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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

Setting up a single sign-on with Crowd


In previous recipes, we have looked at different options for JIRA to use external centralized user repositories, including Crowd. One of the advantages of integrating JIRA with Crowd is its Single sign-on (SSO) abilities.

Web-based applications integrated with Crowd are able to participate in an SSO environment; so, when a user is logged in to one application, he/she will be automatically logged in to all other applications.

If you are looking for single sign-on in a Windows environment, where users will be automatically logged on to applications with their workstation, read the next recipe, Setting up a Windows domain single sign-on.

Getting ready

Before you can set up SSO with Crowd, you first need to integrate JIRA with Crowd for user management. Refer to the Integrating with Atlassian Crowd recipe for details.

If you have already integrated JIRA with Crowd, you will need to have the following information:

  • The application name assigned to JIRA in Crowd...