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JIRA 7 Administration Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Patrick Li
Book Image

JIRA 7 Administration Cookbook - Second Edition

By: Patrick Li

Overview of this book

JIRA 7 Administration Cookbook, Second Edition covers all the new major features that provide better prioritizing capabilities, enhanced visibility, and the ability to customize JIRA application to meet your needs. We start by upgrading your existing JIRA instance and working through tasks you can perform at the server level to better maintain it. We then delve deep into adapting JIRA to your organization's needs, starting with the visual elements of setting up custom forms to capturing important data with custom fields and screens, and moving on to ensuring data integrity through defining field behaviors. You'll gain insights into JIRA's e-mail capabilities, including managing outgoing e-mail rules and processing incoming e-mails for automated issue creation. The book contains tips and tricks that will make things easier for you as administrators, such as running scripts to automate tasks, getting easy access to logs, and working with tools to troubleshoot problems. The book concludes with a chapter on JIRA Service Desk, which will enable you to set up and customize your own support portal, work with internal teams to solve problems, and achieve optimized services with SLA.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
JIRA 7 Administration Cookbook - Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
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Preface

Integrating with LDAP for authentication only


In the previous recipe, we have looked at how to integrate JIRA with LDAP for authentication, users, and group management. Sometimes, you might need LDAP only for authentication, and to keep the group membership separate from LDAP for easy management.

In this recipe, we will look at how to integrate JIRA with LDAP only for authentication.

Getting ready

For this recipe, you will need to have an LDAP server up and running. You need to make sure that the JIRA server is able to access to the LDAP server. For more details, refer to the previous recipe, Integrating and importing users from LDAP.

How to do it...

Proceed with the following steps to integrate JIRA with an LDAP server exclusively for authentication:

  1. Navigate to Administration | User management | User Directories.

  2. Click on the Add Directory button, and select the Internal with LDAP Authentication option.

  3. Enter the LDAP server and schema settings. Most of the parameters are identical to creating...