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- What database (existing or new) will form your Grouper database repository?
- What database (existing) will provide you with subject data
- Do you plan to replicate groups data out to LDAP or some other database? (for LDAP, see this training video)
- Do you plan to automate groups management (for some or all groups) based on one or more data sources (and using the Grouper Loader)?
- Should you use just an application server or an application server + web server to enable web access?
- Which interfaces to groups data do plan to initially implement and support? Web browser access? Web services access? Grouper shell access?
- How do you expect end-users and applications to interface for read-only and for read-write purposes to groups data? See this training video on integration
- Security considerations (e.g. wheel group, externalizing and encrypting database/ldap passwords)
- How will you structure configuration files?
- Will you use
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- Confirm access to hardware/software environments, data sources and destinations
- Outline steps for installation and configuration of Grouper software elements. Consider using this quickstart method
- Finalize initial stems/folders to create, authentication approach, initial groups to create and populate (see examples)
- consider using the template wizard
- Plan basic testing of functionality
- Plan for ongoing operations, considering your desired approach to such duties as
- Monitoring / Management / Maintenance (see the section on Ongoing Admin Tasks)
- Support for Application developers/managers integrating their apps with Grouper
- Support for any end-users
- Plan to document your installation and configuration as you go along. Please share your experience so other sites can benefit.
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