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[Chris Hyzer <>]

Change log its not only pre-2.0, it is still available and will be over future releases


-------- Original message --------
From: Peter DiCamillo <> 
Date: 10/12/2013  12:26 AM  (GMT-05:00) 
To:  
Subject: Re: [grouper-users] Detecting membership changes 
 

If you're referring to the L-Soft LISTSERV product, have you considered 
using Listserv's support for dynamic lists based on LDAP? Using that, 
Grouper would only have to provision LDAP groups for use by Listserv.

Peter

On 10/11/13 11:43 PM, Julio Polo wrote:
> 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 <
> <mailto:>> 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
>
>     -----Original Message-----
>     From: 
>     <mailto:>
>     [mailto:
>     <mailto:>] On Behalf Of Julio Polo
>     Sent: Friday, October 07, 2011 4:05 PM
>     To:  <mailto:>
>     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
>
>