Automate role name changes

Licencias Corporativo

Hi,

We have Jira DC connected to an LDAP. In this LDAP we have the necessary roles for the company. Sometimes, these roles suffer name changes; when this happens the permission and security schemes of the Jira projects are wrong. Changing them manually is very cumbersome as we are a 2500 employees company with a lot of roles, with a very large Jira instance with many permission schemes. Do you know any tool that allows to automate these role name changes? Translated with DeepL.com (free version)

Regards,

Pedro

John Price_q5a7ni

I see this is translated, and the translation says "roles" but LDAP only affects "groups" in Jira, which are typically mapped from Windows groups. Someone should have a look at your LDAP configuration and make sure attributes and other items are set correctly. 

If the actual domain groups are being renamed frequently, a few suggestions:

1. Make sure all your Jira permission schemes reference project *roles* only so that schemes don't have to be changed.
2. Change the LDAP mapping to bring in only a subset of groups instead of thousands - at my last firm, there were Windows groups in a certain OU starting with "JR-**" to show those were important to Jira. 
3. Make friends with the Windows/domain team and be sure they have Jira as a dependency when the make changes, so you can be notified.
4. Over time, work on reducing the number of permission schemes and standardizing and documenting permissions. If schemes are role-based, you shouldn't need more than a dozen or so, even in a large org.

Exact solution depends on your specifics - good luck!