Luminis & Active Directory
We are currently planning on making a shift to Active Directory in the future. AD would be the authoritative directory.
We are currently on 3.3.3.X and will be moving to 4 soon.
Is there anyone who has sync'd a Luminis user and password changes into Active Directory.
Banner - Active Directory synch
If you have Banner as system of records then Sungard HE does have service that would allow keeping Banner person data synchronized with Active Directory. It perform following functions
1. Create / update people information into Active Directory using Batch and near real time mode
2. Create MS Exchange accounts (supports 2003 and 2007)
3. Creates shared folders assign as map drive
4. Apply membership objects to people
5. Execute batch file
and many more functions....
This is tested mechanism and running at various client sites (please contact your account manager for this service)
Thanks,
Makarand Kulkarni
Is there any documentation
Is there any documentation out there regarding how to implement this?
ADAP Documentation
We at Durham College are also interested in implementing the Banner-Active Directory ADAP process. Currently we are provisioning new accounts to Active Directory using VB. We would like to remove the VB part and take the Banner Events and have ADAP process them. My Manager was at an SCT conference and was told that ADAP was something that could be implemented for free from SCT. Is this true? If it is correct I would love to know where to get the code and documentation. I have been searching for the last few days for any documentation on this process but have not found anything.
Any information would be helpful.
Thanks in advance
Banner - Active Directory Synch
What service in SungardHE allows Banner accounts to be synchronized with Active Directory?
Thanks,
Bernie Durfee
We do Active Directory Sync via a custom Message Broker Adaptor
We provision (and deprovision) accounts in Novell's eDirectory and Active Directory via a custom message broker adaptor. (Setup as an outgoing HTTP client on the message broker.) we are in the process of transitioning from eDir to AD. For now we provision in both.
All of the events are passed by the message broker as raw IMS compliant XML to the adaptor and then processed by it. We use the same program in batch mode to process the output of ICGORLDI.
We wrote our adaptor in perl, but you could do it in any language that can be called as a CGI and that has decent XML processing libraries (we use SAX)
By using the events we get basically real time processing. Works very nicely albeit at a fairly high complexity level to program and setup initially.
Since we are a community college, students can apply online, be accepted and have their AD and eDir accounts created all in one step. They can then register for classes via SSB in Luminis using the EAS account and password, and then walk into a computer lab and login. (All in less than 15 minutes.)
Are you willing to share the code in your perl adaptor
I very much appreciate the information you share in your comment above. Our school has indentified that we need to move off a very manual and outdated system of provisioning student Novell accounts (eDirectory). There are plans to move to Active Directory eventually.
We have the Luminis Message Broker 4.1 installed, Banner Student System soon to go live by summer etc.
What we lack is any expertise in building custom adaptors for the Message Broker. Would you be willing to share your code for your perl adaptor?
Thanks for considering it.
I would love to get a copy of the PERL adapter
We are migrating from Plus to Banner and we have something written in PERL to popluate AD. I would love to get a head start on creating the same thing in Banner.
don.carlton@citadel.edu