Planned to upgrade Jira to latest version and require Tomcat detail

[Satya Narayan Asuri]

Hi Team,

We are planning to upgrade Jira to latest version and with the details as per below mail, found as need to upgrade first to 7.0.11 and then 7.9.x.

There is no separate Tomcat installed on server and looks like already bundled with Jira.

Could you please confirm if the latest Jira version comes with bundled upgraded Tomcat version 8.5.6 and does not require separate Tomcat upgrade?

Here is the current Jira version detail

     Java Version                                  : 1.8.0_40 - Oracle Corporation

     Java Compatibility Information                : JIRA version = 6.4.5, Java Version = 1.8.0_40

     java.class.version                            : 52.0

     java.runtime.version                          : 1.8.0_40-b25

     java.specification.version                    : 1.8

     java.version                                  : 1.8.0_40

     java.vm.specification.version                 : 1.8

     java.vm.version                               : 25.40-b25

     os.version                                    : 2.6.32-504.8.1.el6.x86_64

[Alexey Matveev]

Hello,

I am not sure with what version of Tomcat comes the latest Jira update. But if you use the in-built Tomcat, you do not have to update it after updating your Jira instance. Tomcat will be updated on Jira update automatically.

[Satya Narayan Asuri]

Thanks Matveev for your response.

I do not see any separate Tomcat version folder or process running on server so assuming its already inbuilt.

Is there any way if I can confirm that. 

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Jira does not have a separate process, it runs within the Tomcat process, so when you look at processes (e.g. ps -ef | grep -i jira), the Jira process you find is the Tomcat.

The Tomcat bundled with Jira is installed at the root of the installation of Jira - if you look in the directory where you told the installer to put Jira, you'll see the tomcat directories such as bin, conf, logs, work, plus the actual Jira application installation under atlassian-jira

The system information page should tell you exactly which Tomcat underlies it.

[Satya Narayan Asuri]

Thanks Nic for your response.

Yes I can see all folders under /opt/atlassian/jira and Tomcat version in system information is as 7.0.55.

Does any Tomcat version upgrade require prior to upgrade Jira to 7.0.11?

[Alexey Matveev]

@Satya Narayan Asuri You do not need to upgrade Tomcat prior to upgrade Jira. Tomcat will be upgraded automatically on Jira upgrade

[Satya Narayan Asuri]

Thanks a lot for your confirmation.