Newcastle University Welcome Page
Newcastle University has now been using Grouper for nearly 3 years, originally using it to manage access to our wiki service by using Grouper with shibboleth. The use of Grouper has grown significantly over the years, it is now used in conjunction with the Active Directory and also used to provision role based access groups to 3rd party applications.
This page will provide details of how we are using Grouper at Newcastle University, providing examples of configurations for certain the uses of some of the components of Grouper. and providing details of use cases for Grouper at Newcastle.
Rampart with the Grouper web services - details of the configuration involved in enabling rampart with Grouper.
Protecting Grouper Ui's with Shibboleth - configuration details to protect the main UI and Lite UI with shibboleth.
Use cases
As part of a JISC funded project at Newcastle University called the GRAND project we have documented a number of use cases where we have used Grouper as a solution for the delegation of access control to different resources and systems.
Reading List System - using Grouper with a newly developed system by the Library for the management of course leader reading lists.
Syllabus Plus Room Booking Service - an example of using Grouper with a 3rd party application to provide a role based access solution for Newcastle University's room booking system.
Newcastle University Wireless Access - using Grouper and the Active directory to manage access to the University's wireless network.
Videos
As part of project work over recent years we have produced a number of screencast videos to demonstrate the use of Grouper and also the use of the data integration tool Talend to further extend the capabilities of Grouper.
New - Structuring groups in Grouper - This video discusses how we structure groups within Grouper to improve and demonstrates how the structure works and improves the delegation of access control.http://research.ncl.ac.uk/idmaps/resources/DemoVideos/ExportDataFromGrouper2/ExportDataFromGrouper2.html
Provision access control groups from Grouper - This video discusses how we made use of the Open source data integration tool, Talend, to provision access control groups from Grouper into the Syllabus plus room booking system. This makes use of the outputs that were provided as part of the JISC funded IDMAPS project.
Presentations
Using Grouper: Newcastle University case studies - Internet2 Fall Meeting presentation (.pdf)