Grouper Users - Open Discussion List

[Peter DiCamillo <>]

At Brown we wrote a custom change log consumer, and we use ActiveMQ as 
the message broker. We use JSON for the messages. They're not based on 
any standard, but include information we need now, or can anticipate 
needing. Here's a sample:

> {"operation":"deleteMember",
>  "tracking":{"creationTime":"1397555117970000","changeLogSeq":"13973701"},
>  "subject":{"id":"123456789","brownType":"Undergraduate Student",
>             
> "mail":"","eppn":"",
>             "sn":"Last","idSource":"brown:LDAP","givenName":"First"},
>  "eventKind":"deleteMember",
>  "grouperGroup":{"description":"Students for BIOL0280 S01 2012-Spring",
>                  "name":"COURSE:BIOL:0280:2012-Spring:S01:Student"},
>  "targets":
>    [
>     {"groupName":"COURSE:BIOL:0280:2012-Spring:S01:Student","name":"canvas"}
>    ]
> }

ActiveMQ has been working well for us. However, as we commit more fully 
to this method of provisioning, we're evaluating whether we want to 
continue using ActiveMQ or switch to a different solution.

Peter

On 4/13/14 12:18 PM, Scott Koranda wrote:
> Hello,
>
> At the recent Grouper BOF held at the Internet2 Global Summit a number
> of campuses indicated they have or will be writing custom Grouper
> change log consumers that write some change log entries into message
> brokers so that consumers may read the messages and take appropriate
> provisioning actions. Provisioning into Google was mentioned a number
> of times.
>
> The message broker mentioned most often during the meeting was ActiveMQ.
>
> If your campus is taking this approach I would be grateful if you
> could reply with the flavor of message broker you are using or
> planning on using. I am curious to see if there is a consensus on the
> message broker of choice. I am happy to record the results in the
> Grouper wiki.
>
> I am also curious to understand what format campuses are using for the
> messages themselves? Is there an emerging standard or best practice?
>
> Thank you for your consideration.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Scott K