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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

Viewing JIRA logs online


Often, when an error occurs, you, as the administrator, will need to examine the JIRA log files to pinpoint the exact problem. Normally, in order to get access to the logs, you will need to either SSH into the server or download the file using an FTP client. In a locked-down environment, you will have to request this via your IT team, which could lead to a long turnaround time.

In this recipe, we will look at how you can access your JIRA log files from the JIRA UI, trail its contents online, and download them directly.

Getting ready

For this recipe, we need to have the JIRA Home Directory and DB Browser add-on installed. You can download it from the following link and install it with the UPM:

https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/info.renjithv.jira.plugins.sysadmin.homedirectorybrowser/server/overview

How to do it...

Perform the following steps to access the JIRA log files from the JIRA UI:

  1. Navigate to Administration | Add-ons | Home Directory Browser.

  2. Select the log...