Atlassian JIRA is a popular issue-tracking system used by many companies across the world. One of its strengths, unlike most other enterprise software, is it does not take days or weeks to install and implement, and it is very simple to upgrade and maintain.

We will assume that you, the reader, already know how to install a brand new JIRA. So, we will explore common administration tasks, such as upgrading and migrating your JIRA, looking at different options, from using the new automated upgrade utility provided by Atlassian to doing everything from scratch.

We will also look at some other neat tricks you can do as an administrator, such as resetting the admin password to get you out of sticky situations.