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COmanage is the Collaborative Organization Management Platform developed by the Internet2 Middleware Initiative. It is intended as a demonstration of the capabilities offered by tying together federated identity management (Shibboleth), groups management (Grouper), and (coming soon) privilege management (Signet), and into a cohesive support infrastructure for a variety of collaborative applications.

COmanage Information and Tour
For information about Collaborative Management Platforms and COmanage as a prototype example, see the list of resources below:

COmanage Guided Tour (QuickTime video ~14 minutes) NEW
FAQ
COmanage Screenshots
Presentation: Updates: Shibboleth, Federations, COmanage (PDF)
Ken Klingenstein, Internet2, November 2007
Presentation: VO and Internet2 Middleware (PDF)
Ken Klingenstein, Internet2, October 2007
Presentation: A Middleware Unified Field Theory (PDF)
Michael Gettes, Internet2, October 2007

Recreating the COmanage Demonstration Platform
Below are the integration components required to recreate the COmanage demonstration platform using:

MySQL5 as the database to hold the subject information
LDAP directory as the subject source for the collaborative applications
Grouper Groups Management Toolkit
LDAP Provisioning Connector (LDAPPC)
Collaboration tools such as:
- Asterisk open source telephony engine
- Bedework open source enterprise calendar system
- Confluence wiki
- DimDim open source web meeting service
- Signet privilege management
- Sympa open source mailing list manager
- WordPress open source blog
Configuration and Properties Files:
- *Zipped bundle of all files below*
- GROUPER_schema-export.sql - SQL to create Grouper DB (MySQL5)
- init.d.zip - /etc/init.d scripts for Confluence/Signet/Grouper and ldappc
- httpd-local.zip - httpd config files for Confluence/Signet/Grouper
- LDAPPC_log4j.properties - LDAPPC Log4j Properties
- LDAPPC_ldappc.xml - LDAPPC config file
- CONFLUENCE_seraph-config.xml - Confluence authN plugin config file
- CONFLUENCE_remoteUserAuthenticator.properties - Confluence authN plugin properties
- CONFLUENCE_atlassian-user.xml - Confluence user config file
- GROUPER_grouper.hibernate.properties - Grouper Hibernate Properties
- GROUPER_sources.xml - Sources XML (LDAP as the source)
- GROUPER_log4j.properties - Log4j Properties
- GROUPER_grouper.properties - Grouper Properties

Other collaboration management platforms:

IAMSuite (Identity and Access Management Suite) - A CMP funded by DEST (Department of Education, Science and Training) Australia under the MAMS and AAF projects.
UABgrid - The University of Alabama at Birmingham campus infrastructure for computation and collaboration in the Grid environment
G-FIV-O (Grouper to support Federated Identity for Virtual Organizations) - A JISC funded project based at Newcastle University to investigate the use of next generation access management tools to support the use of collaborative tools for distributed organizations

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