Firstly, let me pass on my team's appreciation for the excellent software package that is Syncope. We love working with the combination of easy GUI and powerful backend.
What we are trying to achieve with Syncope is the complete automation of creating Active Directory accounts, home drives and email boxes for our students at the moment they are registered for a course at our university. We've gotten to the stage where Syncope is sucking in the user records from the database and propagating the user to Active Directory via the connid.ad connector. Manually created roles are also propagating properly. Home drives and email boxes will be handled by Powershell scripts called via the connid.cmd connector. Our current issue seems simple, but I can't quite figure out how to import roles from the database and also link the roles to the users using the database as the source. We use AD groups based on our internal subject code and add students to each group based on what subjects they are registered for. We have three tables in the staging database storing student details, subject details and the link data between student and subject. Today, I found out that the db.table connector only supports account creation and not role creation. What would be the simplest way to suck the role definition from the database into Syncope? We want to avoid manual creation of the role via the GUI or automation via calling the REST interface as we are trying to get rid of custom-written, unsupported data transformation programs and replace them with a managed solution like Syncope. Thanks, Bruce Smith Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University ________________________________ NOTICE: Please note that this eMail, and the contents thereof, is subject to the standard NMMU eMail disclaimer which may be found at: http://www.nmmu.ac.za/disclaimer/email.htm
