Hi,

OK, so that was the logic behind it!  Now I start to have all the dependencies 
clear.  Tested it and now everything makes sense.

Our deployment is pretty small though. Only 200 + personnel + some 2000 
students. But I’ll check the postgress option. The core seems to be configured 
by default towards the Postgress option.

I like the way you can augment Syncope if needed in a strongly typed language. 
Maybe we’ll even be able to remove the existing php-based “IDM”, which is more 
of a plain sync engine with no editable business logic capabilities what so 
ever. Not my production though…

It might be that we will end up with a *nix environment in the end.

Thanks a lot!

Regards,

       Mikael


From: Francesco Chicchiriccò [mailto:ilgro...@apache.org]
Sent: tiistai 28. helmikuuta 2017 17.54
To: user@syncope.apache.org
Subject: Re: Creating a virtual schema type ->empty type list

On 28/02/2017 16:26, Mikael Ekblom wrote:
Hi,

We are currently evaluating Syncopy as a candidate for our future IDM.

Hi,
glad to hear that :-)


We have some choices on the table and we are even considering writing our own 
IDM from scratch, but that is something I would like to avoid for practical 
reasons…☺ I think that would be inventing the wheel again nowadays. Our 
neighbor Helsinki University is implementing the same solution, so I thought 
that I will join the community regarding this one.

Anyhow, I have a working Syncopy 2.0.2 running on a Windows server 2012 R2 with 
mysql as the backbone. It is setup and configured via Apache Maven and is 
running with Tomcat 8.5 as the container.  Everything seems to be working.

I have managed to create the connector to our AD with the built in/shipped 
connector. I have also assigned a resource to that connector. Via that 
resource, we will pull information from our AD as an initial test. The 
connector reports that it works.

Very nice, indeed.

One note: while it is perfectly fine for evaluation, I would personally prefer 
PostgreSQL over MySQL / MariaDB, as some of my customers have been reporting 
complaints about search performances.
We have been constantly providing enhancements and fixes about that, but there 
have been simply no issues in all the PostgreSQL-based deployments - some of 
them being very large in numbers.


One problem though. I have been able to create all schema types but the virtual 
one. When I’m supposed to create a virtual schema type for attributes that 
Syncope will not own and set the ad-resource as the  de facto resource, the 
type drop down list for the virtual schema is empty and just states “Choose 
one”.

What am I missing here? Some schema definition topic missed somewhere? This is 
not a panic question, as we are just evaluating, but I figure that I might save 
some time to ask via the mailing list first. I do have my own abstractions to 
do for our own maybe to come IDM…☺


I am assuming you are using the Admin UI here.
If so, you need first to select a Resource (among the ones available) and then 
the Type combo will be populated with all the provision rules defined for that 
Resource.
Finally, you will need to provide the external attribute to which the new 
Virtual Schema's attributes will be linked.

More details available at:

https://syncope.apache.org/docs/reference-guide.html#virtual

HTH
Regards.


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