Deployment details
Grouper 2.1.3 was successfully deployed at University of Montreal in December 2012. Development and deployment are still active to include different projects.
Grouper is using Active Directory as it's subject source as well as a target for groups. It was deployed in high availability on Linux virtual server using load balancers in front of the web and application layer. Other processes use the Grouper API to "connect" it to other data sources (See "AcadLoader" in the diagram and Automatic group creation)
Current applications
Automatic group creation for academics
Creation of group for courses and programs
In development
Integration with Exchange for distribution list.
Following the academics groups, we need to integrate them in Echange as distribution lists
Future applications
Integration with Oracle Identity Manager (OIM)
OIM is currently being deployed. Instead of managing groups in OIM (which does a poor job at this), Grouper would be used to allow delegation of group creation and membership management to multiple faculties and to provision different targets. Use cases where users will use Grouper are still being designed. Reconciliation of group membership in OIM might be done, but it's still under discussion.
Integration with Linux machines
Grouper would provision groups and membership to an LDAP directory (OID - Oracle Internet Directory). Permissions and authentication should be based on this information.