Allowing other applications to connect to JIRA

In the previous section, we connected one JIRA instance to another for user management. The instance used as a JIRA user server needs to have the application created so that other instances can connect to it:

  1. Go to JIRA Administration | User management | JIRA User Server.

    Click on the Add application button in the top-right corner:

    Allowing other applications to connect to JIRA

  2. On the next screen, enter Application name as jira-user-server or something meaningful.
  3. Enter the Password for this application.
  4. Finally, enter the IP address of the actual JIRA server in the IP Addresses field. This step is quite important. Without this step, the connection ...

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