#8165 NORM Not Tri: Identity Manager needs to partition school

[Zarro Boogs per Child]

#8165: Identity Manager needs to partition school
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 Reporter:  wad            |         Owner:  martin.langhoff
     Type:  enhancement    |        Status:  new            
 Priority:  normal         |     Milestone:  Not Triaged    
Component:  school server  |       Version:  not specified  
 Keywords:  registration   |   Next_action:  design         
 Verified:  0              |     Blockedby:                 
 Blocking:                 |  
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 In the case of a school which is larger than the presence server is
 capable of supporting at this time, we will need to partition the school
 into "sections" which can be handled by a single presence server.

 This can easily be done by the Identity Manager.  While round-robbin would
 suffice, it would leave students in the same classroom without the ability
 to collaborate.

 I suggest that the Identity Manager take a file with serial numbers
 divided into groups, and use this information to group laptops onto
 presence servers in a more intelligent manner.   For example, all the
 students in the first and second grade could be on the same presence
 server, with the third and fourth grades on a different server.

 The actual presence servers could be run on virtualized servers on the
 same machine, or on separate machines.   The backup server could also be
 distributed using this mechanism, although it may be preferable to
 concentrate all backup on a single server.

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Ticket URL: <http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/8165>
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