LDN - Luminis Developer Network

There are many reasons to join Northeastern University's Information Services team: awesome technology, excellent salaries, summer Fridays, generous paid time off, and tuition benefit programs to name a few!

The Identity Services Specialist is responsible for the operation and support of the technology, services, and processes of the Identity Management and Provisioning solutions at the University. This includes ensuring the enterprise directory and portal services are administered and maintained in a manner that supports University goals.

Hi All,
Our Luminis Portal is extrememly slow and appears to hangs when the Banner Oracle PROD database Host server (not just the instance) is shutdown down.
If we shutdown the Banner Oracle PROD database instance, the Oracle Listener and/or Self-Service Banner on fmw11g all other portal funtionality is unaffected.
Our release levels are:
LP 4.2.1.78
Oracle DB 11.2.0.1.0
fmw 11.1.1.1.4
Banner 8.4
I have an open SR with SungardHE however I've been told "There really isn't much we can do when the backend is yanked from the external systems which will cause a thread pile up....
".

I would like to know how schools are dealing with resetting passwords if a student forgets it.

I was going to write a more long-winded post about the challenges we've run into trying to build useful portlets in a Luminis 5 environment, and ask how others are getting around them, but I thought this would be more fun (and shorter).

Here's the challenge: write a portlet for Luminis 5 using ONLY the functionality described in the JSR-168/286 specifications, which does the following:

1) renders a HELP mode

2) displays the user's login name

3) indicates if the user has the "Student" role

Luminis V asks for the Google Administrator ID and password on the Luminis External Services Configuration form during installation. We just found out that this admin ID & password are stored in plain text. Does this ring any alarm bells with anyone else? I would love to hear from schools who are live with Platform V on how they have handled this?

I've found a growing need in our portal recently to run certain checks when a user first logs in. One of them is a field in Banner indicating whether or not the user has complete address/contact information and the other is a AD password expiration warning that tells them how many days they have until their password expires. Adding one check for the address was easy enough using jQuery and JSP - use jQuery to execute a AJAX call to the JSP which queried Banner and returned a message if necessary. But now how do we also run a similar function for password expiration?

Hello, all!

I'd be happy to see you all at Summit this year, and happier still if we get a few more contestants. Right now we have 3 and I'd like 5. Are you going to Summit and want to take the stage? Let me know.

Here's the rest if the announcement:

Luminis Idol 2012 at Summit! Vegas, Baby!
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Another year, another Summit, another chance to see the best and brightest demonstrate what they've been able to achieve with Luminis.  What better place than Vegas to show off their Luminosity!

Attending?
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Over the break, I reinstalled our production portal environment since its phsyical server was desupported as well as our OS (RH 3).

Hi all

Does any other school running luminis 4.2.3.34 have troubles with the groups? Not so long ago, some students complainning about not being able to access certain group, we started to notice that some groups could not be accessed using the Group Index Function but we can clearly saw them in the DB. Even adding the students in the group in the GT_GROUP table, they still could not see the group in their account!

If your school had the similiar issue and solved, care to provide any clues?? Thanks!

Alan

Sentari Technologies is currently seeking Banner Database Administrators with high availability (RAC) support experience with sufficient practiced knowledge in Oracle and Banner installations/upgrades/patch applications.  
 
Successful candidates will have database support knowledge of other Datatel+SGHE products like DegreeWorks, Workflow, FormFusion, Operational Data Store or Banner Document Management Suite.
 
This consulting assignment will be ON SITE at a customer location in the southeast U.S. Weekly travel to and from is expected and all travel and incidentals are covered.