Grouper Training - Admin Connectors

Chris Hyzer

Internet2

University of Pennsylvania

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Contents

• Introduction

• Connector architecture

• Types of connectors

• Kuali Rice

• uPortal

• Atlassian

• Atlassian architecture

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Introduction to Connectors

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Connector architecture

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Types of connectors

• Connectors can be built from systems that can externalize groups/permissions

• It is easier if it is a Java application (can use client)• Connectors maintained by Grouper team:

• Kuali Rice• uPortal• Atlassian (Jira/Confluence)

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Grouper / Kuali Rice Connector

• To use Grouper in Kuali Rice• To use workflow in Grouper• Can implement the Rice:• Groups service• Group update service• Identity service• Misc other features (e.g. auto-provision

memberships / permissions at end of workflow)

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Grouper / Kuali Rice Connector (continued)

• Configure in rice config file:

• This is used in Rice 1.0.2.1 at Penn

• For other versions, probably need to recompile against the version of Rice's interfaces

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uPortal connector

• Architecture similar to Kuali Rice

• Configure compositeGroupServices.xml

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Atlassian connector

• Architecture similar to Kuali Rice, though caches with real time updates

• Note: you might be able to use the Atlassian LDAP integration instead

• Connector works with Jira and Confluence• In the latest versions of Jira/Confluence the

group/entity interfaces do not exist• This connector will not work anymore

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Atlassian connector architecture

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Atlassian connector (continued)

• Configure osuser.xml

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Quiz

• Click on the quiz link in the video description to reinforce your knowledge of this topic

Thanks!

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