{"id":279,"date":"2018-08-02T08:16:40","date_gmt":"2018-08-02T07:16:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/integration\/?p=279"},"modified":"2018-09-11T16:31:39","modified_gmt":"2018-09-11T15:31:39","slug":"a-new-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/integration\/2018\/08\/02\/a-new-hope\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Hope"},"content":{"rendered":"

With the new academic year fast approaching, we were hoping to be able to avoid a return of the delays in Grouper to Active Directory provisioning we’ve suffered for the last two years<\/a>. Salvation seemingly lay in the hands of Grouper’s next generation provisioning technology but, following a saga longer than a pod race and more twisted than Darth Vader’s mind, we’ve concluded that PSP-NG is still not quite production-ready.<\/p>\n

But was that our last hope? No, there is another.<\/p>\n

I’ve recently begun working on something I’d been thinking about for a while. It’s not a replacement for the PSP technology but I believe it can complement it and significantly alleviate the impact of the inevitable provisioning backlog at the start of September<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Using Talend, the force behind much of the Institutional Data Feed Service, I plan to interrogate the Grouper change log to find out which groups that are provisioned to AD have had membership changes. Then, for each of those groups, I can query the Grouper database to find the complete current membership list for those groups. After a bit of jiggery-pokery, I can then push the full list of members into the corresponding group in AD.<\/p>\n

More testing is required but I’m confident that this will be a good addition to our resistance to the problem; perhaps the most powerful weapon in our arsenal of workarounds.<\/p>\n

This is just a prequel; you can expect the next episode before the end of the month, where we will let you know whether or not we are in a position to make this new weapon fully operational.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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