Setting Properties and Options on Startup

This page describes how to set Java properties and options on startup for JIRA.

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Linux

To Configure System Properties in Linux Installations,

  1. From <jira-install>/bin (or <Tomcat-home>/bin for JIRA WAR installations), open setenv.sh.
  2. Find the section JVM_SUPPORT_RECOMMENDED_ARGS=
  3. Refer to the list of parameters below.

(info) Add all parameters in a space-separated list, inside the quotations.

Windows (starting from .bat file)

To Configure System Properties in Windows Installations When Starting from the .bat File,

  1. From <jira-install>/bin (or <Tomcat-home>/bin for JIRA WAR installations), open setenv.bat.
  2. Find the section set JVM_SUPPORT_RECOMMENDED_ARGS=
  3. Refer to the list of parameters below.

(info) Add all parameters in a space-separated list, inside the quotations.

Windows Service

There are two ways to configure system properties when starting Running JIRA as a Service, either via command line or in the Windows Registry

Setting Properties for Windows Services via Command Line

Setting Properties for Windows Services via Command Line

  1. Identify the name of the service that JIRA is installed as in Windows ( Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Services ):

    (info) In the above example, the SERVICENAME is: JIRA231112155942
  2. Open the command window from Start >> Run >> type in 'cmd' >> Enter
  3. cd to the bin directory of your JIRA Installation Directory (or the bin directory of your Tomcat installation if your are running JIRA WAR).
  4. Run:

    tomcat7w //ES//%SERVICENAME%
    

    (info) In the above example, it would be tomcat7w //ES//JIRA231112155942

  5. Click on the Java tab to see the list of current start-up options:
  6. Append any new option on its own new line by adding to the end of the existing Java Options. Refer to the list of parameters below.

 

Setting Properties for Windows Services via the Windows Registry

In some versions of Windows, there is no option to add Java variables to the service. In these cases, you must add the properties by viewing the option list in the registry.

To Set Properties for Windows Services via the Windows Registry,

  1. Go to Start >> Run, and run "regedit32.exe".
  2. Find the Services entry:
    32-bit: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE >> SOFTWARE >> Apache Software Foundation >> Procrun 2.0 >> JIRA
    64-bit: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE >> SOFTWARE >> Wow6432Node >> Apache Software Foundation >> Procrun 2.0 >> JIRA
  3. To change existing properties, especially increasing Xmx memory, double-click the appropriate value.
  4. To change additional properties, double-click options.
  5. Refer to the list of parameters below. Enter each on a separate line.

Verifying Your Settings

To verify what settings are in place, check the <jira-home>/logs/atlassian-jira.log or catalina.out file. A section in the startup appears like this:

JVM Input Arguments : -Djava.util.logging.config.file=/usr/local/jira/conf/logging.properties -XX:MaxPermSize=256m -Xms256m -Xmx384m -Djava.awt.headless=true -Datlassian.standalone=JIRA -Dorg.apache.jasper.runtime.BodyContentImpl.LIMIT_BUFFER=true -Dmail.mime.decodeparameters=true -Djava.util.logging.manager=org.apache.juli.ClassLoaderLogManager -Djava.endorsed.dirs=/usr/local/jira/endorsed -Dcatalina.base=/usr/local/jira -Dcatalina.home=/usr/local/jira -Djava.io.tmpdir=/usr/local/jira/temp

This display is also available by Viewing your System Information.

List of Startup Parameters

Memory Property

Notes

Related Pages

-Xmx
-Xms
XX:MaxPermSize

These properties are pre-existing. See related pages for instructions.

Increasing JIRA Memory

-XX:+PrintGCTimeStamps -verbose:gc -Xloggc:gc.log -XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError

Set these for Garbage Collection tuning.

Troubleshoot Jira Server performance with GC logs
Analyze OutofMemory errors in Jira server with Heap Dumps

-agentlib:yjpagent=onexit=memory,dir=/path/to/write/snapshots

 

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Mail Property

Notes

Related Pages

-Datlassian.mail.senddisabled
-Datlassian.mail.fetchdisabled
-Datlassian.mail.popdisabled

Set to 'true' to disable mail. In Linux setenv.sh, there is a pre-existing flag to uncomment.

Migrating JIRA to Another Server
Notifications Are Issued for Incorrect Jira Issues

-Dmail.debug

If set to "true", logs statements related to mail

Configuring JIRA's SMTP Mail Server to Send Notifications
Creating Issues and Comments from Email

-Dmail.mime.decodetext.strict

 

Unable to Decode Mail Subject or Body when Creating Issue From Email

-Dmail.imap.auth.plain.disable
-Dmail.imaps.auth.plain.disable

 

IMAP setup fails with AUTHENTICATE Failed error in logs in Jira server when using OAuth

-Dmail.imap.starttls.enable

 

'javax.mail.MessagingException No login methods supported' Due to IMAP over SSL

-Dmail.mime.decodeparameters

Sets mail handler to work correctly with emails from RFC 2231-compliant mail clients.

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-Dmail.smtp.localhost

 

Problems Sending Email from JIRA - EHLO requires domain address

Encoding Property

Notes

Related Pages

-Dfile.encoding

Set to utf-8 for encoding consistency

Integrating JIRA with CVS and ViewCVS
Characters Not Supported by ASCII are Being Displayed as Question Marks
Troubleshoot character display issues in Jira server
Jira server throws SQL Exception while updating issues or importing data into MySQL due to encoding
International Characters in Notification Email Subject Lines Are Being Replaced with Question Mark

Other Properties

Notes

Related Pages

-Duser.timezone

 

Incorrect timestamps displayed in Jira server

-Dsvnkit.http.methods

Values include Basic,Digest,Negotiate,NTLM

JIRA Startup Fails Due to 'java.lang.SecurityException Unable to locate a login configuration'
Subversion Plugin Displays 'An unknown error occurred - actions == null' Due to SVN Authentication

-Dorg.apache.jasper.runtime.BodyContentImpl.LIMIT_BUFFER

false

(Archived) OutOfMemory Due to Tomcat Memory Leak
JRA-10145

-ea/-da

Enable/Disable assertions

java.lang.AssertionError When Sending Mail Via SMTP

-Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack

 

SocketException to Announce 'Invalid argument' for an Available Port

-Djavax.net.ssl.trustStore

 

Connecting to SSL services
Unable to Send Email 'javax.net.ssl.SSLException' Due to SMTP Server via SSL

-Djava.awt.headless

Ships with true by default. Allows thumbnail generation.

 

-Dhttp.proxyHost

-Dhttp.proxyPort

Outbound Proxy Server hostname and portConfigure an outbound proxy for use in Jira server

Last modified on Jan 30, 2013

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