[ARCHIVED] Luminis Message Broken

[mmitchell]

Esteemed Admins,

We are a medium-sized university that uses Banner and the Luminis Message Broker to interact with Canvas.

The LMB takes Banner events (e.g. student enrollments, course drops, faculty enrollments, course changes, etc.) and pushes them into Canvas in real time.

At least this is how it should work. We've had to manually push enrollments this semester, drop students, update course rosters, change course names, etc. because our LMB is moody and depressed. It sits on YouTube all day and watches sloth videos.

Has anyone out there created or found an alternative to the Luminis Message Broker for Canvas? If not, is anyone interested in joining forces and creating one?

I might be too naive to understand the scope of a project like this, but better living through automation, right?

[kona]

 @mmitchell , hats off to you keeping a sense of humor about things.

We aren't using Banner (we use Jenzabar) and have written our own code/programs that allow us to integrate our systems and automatically keep things updated (enrollments, drops, faculty enrollments, etc). So yes, I'm pretty sure it's possible to do what you are suggesting outside of LMB. Hopefully someone here will have a good solution, but you might also consider sharing this in the Canvas Developers​ group. They are the programmers and ones who actually do the coding/programming for back end Canvas stuff.

Good luck!

[mmitchell]

Thanks Kona. Very happy to hear that your institution wrote it's own system integration between Jenzabar and Canvas. It means it is possible. And I'll take your suggestion and post this in the developer's group as well.

[Robbie_Grant]

 @mmitchell ,

We are giving the Canvas Admins area a little bit of love (especially questions that are really, really old) and just want to check in with you.  This will also bring this question new attention. 

Were you able to find an answer to your question? I am going to go ahead and mark this question as answered because there hasn't been any more activity in a while so I assume that you have the information that you need. If you still have a question about this or if you have information that you would like to share with the community, by all means, please do come back and leave a comment.  Also, if this question has been answered by one of the previous replies, please feel free to mark that answer as correct.

Robbie

[kschneider25]

Oh my, this statement has me laughing, "because our LMB is moody and depressed. It sits on YouTube all day and watches sloth videos."  Our LMBs might be cousins!  Our LMB works but takes unplanned vacations.

[wre0001]

We wrote our own in Java(servlets running on tomcat) for several reasons:

1. We needed to sync from two different SIS's and only one was Banner.

2. Kept us from having to open a hole in our firewall to our LMB from amazon's ever changing range of ip's.

3. Gave us flexibility to inject business logic in the sync.  For example, consider some one-off's enrolled in some courses/sections based on non-standard criteria.

4. Allowed us to inject business logic into the grade passback process.

Took a one person team about three months to get it up and running.  Another month later on adding grade passback.  So four months total.  With the odd tweak every now and then, perhaps 1-2 tweaks per year.

-William