A former system administrator has disabled our connection to the Atlassian Marketplace server - Why

[Søren Hansen]

Hi Everyone

A former system administrator has disabled our connection to the Atlassian Marketplace server, and I can figure out why.

As the new sysadmin I still want to control what apps are downloaded and more important what apps are updated. In other words: I want to control my JIRA instance.

We are already using the "Atlassian Universal Plugin Manager Plugin"

We have a lot of self developed apps - And I want to ensure compatibility

We are on JIRA 8.17

[Tom Lister · Accepted solution]

Hi @Søren Hansen 

The connection to Atlassian marketplace is very safe. There is no issue/user data exchanged. The link will check your versions and flag any core or plugin apps as having updates available. Whether you apply them or not will be your choice by selecting each update.

[Søren Hansen]

Hi Tom. Thank you very much for your answer. So if I restore the connection to the Atlassian marketplace, it will in principle have no consequences unless I myself actively choose to update some components in my JIRA instance?

[Andreas von Euw · Accepted solution]

I worked for a company disabled the connection to the marketplace as well. The main reason was data protection. They do not like to get internal data sent out to Atlassian. 

[Søren Hansen]

Hi Andreas. Thanks for your reply. As I read it, there are no consequences for reconnecting to the Atlassian marketplace, since I myself control which components or plugins I want to update?