How does Jira edge connector (JEC)?

Martin Kožej

Hi everybody,

we are trying to use Jira edge connector (JEC) to establish a communication between our Cloud Jira and on-prem tool.

Unfortunately I cannot seem to make it work, so I guess I am missing something. And documentation for JEC is very limited.

So I followed instructions provided by Atlassian: 

Install JEC and prepare config file

{
    "apiKey" : "xxx-xxx-xxx",
    "baseUrl" : "https://api.atlassian.com",
    "logLevel" : "debug",
    "actionMappings" : {
        "testJEC" : {
            "sourceType" : "local",
            "filepath" : "/home/jsm/jec/scripts/othertest.py",
            "env" : [],
            "stdout" : "/home/jsm/jec/output/testout.txt",
            "stderr" :   "/home/jsm/jec/output/testout.txt"
        }
    },
    "pollerConf" : {
        "pollingWaitIntervalInMillis" : 100,
        "visibilityTimeoutInSeconds" : 30,
        "maxNumberOfMessages" : 10
    },
    "poolConf" : {
        "maxNumberOfWorker": 12,
        "minNumberOfWorker": 4,
        "queueSize" : 0,
        "keepAliveTimeInMillis" : 6000,
        "monitoringPeriodInMillis" : 15000
    }
}

Prepare simple script

Simple script othertest.py that just writes text in a file (so that I can see that it has been triggered)

f = open("output.txt", "w")
f.write("Test file\n")
f.close()

Create automation

Automation should trigger action testJEC. Also I used apiKey generated here in the config file.

Run JEC

Run JEC using

 

sudo systemctl start jec

 

So after all this set up, when I trigger my automation, it should call on-prem JEC through Connection and through config file it should select action testJEC which should run a script othertest.py as defined in config file. But nothing happenes. So what am I doing wrong?

I checked and I can ping to my server and from my server to api.atlassian.com. Automation runs successfully. 

Nikolai Ruban

Hi Martin,

do you run JEC in the container or straight on the machine?

are there errors or warnings in the logs of JEC?