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JIRA 7 Administration Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Patrick Li
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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

Upgrading JIRA with an installer


In this recipe, we will show you how to upgrade your JIRA instance with the standard JIRA installer.

Getting ready

As the JIRA installer is only available for standalone installations on Windows and Linux, we will run you through the installer on Windows for this recipe:

  • Check the upgrade notes for any special instructions as well as the target JIRA version to make sure you can perform a direct upgrade.

  • Make sure you have a valid JIRA license.

  • Verify whether your current host environment is compatible with the target JIRA version. This includes the Java version, database, and operating system.

  • Verify whether your operating environment is compatible with the target's JIRA version, specifically the browser requirements.

  • Make sure that the add-ons you are using are compatible with the new version of JIRA.

    Note

    You can use the universal plugin manager's JIRA update check utility to check for add-on compatibility.

  • Download the installer binary for your target JIRA version.

How to do it...

Upgrade your JIRA system with the installer using the following steps:

  1. Take your current JIRA offline, for example, by running the stop-jira.bat script.

  2. Back up the JIRA database with its native backup utility.

  3. Launch the installer and select the Upgrade an existing JIRA installation option.

  4. Now, select the directory where the current JIRA is installed:

  5. Check the backup JIRA home directory option and click on the Next button.

    Note

    If your JIRA_HOME directory is big, you might want to manually back it up or remove some of the cache and tmp folders as it would take a long time for the installer to back these up.

  6. Review the upgrade checklist and click on the Upgrade button.

  7. Wait for the installer to complete the upgrade process. Once the upgrade is complete, the installer will automatically launch JIRA.

  8. Update add-ons once JIRA successfully starts.

The installer will detect and provide you with a list of customized files in the JIRA_INSTALL directory, which you will need to manually copy after the upgrade.

See also

If you cannot use the installer to upgrade JIRA, refer to the Upgrading JIRA manually recipe.