Upgrading from the trial

You uninstall the JIRA adapter trial version and install the supported version of the Rational® Adapter for JIRA that is available with the Rational Lifecycle Integration Adapters Standard Edition offering.

Before you begin

Do these tasks before you upgrade the adapter software:

About this task

You uninstall the trial version of the adapter and then install the supported adapter plug-in from a product DVD or an electronic image.

Procedure

  1. Uninstall the trial JIRA adapter plug-in from the JIRA server.
    1. Start the JIRA server if it is not already started. Log in to your JIRA server with administrative privileges.
    2. Click Administration, at the upper right of the page.
    3. On the Administration page, select Plugins from the Plugins drop down menu. You might be prompted to enter your JIRA administrative credentials.
    4. On the Plugins page, click the Manage Existing tab.
    5. Select OSLC CM and then click Uninstall. Uninstall OSLC CM plug-in

      A message displays indicating that the plug-in was successfully uninstalled.

      Important: Another message displays about reindexing the JIRA database. Since reindexing can take some time to complete, you can choose to reindex the JIRA database at a convenient time.
  2. Install the supported JIRA plug-in.
    1. On the Administration page, select Plugins from the Plugins drop down menu.

      You might be prompted to enter your JIRA administrative credentials.

    2. 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.
    3. Select the adapter, click Open and then click Upload. A message displays indicating that the plug-in was successfully installed.
      Important: Another message displays about reindexing the JIRA database. Since reindexing can take some time to complete, you can choose to reindex the JIRA database at a convenient time.
    4. Restart the JIRA server.
  3. 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

Results

The trial software is upgraded to the supported product software.

What to do next

Continue to use the JIRA adapter, see Using the JIRA adapter.

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