The Grouper Book is being "written" in sections off-line and being added to the Wiki in draft form. It aims to provide documentation on Grouper which can take people from beginner to expert. It supplements and summarizes existing documentation, simplifying and providing background where appropriate. Contributions and comments from the Grouper community are welcome!

Table of Contents

• Part 1 - Introductory Information - draft
  • What is Grouper and what can it do?
    • SQL database
    • Grouper API
    • Web Interface
    • Provisioning
  • How could Grouper be useful to me? Typical use-cases - blank
  • What is Internet2 and where does Grouper fit into it? - blank

• Part 2 - Grouper core
  • Case studies - blank
  • Setting up Grouper - blank
  • Exploring Grouper - blank
    • Find a folder or a group by navigation
    • Find an entity or a group by searching
    • Read a group's membership list
    • Add a member (entity or group) to a group
    • Remove a member from a group
    • Assign someone to be able to manage a group
    • Create a new group
    • Create a composite group
    • Create a new folder
    • Assign someone to be able to create new folders or groups within a parent folder
  • Moving to production
    • Key questions to consider
    • Installation of core components - Needs update
    • Development with a configure-deploy-test-review cycle - Needs update
    • Detailed planning prior to live deployment - blank
    • Deployment and testing in live - Needs update
    • Review - blank
  • Running in production - Needs update
  • Upgrading Grouper - Needs update

• Part 3 - Getting more from Grouper
  • Web service
  • Accessing data and provisioning from Grouper - blank
  • Provisioning to Grouper - blank
  • Other services - blank
  • Integrating Grouper - blank
  • Community contributions - blank

• Part 4 - Deep dive into Grouper
  • Inside Grouper - blank
  • High availability - blank
  • Developing for Grouper - blank