Our JIRA instance is using one of our production Oracle databases, along with other support services. From time to time the DBA's need to restart that database. As a result, the open db connections start throwing broken pipe errors. It appears that JIRA (probably Tomcat) closes these as they throw errors with use and open new connections. As a pro-active measure, we have restarted JIRA to clean these connections out. We would rather leave the JIRA instance alone and only address refreshing the connection pool. I am not seeing anything in JIRA to do this. Also, I am reluctant to go poking around in that Atlassain configured Tomcat install without some Atlassain documentation to back up this approach. (unless someone else has already) Ideally, we are looking for a CLI answer and possibly cron this task.
