller wrote:

> I was feeling a little depressed that ldappcng does not provision
> groups or memberships in real-time. It should.
> 
> We (Memphis) had Microsoft on campus the last two days to talk about
> provisioning 
> Live@edu,
>  and it turns out they have a "new" plug-in to
> ILM/FIM for 
> Live@edu
>  to provision groups - and it faces similar
> issues. For example, "large" groups (where "large" = 30k members) are
> recommended to be broken into smaller chunks, and the hardware
> requirements (CPU, RAM) are different if groups are provisioned.
> 
> The more assumptions one makes about how groups are provisioned, the
> easier it is to do so performantly. A generic real-time group
> provisioner seems difficult, but I think we can do it.
> 
> TomZ
>