Uninstall the JIRA adapter software and install the latest
JIRA adapter.
Before you begin
Complete these tasks before you install the adapter software:
About this task
You uninstall the adapter software and then install the latest
adapter. The latest adapter software includes the latest fix pack.
You can follow the same steps to upgrade from the trial version of
the adapter.
These upgrade instructions apply to upgrading the
adapter in to a JIRA 6.0.x application. For instructions about upgrading
the adapter in to a JIRA 5.0.x application, see the 1.0 information center.
Procedure
- Uninstall the JIRA adapter from the JIRA server.
- Start the JIRA server if it is not already started.
Log in to your JIRA server with administrative privileges.
- Click at the upper right of
the page.
You might be prompted to enter your JIRA
administrative credentials.
- On the Administration page, click Manage
Add-ons. The Manage Add-ons page
opens.
- Click OSLC CM and then click Uninstall.

A message shows indicating
that the adapter was successfully uninstalled.
Important: Another
message shows 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.
- Install the latest JIRA adapter.
- On the Manage Add-ons page, click Upload
add-on, and in the dialog that opens, browse to where
you extracted the electronic image or the product DVD to find the
adapter JAR file.
- Select the adapter, click Open and
then click Upload. A message
shows indicating that the adapter was successfully installed.
Important: Another message shows 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.
- If you are using PVU licensing, add the updated license
files, see Licensing.
- Redo any server friend associations you set up previously.
- Delete the friend relationships from both the JIRA adapter
and the CLM application administration page.
To delete
server friends from the JIRA adapter:
- Click at the upper right of the page.
- In the OSLC section at the lower left of the Administration page,
click Rational Adapter Home.
- In the Add Friends section, click Friends - (Manage
Friend Setup). The Friends page opens.
- In the Friend List section, delete each server friend by clicking
the x icon in the Actions column of each server
friend.
To delete server friends from the CLM application:
- Point your web browser to https://fully qualified
hostname:port/ccm/admin
- In the Communication section, click Consumers(Inbound).
- On the OAuth Consumers page, in the Authorized
Keys section, hover over a consumer name for your adapter
and click the Remove Consumer icon in the Actions column.
- Confirm that you want to delete the consumer name.
- Redo the friend relationships from JIRA see Establishing friend relationships from the adapter.
- Redo any project associations that you set up previously,
see Linking between JIRA projects and CLM project areas.
Results
The adapter software is upgraded to the latest software.
What to do next
Continue to use the JIRA adapter, see
Using the JIRA adapter.