Once you've installed and had a good look around the quick start, you'll be ready to start setting up and instance of Grouper which contains your data, rather than sample data. Before jumping into this it's worthwhile taking some time to review what you already have in your infrastructure and to plan the integration of Grouper into it.
You should be following a structured process to progress from the quick start to a production installation of Grouper. The steps that I will be outlining are:
At this stage we are going to consider only core components of the Grouper toolkit - the database and API and the UI. Other available components (such as the web service and client) will be covered in later chapters.