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[Julio Polo <>]

Hi Chris,

Has anything changed in the last two years since I posted this question on detecting membership changes?  I don't need email notifications, and we are on Grouper 2.1.5.  The change log option sounded like the most efficient way of doing this, but that only applied to pre-2.0?  What are my options?  I need to synchronize LISTSERV lists as members are added or removed from specific groups.

Thanks!

Julio Polo
University of Hawaii

On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 10:32 AM, Chris Hyzer <> wrote:

We have the last membership changed in the DB, but we don't expose over WS, I supposed we could in a later version.

If you have 2.0, there is a rule for email notifications:

https://spaces.internet2.edu/display/Grouper/Grouper+rules+use+case+-+Email+notification+on+flattened+membership+remove

You could need a rule for add, and a rule for remove.  Note you can have this work for all groups in a folder with one rule.

Also, (applies to pre-2.0), you could use the change log to send an event somewhere (e.g. xmpp or ws), or send them email directly from the change log consumer.  This would be very easy to setup and I could send you a code example if you need it.   Just send me the exact requirements.

Generally the architecture of the change log allows us to avoid polling via ws (has the membership changed?  Has the membership changed?  Has the memberships changed? Etc) which is why it might not be ideal to add to the WS api :)

Thanks,
Chris

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Subject: [grouper-users] Detecting membership changes

Is there a web service for detecting whether members have been added
or removed from a group?  I'm contemplating an application that sends
us email whenever someone is added or removed from a group.  Is the
audit functionality the best way to achieve this?  I didn't see a web
service for it, though.  Or shall we just do a periodic dump of the
entire membership and diff for changes?

Julio Polo
Identity and Access Management
University of Hawaii