[midPoint] [External] Re: Ellucian Banner

Patrick Landry patrick.landry at louisiana.edu
Mon Jul 22 21:49:41 CEST 2019


While we are not using midpoint or Grouper (yet) we are a Banner campus 
and would be interested in any conversations concerning midpoint, Grouper, 
and Banner integrations. 

----- Original Message -----

> From: "Matthew Brookover" <mbrookov at mines.edu>
> To: "midPoint General Discussion" <midpoint at lists.evolveum.com>
> Sent: Monday, July 22, 2019 12:20:30 PM
> Subject: Re: [midPoint] [External] Re: Ellucian Banner

> Hi Keith, Radovan, I led the Banner Integration working group that was part
> of the InCommon Campus Success Program. We looked at various schemas that
> had been developed in house at several schools. Every one of them met the
> needs of that school and all were different. I believe there were several
> efforts to use the scripted SQL connector with the custom schemas. We did
> work on a list of common attributes, but did not get too deep into details
> like application decision codes, employee classification codes, course
> enrollment, or any of the dozens of other attributes that Banner tracks for
> students, employees and guests.

> We also looked at using Ethos. I did a demo of Ethos feeding a user to
> midPoint at Global Summit 2018. There is interest in developing a driver for
> Ethos. Unfortunately, only a couple of schools had a program to deploy Ethos
> so not much progress has been made.

> I am working on deploying Grouper and midPoint with yet another schema from a
> Banner database and will be using the scripted SQL connector. I would be
> working on an Ethos connector to midPoint, but the group that maintains
> Banner here at Mines has not deployed Ethos. Right now my focus in on
> Grouper, in a few months I will turn my attention back to midPoint.

> As far as I know, there is no single generic connector from Banner to
> midPoint and Grouper. I do think that it is possible to develop one but that
> effort has not gotten much traction.

> Is there interest in setting up a session on Zoom to discuss Banner, midPoint
> and Grouper?

> I gather there is a similar discussion on one of the educause mailing lists.
> Keith Hazelton at internet2 mentioned the discussion at the API/entity registry
> team meeting. I will let Keith know about this thread.

> Matt Brookover
> Colorado School of Mines

> > On Jul 22, 2019, at 8:51 AM, Radovan Semancik <
> > radovan.semancik at evolveum.com
> > > wrote:
> 

> > Hello,
> 

> > As far as I know there is no working Banner connector yet. There is an
> > Internet2/InCommon working group that is focusing on this topic:
> > https://spaces.at.internet2.edu/display/TIERCSP/Identity+Onboarding+with+Banner
> 

> > I hope that sooner or later there will be a working Banner connector.
> > Therefore I have created a dummy page that points interested users to the
> > relevant information:
> 
> > https://wiki.evolveum.com/display/midPoint/Banner+Connector
> 

> > --
> 
> > Radovan Semancik
> 
> > Software Architect evolveum.com
> 

> > On 7/19/19 6:38 PM, Keith LeValley wrote:
> 

> > > Quick question and feel free to contact me directly for follow-up.
> > 
> 

> > > Has a driver for Midpoint to Ellucian Banner been created yet? I know a
> > > working group with Internet2 and the TIER program was setup and I have
> > > read
> > > much of the notes from that group, but I wasn't sure where that left off
> > > or
> > > if this is still being worked on. I am not sure if anyone from the
> > > original
> > > working group would be able to provide a good answer? Ideally if a driver
> > > has been or is being worked on that would integrate with Ethos that would
> > > be
> > > ideal (or whatever the new integration tool is if Ethos is no longer a
> > > thing).
> > 
> 

> > > --
> > 
> 
> > > Keith LeValley
> > 
> 
> > > Identity Services Architect , Davenport University
> > 
> 
> > > klevalley2 at davenport.edu
> > 
> 

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Patrick Landry 
Director, UCSS 
University of Louisiana at Lafayette 
patrick.landry at louisiana.edu 
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