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Grouper Training - Admin - Client

Learn how to customize Grouper client settings to enhance user experience, modify LDAP operations, and host your client. Access comprehensive instructions for downloading, customizing, and hosting Grouper. Ideal for administrators seeking to optimize Grouper for their institution.

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Grouper Training - Admin - Client

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  1. Grouper Training - Admin - Client Chris Hyzer Internet2 University of Pennsylvania This work licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License.

  2. Contents Introduction Need to admin? Download Customize Defaults Usage ID terminology LDAP operations Misc operations Build and host

  3. Introduction 3

  4. Need to admin? • You do not need to administer the client • Administer if: • Make easier for users with URLs populated • Customize the usage • Institution-ify the IDs • Provide with canned LDAP operation(s) 4

  5. Download • Grouper download sitehttp://www.internet2.edu/grouper/software.html • Generally if you are customizing, you need the source release, not binary • Via Grouper Installer • Unzip 5

  6. Customize defaults • Edit grouper.client.properties to set default URL's for your environments 6

  7. Customize defaults (continued) • Edit grouper.client.properties to set discovery URL's for your institution 7

  8. Customize usage • Edit grouper.client.usage.txt • Use institution-specific terms 8

  9. Customize ID terminology • Edit grouper.client.properties • Customize the ID and Identifier 9

  10. Customize ID terminology (continued) • Commands can use new terminology 10

  11. Custom LDAP operations • Grouper client can do simple LDAP operations • For example, lookup by student ID, return netID 11

  12. Custom LDAP operations (continued) 12

  13. Misc operations (advanced) • Can bundle custom operations (Java) 13

  14. Build • Download the source package • Manually you need Java6, ant • Edit config files • grouper.client.properties • grouper.client.usage.properties • Run "ant" (default build) 14

  15. Host • Rename the built tarball • Host on one of your web servers • Link for your internal Grouper documentation site/wiki, e.g. https://myschool.edu/grouper/grouperClient.myschool-2.1.1.tar.gz 15

  16. Quiz • Click on the quiz link in the video description to reinforce your knowledge of this topic 16

  17. Thanks! • Further information: • Infosheets, mailing lists, wiki, downloads, etc.:www.internet2.edu/grouper • Grouper demo server:grouperdemo.internet2.edu/ • Grouper Online Training Home:spaces.internet2.edu/x/IIGfAQ This work licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License.

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