JIRA Administrator's Guide
This manual contains information on administering your JIRA system. If you are looking for specific information regarding installing or upgrading JIRA, please refer to the JIRA installation and upgrade guide.
Getting Help
Configuring the Layout and Design
- Customizing the Look and Feel
- Choosing a Default Language
- Configuring the Default Issue Navigator
- Configuring the Default Dashboard
- Configuring an Announcement Banner
- Enabling Logout Confirmation
- Creating Links in the Application Navigator
- Configuring Issue Table Columns
- Configuring Project Navigation
User and Group Management
- Managing Users
- Managing Groups
- Configuring User Directories
- Configuring the Internal Directory
- Connecting to an LDAP Directory
- Connecting to an Internal Directory with LDAP Authentication
- Connecting to Crowd or Another JIRA Server for User Management
- Managing Multiple Directories
- Synchronising Data from External Directories
- Managing Nested Groups
- Diagrams of Possible Configurations for User Management
- User Management Limitations and Recommendations
- Allowing Other Applications to Connect to JIRA for User Management
- Migrating Users between User Directories
- Viewing User Sessions
- Clearing 'Remember my login' Tokens
- Enabling Public Signup and CAPTCHA
- Changing the User Default Settings
Project Management
Configuring Security
- Configuring Issue-level Security
- Managing Project Permissions
- Managing Project Roles
- Managing Global Permissions
- Configuring Secure Administrator Sessions
- Preventing Security Attacks
- JIRA Cookies
- JIRA Admin Helper
- Password Policy for JIRA
Configuring Fields and Screens
Configuring Workflow
- Activating workflow
- Configuring workflow schemes
- Working in text mode
- Sharing your workflow
- Advanced workflow configuration
Configuring Email
Migrating from Other Issue Trackers
- Importing Data from Bugzilla
- Importing Data from FogBugz for Your Server
- Importing Data from FogBugz On Demand
- Importing Data from Mantis
- Importing Data from Pivotal Tracker
- Importing Data from Trac
- Importing Data from CSV
- Importing Data from Redmine
- Importing Data from Bitbucket
- Importing Data from Github
- Importing Data from JSON
Moving or Archiving Individual Projects
Integrating JIRA with Code Development Tools
- Version matrix for code development tools
- Integrating JIRA with Bitbucket Server
- Integrating JIRA with Bamboo
- Integrating JIRA with FishEye
- Integrating JIRA with Subversion
- Integrating JIRA with Perforce
Configuring Global Settings
- Configuring Time Tracking
- Configuring JIRA Options
- Setting Properties and Options on Startup
- Advanced JIRA Configuration
- Configuring File Attachments
- Configuring Issue Cloning
- Configuring Issue Linking
- Configuring the Whitelist
- Configuring Sub-tasks
- Managing Shared Filters
- Managing Shared Dashboards
- Linking to Another Application
Server Administration
- Finding your Server ID
- Increasing JIRA Memory
- Using the Database Integrity Checker
- Precompiling JSP pages
- Logging and Profiling
- Restoring Data
- Optimizing Performance
- Backing Up Data
- Search Indexing
- Using robots.txt to hide from Search Engines
- Updating your JIRA License Details
- Viewing your System Information
- Monitoring Database Connection Usage
- Viewing JIRA's Instrumentation Statistics
- Generating a Thread Dump
- Finding the JIRA Support Entitlement Number (SEN)
- Performance Testing Scripts
- Auditing in JIRA
Appendix A - Extending JIRA
Please see the JIRA User's Guide for an introduction to the concepts of issues and projects.
Last modified on Mar 11, 2015
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