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The last 4 years have seen steady growth in the service and grouper is embedded as the default choice for group management and access control in the university.
The Grouper service is used to provide scale-able manageable access control to 23 major systems in use across the university. The Diagram below describes the integration. (FIM = Forefront identity management, SAP SLCM = student life cycle management, IDFS = Institutional data feed service).
The service was recently upgraded to version 2.2. The new functionality of real time provisioning is a welcome improvement, in particular access to team file-stores is much easier to setup and manage.
Usage summary
Average number of monthly user to service management interface: 80
Average number of monthly logins to service management interface: 550
Average number of monthly manual (i.e. done by a person) changes to groups: 570
Average number of monthly changes to access control groups: 14,000
The story of 2012
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