Changing crowd.properties file does that require an application restart?

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Hi All,

I want to update the crowd.properties file of multiple applications:

jira

bitbucket

bamboo

confluence

I want to update the "session.validationinterval" to increase the amount of time users would have a valid session before being asked to re-login again.

My question is, after I make an update, does that require me to restart the crowd server? or the individual applications themselves or both. Or maybe nothing needs to be done other than the update on the crowd.properties file. 

Hopefully someone can clarify that for me.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Accepted solution]

Yes, it does need a restart - the values from almost all .properties files are read at start time, not regularly while running (there are exceptions, but they're all properties outside the core of the application and the files are read on demand in those cases)

You won't need to restart Crowd though.  If you change the jira properties, restart Jira so it starts using the new values.  Crowd doesn't care what Jira is doing other than when it asks Crowd for user info.