How to embed JIRA license key as part of JIRA config without entering it from the UI

[Gerin Abraham]

Hello JIRA Users,

I am trying to apply the JIRA license contents in an automated way without manually inputting it from the First time JIRA setup within the UI once JIRA is started.

Is there a way to apply the license file in the JIRA home directory - which file name /location etc will this file be saved at. Where exactly is the license key stored within JIRA.

-G

[Deleted user]

To correct C. Faysal:

1. Figure out what property ID represents the license key. For new versions of jira it will be:

   select id from propertyentry where property_key = 'License20';

2. Now you can update the property, just replace the placeholders:

   update propertytext set propertyvalue = #{license_key} where id = #{jira_license_prop_id};

[Simone Kaiser]

Thank you! This helped me so much when my JIRA didn't want to run after an upgrade to 6.2.1 :-)

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

I've not seen Jira install the licence as a file. But you can poke it into the database.

(Sadly I can't remember where, it's been a while since I scripted it into a failover system - I'm pretty sure it's one of the propertyentry rows, but I'm not certain)

[adam valenzuela]

The only way I have been able to achieve this is by doing the entire install one time, say on a test box (including clicking around the wui) to obtain the fully formed response.varfile and to populate all of the needed XML files. Then I just wrote a bash script which performs the very same install using that "response.varfile" along with a copy the "dbconfig.xml" which was previously created.

Perform install w/response.varfile

Stop jira

Copy over dbconfig.xml to "jira data" directory

Verify permissions

Restart jira.

$!BOOM

With that that formula I am able to kickstart a fully usable jira box without touching the keyboard. I will note that this method "may" cause issues with licensing down the road, but if you are in a heavy dev-env which may involve flipping these installs like hotcakes then this might work for you.

Still working on combing this w/ the ~/bin/config.sh to setup https out the gate.

[C_ Faysal]

As nic said you can inject the license by sql statement. I need to be on a non-mobile device to view my backup script where i did exactly the same. I will post the cmd asap

[C_ Faysal]

here you go:

update propertytext set propertyvalue = '$jira_license' where ID = '10021'"