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- Review Grouper introductory/overview documentation, including the glossary.
- The "Grouper Training for Managers" video series provides an overview of both access management at large, as well as Grouper's core concepts and featuresTake Grouper School training
- Review the Grouper Deployment Guide
- Imagine how you expect Grouper to fit into your identity and application architecture
- Check out the Grouper Demo
- Install Grouper in a test environment to familiarize yourself with Grouper.
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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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Grouper Training VideosSchool training
Grouper Training slides (including group naming best practices)
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