Grouper Users - Open Discussion List

[Keith Hazelton <>]

I'm going to cross-post this to CIFER-Provisioning and Integration.

Curious to know specifics: Are you using an ESB? Just a JMS queue? Which 
products?  What do the message recipients do since most target systems don't 
come knowing how to do this.

        --Keith
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On 2013-04-09, at 12:03 , Steven Carmody wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I know my question is only tangentially related to Grouper, but at least 
> there's a link, even if its weak. Thanks for your patience with this 
> question!
> 
> Brown replicates group memberships from Grouper to several different target 
> systems: ldap, Google, and our LMS. We expect to add other targets over 
> time. When changes occur in Grouper, a msg is placed on a msg bus. A 
> listener picks up that msg, and has a set of rules telling it the one or 
> more targets that the msg should be forwarded to.
> 
> As we become more and more reliant on this infrastructure, we're asking 
> ourselves what we should monitor with respect to the bus. We're keenly 
> interested in the experience of other sites with respect to what sorts of 
> problems they've encountered with a bus, and what sort of monitoring we 
> should implement.
> 
> Is it enough to just make sure that the bus is delivering msgs? (ie have a 
> separate Q used by the monitoring software). Or do we need to build 
> monitoring into all the Listeners, to make sure that they are all still 
> processing msgs ? Or other approaches ?
> 
> Thanks in advance for sharing your experience and suggestions!