What is jira tool?

It is an enterprise issue tracker system from Atlassian.

One of its key strengths is its ability to adapt to the needs of the organization from the frontend user interface to providing a platform for add-ons to extend its capabilities.

However, understanding its flexibility and picking the right add-ons can often be a daunting task for many administrators.

Learning how to take advantage of JIRA's power while keeping the overall design simple and clean is important to the success of the implementation and future growth.

You can make full of use recipes with real-life JIRA administration challenges, solutions,and examples. Each recipe contains easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions and illustrations from the actual application.

Jira Integrating and importing users from LDAP

By default, JIRA manages its users and groups internally. Most organizations today often
useLDAP such as Microsoft Active Directory (AD) for centralized user management, and
you can integrate JIRA with LDAP. JIRA supports many different types of LDAP, including
AD, OpenLDAP, and more.

There are two options to integrate JIRA with LDAP. In this recipe, we will explore the first
option by using an LDAP Connector, and we will look at the second option in the next
recipe, Integrating with LDAP for authentication only.

Atlassian jira administration online training

JIRA Fundamentals

1. Product introduction

2. Installation and System Requirements

 3. Applications, uses and examples

4. JIRA core concepts

5. JIRA Interface walkthrough

       1. Dashboard

       2. Admin interface

               1. Projects

                2. Add-ons

                3. User Management

                 4. Issue

                 5. System

                 6. Audit Log

 6. Project setup

                1. Create Project Categories

                  2. Create Project

                 3. Project Configuration Walkthrough

                 4. Components and versions

7. Issues in JIRA

                   1. Issue Links

                   2. Sub Tasks

 8. Filters and subscriptions

9. JIRA Workflow Introduction

 10. Setting up dashboards

11. Using JIRA effectively and Best Practices

                      1. Add Announcement Banner

                      2. Add Introduction

                      3. Use Shortcuts

                      4. Perform Indexing from time to time

12. Common JIRA add ons JIRA Reporting & JQL

                        1. Issue Navigator

                         2. Introduction to JQL

                        3. Basic JQL syntax

                        4. Browser shortcuts for JQL searching

                        5. JQL querying by example

                        6. Project Reports

                        7. Interpreting reports

                        8. Using charts to visualize data

                        9. Gadgets for reporting

                       10. Excel analysis

                       11. Discussion with instructor

JIRA Administration

1. Advanced user and group management

2. Working with project roles

3. Security model

                       1. Create a role for Thirdparty and add in specific project

 4. Types of administrators

                       1. JIRA System Administrator

                       2. JIRA Administrator

5. Issue level security

6. Email integration with JIRA

                      1. Configure with Gmail

7. Managing your installation and upgrading JIRA

 8. Startup/Shut down scripts, Logs, Files and Directories

                     1. Show directories

                     2. Application Data, export, import, attachments

                     3. Log files

 9. Authentication Mechanism in JIRA 

10. General administration (links, attachments, etc)

11. Issue Attributes  Statuses , Resolutions and Priorities

 12. Enhancing the user experience

13. JIRA Plugins

JIRA Schemes and Configurations

1. Workflows and workflow schemes

2. Issue Types and Issue Type Schemes

3. Screens and Screen Schemes

4. Fields and Field Configuration Schemes

5. Permissions and Permission Schemes

6. Security level and Security Schemes

7. Events, Notification and Notification Schemes

8. Versions and Components 

JIRA Workflows

   1. Basic workflow concepts

   2. Example workflows in real life

   3. JIRA default workflow

   4. Issue resolution

   5. Capturing and presenting your Data

   6. Custom fields

   7. Mandatory fields

   8. Common workflow configuration mistakes

                         1. No transition to come out of the state

                          2. States may contain no incoming and out coming transitions

9. Configuring workflows

                         1. Add additional states

10. Transitions, conditions and post functions

11. Step by step workflow configuration example

12. JIRA extensions

                           1. JIRA Suite Utilities – Make description mandatory

Tools Integration and Application Links

Import and Export

1. Backup system

2. Restore system

3. Project Import

 4. External System Import

Overview of some Use Cases

1. Setup JIRA for HelpDesk /Support Tickets

 2. Setup JIRA for Test Case Management

3. Setup JIRA for Project Management

4. Setup JIRA for Bug Tracking

New features of Micro Focus ALM 15.0

This section provides an overview of the features that were introduced or enhanced in ALM 15.0.

SSO Authentication	SSO access to ALM can be authorized in a federated environment. Users can use single sign-on for logging into ALM as they do with other SSO applications at the site. For details on how to facilitate single sign-on, see Setting up SSO Authentication. If you use Siteminder for user authentication, we recommend you switch to use the SSO authentication solution.
Web Runner	Web Runner is a web-based manual test execution tool. It enables you to run your test instances and submit defects while running your tests. After completing your test runs, the test results along with any submitted defects are automatically synchronized to ALM. For details, see Web Runner help.
Site Administration REST API Reference	This new guide provides a complete online reference for the newly added Site Administration REST-based API. Use the REST API to access and work with ALM data in Site Administration. For details, see Site Administration REST API Reference.
ALM AutoPass License Server (technical preview)	The AutoPass License Server (APLS) helps you organize and manage ALM licenses, by providing better visibility and control over license consumption. For details on how to configure APLS during the ALM installation, see the Micro Focus Application Lifecycle Management Installation and Upgrade Guide. For details on how to install and manage licenses in APLS, see Managing AutoPass License Server (technical preview).
Dashboard module	•         Health reports. The ALM health report provides an out of the box set of key metrics that will help you to gain visibility and control of your project’s progress and health. For details, see Health Reports. •         Email graphs from the Analysis View. Enables you to email a selected graph from the Analysis View. For details, see Analysis View Menus and Buttons. This option can also be triggered by OTA API. For details, see How to email analysis graphs using OTA API.
API Keys	API Key expiration time. By default, API Keys do not expire unless revoked. To set an expiration time, you can define the APIKEY_EXPIRE_DAYS site parameter. For details, see How to Manage API Keys.
BPT	Transpose button. This option enables you to switch the data table to have parameter rows and iteration columns. Available from Test Plan module > Test Configurations tab > Data tab for static configurations. For more details on the static view, see Data Tab: Static View.
ALM Help Center Enhancements	•         User Help menu. In addition to ALM help, now includes BPT and Web Runner. •         Integrations menu (new). Includes online help for Excel, Word, BV Excel, and MSI Generator. Also includes catalogs of add-ins and integrations. •         Admin Help menu. Now includes SaaS Administration. •         Developer Help menu. Previously called Advanced Help. Now itemizes the various API references for easy navigation

Micro Focus ALM 12.60 Installation Requirements

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What is jira tool? Where it can be used?

Jira is Atlassian's product it is used for project management tool for Agile. To describe: JIRA allows teams to track any kind of  project work (be it an issue, epic, bug, story, project task, etc.) through a system/user-defined workflow.
Jira is a user-friendly issue tracking tool that helps teams plan, manage, and report on their work. There are different versions of Jira depending on project usage.