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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
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Integrating with Atlassian Crowd


In the previous recipe, Integrating with LDAP for authentication only, we looked at how to integrate JIRA to an LDAP server for user and group information. Besides using LDAP, another popular option is to use Crowd, which is available at https://www.atlassian.com/software/crowd/overview.

Crowd is a user identity management solution from Atlassian, and JIRA supports Crowd integration out-of-the-box. With Crowd, you can also set up a single sign-on option with other Crowd-enabled applications.

Getting ready

For this recipe, you will need to have a Crowd server up and running. You need to make sure that the JIRA server is able to access the Crowd server without any glitches, for example, it is not blocked by firewalls.

At a minimum, you will also need to have the following information:

  • The Crowd server

  • Credentials for the registered application in Crowd for

How to do it...

Proceed with the following steps to integrate JIRA with Crowd for user management:

  1. Navigate to...