diff --git a/ps2grouper.adoc b/ps2grouper.adoc index 1f41622..b753455 100644 --- a/ps2grouper.adoc +++ b/ps2grouper.adoc @@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ contractors, anybody who you can't really say is an employee of the university, The Directory Manager is is what they call every five minutes or so for any new jobs and associations that are available. And then also, once a week, we say, Okay, cycle through and give me everybody so that it can do a full synchronization. And then there's just a very simple query over to Peoplesoft Finance, really. Only thing that I am cares about from -our Finance installation is what are the department names? So it gets members department members that are associated with jobs or associations or student status. But it it's nice to have a friendly name to associate with those department members, and so it retrieves those friendly names from our our Finance install. +our Finance installation is what are the department names? So it gets members department members that are associated with jobs or associations or student status. But it's nice to have a friendly name to associate with those department members, and so it retrieves those friendly names from our our Finance install. And then Directory Manager is responsible for its own OpenLDAP instance running kind of locally to that application, and then we use the built-in open all that sync where to? To? To to that out to our our large open installation, and then finally, That's where Grouper can run. It's Grouper loader jobs and retrieve things from LDAP. So just like we run Grouper loader jobs for databases. We've got these that run directly against our open laptop installation, and that gives group or, @@ -49,15 +49,16 @@ proxies to other data that people might have access to because of the roles that image::images/uncInfMat.jpg[Informatica path] Instead of having a separate role structure for the data warehouse the people self-security folks would rather just replicate those roles that they have, and people solve the Grouper, and then ! It can be queried, or L. That can be queried -to retrieve that information about those roles. We also do use this for some special group that our Hcm. People need to keep track of, anyway. So an example that I off the top of my head is who's in a hipaa-related department? So are you in a hip a covered entity? -! Because there's a nber of of things that want to know that, for example, our our zoom installation needs to know if you're if or not, because it turns on and off. You know, certain capabilities inside of zoom -and . So +to retrieve that information about those roles. We also do use this for some special group that our Hcm. People need to keep track of, anyway. So an example that I off the top of my head is who's in a HIPAA-related department? So are you in a HIPAA covered entity? +Because there's a number of of things that want to know that, for example, our our zoom installation, needs to know if you're if or not, because it turns on and off. You know, certain capabilities inside of zoom. +So all of those are published. A group or many of them are then published to that to be consed. But this gives group or some knowledge about internal people, self-security information as well as those kind of edge case groups that we haven't come across a friendly, her way to to get replicated out for consption to be a group, -and I should have said this before. But but Please interrupt with questions as we go along, because I know these paths are are fairly divergent. +I should have said this before, but please interrupt with questions as we go along, because I know these paths are fairly divergent. -So it's a really, really quick one about the diagram that you're showing that Are the arrows correct? Are you taking data from and from Fromatica and sending it to people talk? Or is it the other way? -I debated which way to point these arrows, but this is our SQL query, so Informatica that is, reaching out to the Peoplesoft with the SQL query and pulling data back. +Q: So it's a really, really quick one about the diagram that you're showing that Are the arrows correct? Are you taking data from and from Fromatica and sending it to people talk? Or is it the other way? + +A: I debated which way to point these arrows, but this is our SQL query, so that is Informatica reaching out to Peoplesoft with the SQL query and pulling data back. The third flow is just direct Grouper loader jobs that people saw from that group or a queries people. Probably the courses and course roles are the main use of these queries.