How can I deactivate an entire JIRA instance?

[Eric Kaiser]

We've installed a new JIRA instance, and would like to keep the old one (5.2.11) around as an archive. It would thus make sense to "deactivate" the latter, that is, making it read-only and disable the creation of issues.

What's the best way to achive that? I haven't seen any global "deactivate" option anywhere.

[Bhushan Nagaraj · Accepted solution]

Create a new permission scheme which only allows users to browse projects. Apply the scheme to all projects making it read only.

[Eric Kaiser]

Yep, that seems like the best way to go. Thanks!

[Tim Eddelbüttel]

Under the Global Permissions you can remove the Users/ Group from the JIRA Users Permission.