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• Grouper provides foundational functionality:
  
  • Define your group once and use it to:
  1. 1. Create and manage the group of people who are allowed to access your application or system.
     2. Integrate Grouper with your application so that membership in your group equates to authorization.
  • Take advantage of the depth and breadth of our automatically populated groups.
• It is highly recommended that you use UH Groupings to take advantage of additional group functionality:
  • Most groups are made up of a combination of a well-defined population plus some exceptions for inclusion and/or exclusion. UH Groupings models this behavior and makes it easy to use.
  • Use UH Grouping's LISTSERV release feature so that your group can be used for access control with CAS.
  • Use UH Grouping's LISTSERV sync feature so that your group is automatically synchronized with a LISTSERV mailing list
  • Use UH Grouping's term transition feature to automatically change the group membership when semesters change.
  • Use the UH Grouping's lifecycle feature so that you receive email when a person in your group leaves or changes position, for example, if authorizations need to be revoked.
    
    • It is very easy to grant access to someone, but it is even easier to forget to remove such access when the person is no longer authorized. UH Groupings can provide that reminder when someone in the group has left or changed positions
    • If an email notification is not appropriate (e.g. need real-time message for automatic deprovisioning), use the UH Message Broker instead. The underlying events that cause a person to enter or leave a group are available as a message.

Getting Started with Grouper

• You can use the Grouper API to talk to Grouper.
• If you use UH Groupings (recommended), you should follow these guidelines:
  • UH Groupings Developer Documentation

About the Data in Grouper

• Grouper Data
• UH Group Store

References

• May 2011 ITS IAM presentation to the UH Developer community <powerpoint>
• The Grouper Groups Management toolkit is an open source software solution provided by Internet2.  For more information:
  • http://www.internet2.edu/grouper/
  • https://spaces.internet2.edu/display/Grouper/Grouper+Web+Services
  • Glossary
  • Tom Barton's Presentation
  • Web Services
    • Samples
• How do we compare to other institutions?
  •  https://spaces.internet2.edu/display/Grouper/Statistics+from+the+Community