Re: [syncope-users] Digest for syncope-users@googlegroups.com - 6 Messages in 2 Topics

[deepika panwar]

Hi,

Screen shots are attached with the mail.

Windows connector is an operating system connector used to provision/reconcile users to Windows account ( OS not having AD to manage users). Users provisioned to Windows account can login to that system/server with the provisioned credentials.

Similar connectors are available for other OS like unix,linux etc..for other IDM tools.

Regards,

Deepika

On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 11:40 AM, <syncop...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

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• About Syncpe Demo and tomcat [4 Updates]
• Digest for syncop...@googlegroups.com - 3 Messages in 1 Topic [2 Updates]

 About Syncpe Demo and tomcat

Natan <nsa...@gmail.com> Feb 08 02:54AM -0800  

Hi,
 
It's a couple of days I'm trying to play with Syncope starting from
the demo downloadable from http://wiki.syncope-idm.org/index.php?title=GettingStarted/Demo
 
I was able to propagate events from the console to the connected
systems, paying particular attention to the passwords. In my opinion
there is a lack of documentation about the difference between the
Propagation and Synchronization task. I had to figure out the meaning
by myself. Starting from scratch it is not so clear that the
propagation panel is populated automatically as result of connectors
events or rest calls to the engine.
I would suggest to build a vmx instead of an ova, too. Because it's
easy to find places where they are using VMware instead of VirtualBox.
Moreover, converting an ova to a vmx it is not a procedure so simple/
fast. If you have to do it, the only way to obtain a converted image
is to make use of --lax option and compile by yourself the VMware
tools.
 
However I'm writing this message only to inform that if you restart
the tomcat shipped in the demo using /etc/init.d/tomcat restart it
will not work. You have to modify the tomcat script as described here
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tomcat6/+bug/632554
 
inserting -p "$CATALINA_PID"
 
Hope it helps


 

"Francesco Chicchiriccò" <chicch...@gmail.com> Feb 08 01:17PM +0100  

On 08/02/2012 11:54, Natan wrote:
> by myself. Starting from scratch it is not so clear that the
> propagation panel is populated automatically as result of connectors
> events or rest calls to the engine.
 
Hi Natan,
first of all, thanks for your feedback.
 
About explaining what's the difference between propagation and
synchronization, there is a theory draft at [1].
I agree that something more practical (like as you are writing above)
should be added to the getting started demo wiki page.
 
I've opened an issue for this [2].
 
> fast. If you have to do it, the only way to obtain a converted image
> is to make use of --lax option and compile by yourself the VMware
> tools.
 
There is no doubt that VMWare is more adopted than VirtualBox: however,
VirtualBox is freely available and can be easily downloaded for a quick
demo :-)
 
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tomcat6/+bug/632554
 
> inserting -p "$CATALINA_PID"
 
> Hope it helps
 
I've opened an issue for this [3].
 
Again, thanks for your interest in Syncope!
 
Regards.
 
[1]
http://wiki.syncope-idm.org/index.php?title=ConnectorInstancesAndResources
[2] http://code.google.com/p/syncope/issues/detail?id=286
[3] http://code.google.com/p/syncope/issues/detail?id=287
 
--
Francesco Chicchiriccò
 
"Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy
is about telescopes." (E. W. Dijkstra)


 

Natan <nsa...@gmail.com> Feb 08 07:34AM -0800  

So, I tried to extend the demo in order to achieve an interesting
administrative user experience. I defined a synchronization task for
the mysql db. Unfortunately the SyncopeDemo db is not ready to publish
events so I ran these script on mysql
 
mysql -p
password
 
use syncopedemo
 
ALTER TABLE `user` ADD `modifyNumber` BIGINT DEFAULT 0;
 
DELIMITER //
 
CREATE TRIGGER trackmodifies_user BEFORE UPDATE ON user
FOR EACH ROW
BEGIN
SET NEW.modifyNumber = OLD.modifyNumber + 1;
END
//
 
DELIMITER ;
 
exit
 
Just to have an autoupdate where I can do a synchronization check
 
It should work fine (I suggest to avoid the timestamps, connid seems
to refuse what is not a "long" java type as synchronization column)
 
I modified the JDBC connector too, on the properties panel
 
Change Log Column (Sync) = modifyNumber
 
Trying the synchronization task, syncope says SUCCESS but on the
details I can read
Failed to update: UPDATE FAILURE (id/ name): 201/ test02
UPDATE FAILURE (id/ name): 401/ test04
UPDATE FAILURE (id/ name): 351/ test03
 
The core logs say
 
15:48:02.325 ERROR org.syncope.core.scheduling.AbstractJob - Could not
update user test02
java.lang.NullPointerException: null
at
org.syncope.core.rest.data.AbstractAttributableDataBinder.fill(AbstractAttributableDataBinder.java:
482) ~[AbstractAttributableDataBinder.class:na]
at
org.syncope.core.rest.data.UserDataBinder.update(UserDataBinder.java:
277) ~[UserDataBinder.class:na]
....
 
It seems I am facing an issue like this one:
http://code.google.com/p/syncope/issues/detail?id=265
 
Indeed the demo vm is a 0.7 version.
 
If I am right, is there any best practice to update the demo to the
last release? Should I only rerun maven archetype / clean / package?
 
Please, can you help me in getting through this procedure? It would be
very great to reuse all the stuff you have already packaged in the
demo.
 
Thanks in advance
 
On Feb 8, 1:17 pm, Francesco Chicchiriccò <chicchiri...@gmail.com>
wrote:


 

"Francesco Chicchiriccò" <chicch...@gmail.com> Feb 08 04:46PM +0100  

On 08/02/2012 16:34, Natan wrote:
> the mysql db. Unfortunately the SyncopeDemo db is not ready to publish
> events so I ran these script on mysql
> [...]
 
All this sounds very good: you seem to start getting into Syncope ;-)
 
> If I am right, is there any best practice to update the demo to the
> last release? Should I only rerun maven archetype / clean / package?
 
Just find <syncope.version> property in your parent pom.xml and put
0.7.1 instead of 0.7, then rebuild and redeploy.
> very great to reuse all the stuff you have already packaged in the
> demo.
 
> Thanks in advance
 
You're welcome :-)
 
--
Francesco Chicchiriccò
 
"Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy
is about telescopes." (E. W. Dijkstra)


 

 Digest for syncop...@googlegroups.com - 3 Messages in 1 Topic

deepika panwar <panwar....@gmail.com> Feb 08 04:01PM +0530  

Hi,
 
PFB the respective screen shots.
 
One more thing, I also need to work on Windows connector but I could not
find any external resource bundle for it.
What needs to be done in case its not available out of the box?
 
Regards,
Deepika Panwar
 


 

Fabio Martelli <fabio.m...@gmail.com> Feb 08 12:55PM +0100  

Il giorno 08/feb/2012, alle ore 11.31, deepika panwar ha scritto:
 
> Hi,
 
> PFB the respective screen shots.
 
Hi Deepika,
sorry but I cannot find the screenshot ... can you send them again?
 
> One more thing, I also need to work on Windows connector but I could not find any external resource bundle for it.
> What needs to be done in case its not available out of the box?
 
What do you mean with Windows connector?
 
Regards,
F.
 


 

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