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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

Changing the default session timeout


By default, each active user session lasts for 5 hours (300 minutes) of idle time. This means that a user can log in and leave the computer for up to five hours and their browser session will still remain active.

In this recipe, we will look at how to change the default session timeout.

Getting ready

Since we will be making direct changes to a JIRA file, make sure you create backups for any files that are modified. This recipe will also require a restart of JIRA, so plan this during a time slot that will not affect your users.

How to do it...

Proceed with the following steps to change the session timeout settings in JIRA:

  1. Open the web.xml file from the JIRA_INSTALL/atlassian-jira/WEB-INF directory in a text editor.

  2. Locate the following lines, and change the value of session-timeout to the desired number in minutes:

            <session-config>
    
              <session-timeout>300</session-timeout>
    
            </session-config>
  3. Restart...