Hi all,

 

I’m interested in how other people do group management, whether they use FIM/MIM or other utilities (such as Grouper).  We’ve been using FIM and standard AD tools in combination, we use FIM mainly for automated / criteria based groups. We have a base set of standard groups for things like “everyone in department X” or “all staff” which we can use for security or emailing but they’re very generic. Recently we’ve had a request for much more granular groups for security and distribution groups. For example “all students on course X, studying module Y who started in academic year 2015”. With the number of courses and modules we have I can see this requiring 1000’s of groups.  Though FIM is capable of doing these I’m wondering if it is the right tool for the job as getting the groups set up (especially doing this in an automated way) doesn’t feel like an “out of the box” feature of FIM (what I mean by that is for example every time a new module appears in our student record system we automate the creation of a new group in FIM that is set up as a criteria based).  I know it is certainly possible by setting the XPath filter attribute etc but it does requires a fair bit of work. I’m also a little concerned about performance in the portal with 1000’s of criteria based groups, we’ve had performance issues in the past.

 

I’m wondering whether FIM is the right way to go or whether we might be best off looking at a different tool / solution.  I’m just interested in what other people are doing in this area.

 

Any feedback welcome.

 

KR

 

Steve

 

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Steve Akers

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