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Grouper Administration Guides

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Online Training Videos

Release Notes

Grouper Deployment Guide

Release Information

Installation & Configuration

Planning Guide
Components Overview
Architecture Diagram
Prerequisites - Establish the Grouper environment.
Product Specifications - "Specsheet" for Grouper
Grouper Installer - Installs the Grouper API, quickstart data, UI, WS, and client
API Installation - Configure the API and integrate with existing identity stores.
WS Installation - Build, secure, and deploy Grouper Web Services.
Initializing Administration of Privileges - The first stem and group you should create.
Group and folder design ideas - Examples of how institutions have organized and delegated their folders and groups

Getting Ready for Production with Grouper - steps to think about after Grouper installation

Grouper UIs

Administrative UI Installation - Configure, build, and deploy Grouper's User Interfaces.
Customizing the Administrative UI
Grouper Web UIs - Information on web-based user interfaces provided with Grouper.

Tools & Topics for On-Going Administration

GrouperShell -  The gsh command line utility.
Grouper Daemon -  Background processing including: GrouperLoader, notifications and membership expiry.
Grouper Client - Client for Grouper LDAP and Web Services.
Move and Copy - How to move / copy groups or stems.
Web Services  - A web application that exposes common Grouper business logic through SOAP and REST
Always Available Web Services and Client -  Web services that do not have a single point of failure.
Attribute Framework -  A framework for assigning metadata to Grouper objects.
Attribute Framework UI - User interfaces for defining and managing attributes
Grouper subject filter and attribute decorator - Restrict access to Subject attributes.
Grouper local entities - Manage access within Grouper for Subjects not managed in a Subject Source.
Custom Group Types & Fields - What they are and how to create and delete them.
User Audit Log - How to review who made what changes and when.
Point in Time Auditing - Query the state of Grouper in the past.
Import/Export Tool - Documentation for the XML Import/Export tool.
Legacy Import/Export Tool- Documentation for the original XML Import/Export tool.

Grouper Diagnostics - Gives the health of Grouper

Ongoing Administration Tasks - Suggestions for ongoing Grouper administration tasks, including pruning the logs and registry, performing monitoring, and setting up notifications.

Access Management

Access Management Features Overview - An overview of when to use rules, roles, limits, and other access management features
Role and permission management - Allowing external applications to centrally manage roles and permissions in Grouper
Permission Limits - Setting up runtime constraints on permissions
Enabled and disabled dates - Setting up memberships to apply only in the future, or for a certain period of time
Rules - Attach actions on certain events to trigger certain results

Provisioning and Integration

Provisioning Service Provider  - Handles provisioning in Grouper  2.1 and above (replaces  Ldappc and Ldappc-ng)
Grouper Loader - Automatically manage Grouper memberships based on a data source
Subject API - Used to integrate a java application with a site's existing Identity Management operations
Notification (Change Log)  - Grouper can incrementally integrate with or provision external systems.
Hooks - Create connections from the Grouper API to your custom code
External Subjects - Managing external subjects.
Sync Grouper with another Grouper - Allows two group management systems to share a group.
Shibboleth Integration (Grouper 2.1 and above) - Grouper as a Data Connector Extension for Shibboleth (newer architecture)
Shibboleth Integration (Prior to Grouper 2.1) - Grouper as a Data Connector Extension for Shibboleth.
Exposing Groups Through Shibboleth
ESB Connector - Integrating Grouper with an event-driven ESB architecture.
XMPP Notifications -
Grouper integration with Kuali Rice - Use Grouper groups in Kuali applications and middleware, and use Kuali Enterprise Workflow in Grouper groups management.
Grouper Atlassian Connector - Allows you to manage Atlassian (Jira, Confluence) groups and person information.

Utilities

Unresolvable Subject Deletion Utility - Documentation for the command line usdu tool.
Bad Membership Finder Utility - Documentation for the findbadmemberships command line script.

Other

Glossary - Important Definitions

Getting Started with Grouper Book (not complete)

Community Contributions

User Interfaces

On-Going Administration

Access Management

Provisioning and Integration

Utilities

Glossary, Roadmap and Other

 Grouper Online Training Videos (New as of August 2012)