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Grouper Administration Guides

Grouper Deployment Guide

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Information

Installation & Configuration

Planning Guide

Architecture Diagram

Prerequisites - Establish the Grouper environment.
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.

Getting Started Quickly

Grouper UIs

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

Tools & Topics for On-Going Administration

GrouperShell - Documentation for the gsh command line utility.
Grouper Daemon - Documentation for 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 which exposes common Grouper business logic through SOAP and REST
Attribute Framework -  A framework for assigning metadata to Grouper objects.
Attribute Framework UI - User interfaces for defining and managing attributes
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.

Access Management

Access Management Features Overview - A guide to when to use rules, roles, limits, and other access management features
Role and permission management - Grouper v1.5+ allows external applications to centrally manage roles and permissions in Grouper
Permission Limits - For setting up runtime constraints on permissions
Enabled and disabled dates - Memberships can be set 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

Ldappc-ng - Documentation for the LDAP Provisioning Connector.
Ldappc - Documentation for the original LDAP Provisioning Connector.
Notification - Grouper can incrementally provision external systems.
External Subjects - Managing external subjects.
Sync Grouper with another Grouper - Allows two group management systems to share a group.
Shibboleth Integration - Grouper as a Data Connector Extension for Shibboleth.
Exposing Groups Through Shibboleth
ESB Connector - Integrating Grouper with an event-driven ESB architecture.
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)

User Interfaces

On-Going Administration

Access Management

Provisioning and Integration

Utilities

Glossary, Roadmap and Other

 Community Contributions