Information Technology Reference
In-Depth Information
How to do it…
Proceed with the following steps to integrate JIRA with Crowd for user management:
1. Navigate to
Administration
|
User Management
|
User Directories
.
2. Click on the
Add Directory
button and select the
Atlassian Crowd
option.
3. Enter the Crowd server settings. Refer to the following table for details.
4. Click on the
Test Settings
button to validate JIRA's connectivity to Crowd.
5. Click on the
Save and Test
button if there are no issues connecting to Crowd.
Server Set-
tings
Description
Name
This is an identifier for the Crowd server.
Server URL
This is the Crowd's server URL.
Application
Name
This is the registered application name for JIRA inside Crowd.
Application
Password
This is the password for the registered application.
Crowd Per-
missions
Select this option if you do not want JIRA to make any changes to Crowd. This is the ideal option if everything,
including the user's group membership, is managed with Crowd.
Read Only
Read/Write
Select this option to let JIRA synchronize any changes back to Crowd.
Advanced Settings
Description
Enable Nested Groups
This allows groups to contain other groups as members.
Enable Incremental Syn-
chronization
This will only synchronize deltas. Enabling this option can help improve performance.
This determines how often (in minutes) JIRA should synchronize with Crowd for changes. Shorter
intervals may cause performance issues.
Synchronization Interval
