Comments

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  Guybrush Threepwood

  Mon, 14 May 2018, 7:34 PM

  Hi,
  
  with the new version of the plugin as of today (2018050400), the output is slighty different:
  
  Execute scheduled task: Synchronize cohorts from LDAP groups (local_ldap\task\group_sync_task)
  ... started 12:56:49. Current memory use 6.2Mo.
  ... used 1358 dbqueries
  ... used 48.352494955063 seconds
  Scheduled task complete: Synchronize cohorts from LDAP groups (local_ldap\task\group_sync_task)
  
  
  But the result is still the same: no cohort is created (or even synchronized for existing correlating one).
  
  
  
  
  If I run the script using --showsql parameter, I can see that it is enumerating the different AD Groups:
  
  SELECT * FROM mdl_cohort WHERE idnumber = ?
  [array (
  0 => 'GGM_S2M_ET_Classes_2HMI',
  )]
  --------------------------------
  Query took: 0.0034809112548828 seconds.
  
  
  
  
  What is going wrong?
  
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  Jan Derecz

  Tue, 22 May 2018, 6:46 PM

  Hi,
  
  Great plugin!
  
  but I've one problem. I use sync cohorts by attribute ("department"). I've user A with value "Dep1" for attribute "department" so he's add to cohorte "Dep1" - it's OK. I changed for this user value of department to "Dep2" and he shows in cohort Dep1 and Dep2
  
  Regards
  Jan
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  Charles Fulton

  Tue, 22 May 2018, 8:59 PM

  Hi Jan,
  
  That's unexpected. Are there any other users with the department attribute set to Dep1, or is User A the only one now?
  
  Charles
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  Jan Derecz

  Tue, 22 May 2018, 9:08 PM

  only one
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  Charles Fulton

  Tue, 22 May 2018, 9:11 PM

  Hi Jan,
  
  As there are no users in LDAP with the Dep1 attribute, the plugin isn't syncing the Dep1 cohort at all. If you manually remove User A he shouldn't be re-added.
  
  Charles
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  Jan Derecz

  Wed, 23 May 2018, 1:26 AM

  Ok, I think that I know the reason. If I use only cohorts creating from AD then DELETE FROM cohort_members before sync should resolve my problem?
  
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  Guybrush Threepwood

  Fri, 25 May 2018, 2:55 PM

  Still no change to sync cohorts from my AD groups... No cohorts are created and existing cohorts is not populated based on AD Groups... any help would be appreciated. I already asked in the related discussion: https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=160751.
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  Marlise Nauer

  Mon, 18 June 2018, 10:14 PM

  Hi Charles
  We use moodle 3.5 with your latest plugin.
  We have the same affect like Guybrush.
  Is there any solution for that problem?
  Best regards Marlise
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  Charles Fulton

  Mon, 18 June 2018, 10:33 PM

  Hi Marlise,
  
  I believe what Guybrush is experiencing is a configuration issue and not a problem with the plugin.
  
  Best,
  
  Charles
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  Zigor Astarbe

  Tue, 10 July 2018, 9:16 PM

  FEATURE REQUEST:
  Hi friends, don't know where to write to make a feature request for this plugin:
  - Is it possible to make an option to delete unused cohorts? (with no users in it).
  - Is it possible to make an option to detele unsynced cohorts? (cohorts with no group in active directory).
  
  thanks in advance,
  
  Zigor.
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  Charles Fulton

  Tue, 10 July 2018, 9:59 PM

  Hi Zigor, you may contribute feature requests at https://github.com/LafColITS/moodle-local_ldap/issues. Best, Charles.
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  KME Support

  Wed, 22 Aug 2018, 3:48 AM

  Hi Charles. I have a similar issue to guybrush. When i run the scheduled task i get the same output but no cohorts are synced.
  I guess the issue appeared since upgrade to Moodle 3.5 but we haven‘t made any change to the configuration since then, except we changed the ldap username attribute to UPN. I already tried changing it back to samAccount name but it still doesn‘t work.
  
  Any ideas to trace that issue?
  
  Thanks for any reply and your great work.
  
  Simon
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  Michel Rancourt

  Thu, 23 Aug 2018, 5:10 AM

  Hi Charles, since upgrade to 3.5 no cohorts updates and no cohorts creation. Same issues.
  
  Thank you
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  Charles Fulton

  Thu, 23 Aug 2018, 5:23 AM

  Folks, I'm not sure what to suggest. My institution is running on 3.5.1 and the plugin works. Our backend is OpenLDAP. I don't have an Active Directory environment to test against. If I had to venture a guess, the paged user queries to AD either aren't returning users or are returning them in an unexpected way.
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  KME Support

  Thu, 23 Aug 2018, 8:00 PM

  I was able to track down the issue on our side, and it was indeed NOT related to the Plugin, sorry for the confusion. Instead we had two different Problems with the Moodle LDAP Config and inconsistent Groups in Active Directory. Also since Moodle 3.5, only 100 cohorts are listed in the dropdown menu, which made our teachers first think, the cohorts where not created.
  
  Anyway on thing i thought would be great to have, was a debug parameter for the CLI Script sync_cohorts.php to display the results, that are fetched from LDAP. Since i had no clue what the plugin does in the background, i tried to output contents of variables by placing print_r() in different places in the code of the plugin. That's how i finally figured out, that the plugin was actually working correctly ...
  
  Once again thanks for your work!