Installing the plug in

The adapter plug in must be installed in the JIRA application.

Before you begin

Before you can install the adapter, you must obtain the installation files. To order an electronic image, see Downloading the installation media. To order a product DVD, see ibm.com®.

About this task

You install the adapter plug-in from a product DVD or an electronic image.

Procedure

  1. If you are installing from the product DVD insert the DVD into your DVD drive.
  2. For Linux Mount the DVD drive
  3. For Windows Run launchpad.exe or launchpad64.exe if you have a Windows 64-bit operating system, which is in the JIRA\Disk1 directory.
  4. For Linux. Run launchpad.sh, which is in the JIRA/disk1 directory.
  5. Use the Interactive Installation Guide to create a custom installation guide according to your environment.
  6. When you are ready to start the installation. Start the JIRA server if it is not already started. Login to your JIRA server (for example, http://YourJIRAhostname:8080/) with administrative privileges.
  7. Click Administration, located at the top right of the page.
  8. On the Administration page, select Plugins from the Plugins drop down menu. You might be prompted to enter your JIRA administrative credentials.
  9. On the Plugins page, click the Install tab. Click Upload Plugin, and in the dialog that opens, browse to the product DVD drive or to where you extracted the electronic image to find the adapter jar file.
  10. Select the adapter, click Open and then click Upload. A message displays indicating that the plug-in was successfully installed.
    Important: A message displays recommending that the JIRA database be reindexed. Since reindexing can take some time to complete, you can choose to reindex the JIRA database at a convenient time.
  11. Restart the JIRA server.

Results

You have installed the adapter plug-in into the JIRA application.

What to do next

Measure PVUs by which the adapter is licensed by setting up PVU licensing for the Rational® Adapter for JIRA, see Setting up processor value unit pricing.

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