JCMA pre-flight checks related to Jira Service Management are failing
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Summary
Learn how to fix the Forbidden (403) error when Service projects are scoped in the migration using Jira Cloud Migration Assistant (JCMA).
Overview
When the Jira Cloud Migration Assistant (JCMA) migrates projects of type Service, it includes pre-flight checks for Jira Service Management (JSM). However, in some cases these checks will failing, and the following error is displayed on the migration plan screen:
We couldn’t check Cloud limits for queues, legacy automation rules, and SLAsIn the application logs (atlassian-jira.log file), warnings and errors similar to the ones below can be seen:
/rest/migration/latest/check/<chek_id> [jira.migration.preflight.PreflightService] check execution <check_id> failed
com.atlassian.jira.migration.httpclient.exceptions.UnexpectedStatusCodeException: Received an unexpected status code; expected [200], but received 403:
<html>
<head>
<title>Forbidden (403)</title>
...
</html>
at com.atlassian.jira.migration.httpclient.exceptions.ExceptionsKt.unexpectedStatusCode(Exceptions.kt:7)
at com.atlassian.jira.migration.httpclient.AbstractPluginHttpClient.checkExpectedResponseCode(AbstractPluginHttpClient.kt:175)
at com.atlassian.jira.migration.httpclient.AbstractPluginHttpClient.execute(AbstractPluginHttpClient.kt:68)
at com.atlassian.jira.migration.httpclient.AbstractPluginHttpClient.execute(AbstractPluginHttpClient.kt:56)
at com.atlassian.jira.migration.httpclient.MigrationPluginHttpClientWrapper.execute(MigrationPluginHttpClientWrapper.kt:21)
at com.atlassian.jira.migration.jiracloudservice.JiraCloudClient.getCloudEntityCreationLimitForSite(JiraCloudClient.kt:63)
at com.atlassian.jira.migration.preflight.JsmCloudEntityCreationLimitService.getMaxLimitsOnCloud(JsmCloudEntityCreationLimitService.kt:44)
at com.atlassian.jira.migration.preflight.JsmCloudEntityCreationLimitService.performCheck(JsmCloudEntityCreationLimitService.kt:56)
at com.atlassian.jira.migration.preflight.JsmCloudEntityCreationLimitCheck.performCheck(JsmCloudEntityCreationLimitCheck.kt:45)
at com.atlassian.jira.migration.preflight.AsyncCheckExecutor.runCheck(AsyncCheckExecutor.kt:223)
at com.atlassian.jira.migration.preflight.AsyncCheckExecutor.access$runCheck(AsyncCheckExecutor.kt:34)
at com.atlassian.jira.migration.preflight.AsyncCheckExecutor$executeChecksListenable$1.invoke$lambda$6$lambda$4(AsyncCheckExecutor.kt:140)
at com.google.common.util.concurrent.TrustedListenableFutureTask$TrustedFutureInterruptibleTask.runInterruptibly(TrustedListenableFutureTask.java:125)
at com.google.common.util.concurrent.InterruptibleTask.run(InterruptibleTask.java:57)
at com.google.common.util.concurrent.TrustedListenableFutureTask.run(TrustedListenableFutureTask.java:78)
at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(Unknown Source)
at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source)
at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
/rest/migration/latest/check/<check_id> [jira.migration.preflight.AsyncCheckExecutor] Preflight CheckBatch with executionId <check_id> failed.
com.atlassian.jira.migration.httpclient.exceptions.UnexpectedStatusCodeException: Received an unexpected status code; expected [200], but received 403Environment
- JCMA Server to Cloud
- JCMA Data Center to Cloud
Solution
The migration includes Service projects, causing the cloud server to return the HTTP 403 (Forbidden) error due to the target instance lacking an active Jira Service Management product.
Activating Jira Service Management in the cloud instance will fix this issue.