Newcastle University Welcome Page
Newcastle University have now been using Grouper for nearly 3 years, with one of the first use cases being to use Grouper to manage access to the University's wiki service. The use of Grouper has grown significantly over the years, with the loading in of HR and student data vastly improving the level of delegation and access control we can now provide. Recent developments have seen us making use of Grouper's LDAPPC connector to provision groups from Grouper into the Active Directory.
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. It will also provide links to outputs from projects that Newcastle University have run which are focused around the use of Grouper.
Configuration
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.
LDAPPCNG Provisioning to the Active Directory - configuration details for the provisioning of groups and memberships to the Active directory, including group filtering.
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.
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 2010 Fall Meeting presentation (.pdf)