Grouper Users - Open Discussion List

[Jim Fox <>]

Our group system requires that our LDAP servers
be up-to-date with grouper with no more than a few
seconds delay.  To do that we run a separate process
that watches a grouper change log and updates LDAP.
That same process puts each update message, in the
form of a REST resource, onto a message bus.  Presently
that is activeMQ.  If we were doing this fresh today
I think we might use Amazon's SNS service instead.

Several clients pick up messages from the group
activity queue.  One of them sends selected updates
to Google Groups - triggered by a group attribute.
Other clients update local membership caches.

For historical reasons much of the code is in c.
If you're interested in some of it I can probably
get you a copy.

Jim

On Wed, 27 Jun 2012, Steven Carmody wrote:

> Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 05:00:45 -0700
> From: Steven Carmody 
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> Subject: Re: [grouper-users] Grouper to Google Groups provisioning
> From: Steven Carmody 
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> We've been doing this for about eighteen months. I have permission to 
> distribute the code; it has to be pried from the grip of the programmers, 
> tho. I believe that the Univ of Washington has been doing this even longer; 
> Jim Fox is the contact. Both sites use a message bus to make Grouper changes 
> available to a variety of listeners. We're on Grouper 1.6, trying to move to 
> 2.x this summer.
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> Sent from my iPad
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> On Jun 26, 2012, at 11:30 PM, Gary Chapman 
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> > We're getting ready to decide if we want to provision [some] Grouper-managed 
> > groups to Google Groups.
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> > Has this been "done"?  Are folks working on this?  Thoughts?  Comments?
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> > Thinking PSP is the way to go these days...
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> > - Gary Chapman, NYU