products:cockpit:1.0:userguide:settings:jira
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JIRA
This plugins allows to create tickets in JIRA based on generated Alerts You can control how tickets are going to be created, updated and closed
Configuration
- Navigate to plugins, press
Createand select JIRA
| Parameters | Description |
|---|---|
| Name | Plugin name |
| URL | the URL of your Jira instance (ex: https://redpeaks.atlassian.net) |
| User | The user associated to the API token |
| Password | The API token created for the user |
| JIRA project | The project key in which tickets are going to be created |
| Issue type | The full name of the type of issues to create (Incident,Service Request,…) |
| Summary | Defines the summary format of the tickets. Variables can be used to build a custom summary |
| Closed states | Ticket states representing a closed state (Closed, Finished, etc…) |
Credentials
- The plugin requires to use basic authentication in order to use the JIRA API.
- Therefore you must create User API Token associated to the user under which the ticket is going to be created.
- We recommend creating the equivalent of a “service” user.
- To create User API tokens:
- Navigate to Atlassian administration portal
- Open
Security taband look forUser API Tokensin the left menu. - Create a new Token and use it as password in the Jira plugin configuration.
Raising Tickets
- Any alarm received by the plugin will trigger the following actions:
- Search in JIRA project if a ticket for the
alarmIdof the alarm already exists - If no
Openticket exists, then the plugin creates a new one - If a ticket exists, then the plugin updates the ticket, adding a new comment for the alarm.
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