Cannot create Jira Service Management Automation Rules
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*Except Fisheye and Crucible
Summary
Problem
Unable to create automation rules.
Go to Project Settings > Automation > Add rule and select a rule (any rule)
Click on the rule we want to create and click Next
The window just closes. Next step is not shown
The following appears in the atlassian-jira.log
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http-nio-8080-exec-13 ERROR [o.a.c.c.C.[.[localhost].[/].[default]] Servlet.service() for servlet [default] in context with path [] threw exception
java.lang.RuntimeException: org.apache.catalina.connector.ClientAbortException: java.io.IOException: An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host
at com.atlassian.servicedesk.internal.util.scala.ScalaJavaInterOp$1.apply(ScalaJavaInterOp.java:27)
at com.atlassian.servicedesk.internal.utils.context.CustomerContextUtil$.outOfCustomerContext(CustomerContextUtil.scala:48)
at com.atlassian.servicedesk.internal.utils.context.CustomerContextUtil.outOfCustomerContext(CustomerContextUtil.scala)
at com.atlassian.servicedesk.internal.utils.context.CustomerContextServiceImpl.outOfCustomerContext(CustomerContextServiceImpl.java:24)
at com.atlassian.servicedesk.internal.web.CustomerContextSettingFilter.outOfCustomerContext(CustomerContextSettingFilter.java:164)
at com.atlassian.servicedesk.internal.web.CustomerContextSettingFilter.doFilterImpl(CustomerContextSettingFilter.java:120)
at com.atlassian.servicedesk.internal.web.CustomerContextSettingFilter.doFilter(CustomerContextSettingFilter.java:112)
... 55 filtered
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(Unknown Source)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.TaskThread$WrappingRunnable.run(TaskThread.java:61)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
Caused by: org.apache.catalina.connector.ClientAbortException: java.io.IOException: An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host
at org.apache.catalina.connector.OutputBuffer.realWriteBytes(OutputBuffer.java:393)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.buf.ByteChunk.flushBuffer(ByteChunk.java:426)
at org.apache.catalina.connector.OutputBuffer.doFlush(OutputBuffer.java:342)
at org.apache.catalina.connector.OutputBuffer.flush(OutputBuffer.java:317)
at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteOutputStream.flush(CoyoteOutputStream.java:110)
at com.atlassian.gzipfilter.GzipResponseStream.flush(GzipResponseStream.java:31)
at com.atlassian.gzipfilter.RoutableServletOutputStream.flush(RoutableServletOutputStream.java:138)
... 1 filtered
at com.sun.jersey.spi.container.ContainerResponse$CommittingOutputStream.flush(ContainerResponse.java:146)
at org.codehaus.jackson.impl.Utf8Generator.flush(Utf8Generator.java:1085)
at org.codehaus.jackson.map.ObjectMapper.writeValue(ObjectMapper.java:1606)
at org.codehaus.jackson.jaxrs.JacksonJsonProvider.writeTo(JacksonJsonProvider.java:558)
at com.sun.jersey.spi.container.ContainerResponse.write(ContainerResponse.java:302)
... 5 filtered
at com.atlassian.plugins.rest.module.RestDelegatingServletFilter$JerseyOsgiServletContainer.doFilter(RestDelegatingServletFilter.java:154)
... 1 filtered
at com.atlassian.plugins.rest.module.RestDelegatingServletFilter.doFilter(RestDelegatingServletFilter.java:68)
... 91 filtered
at com.atlassian.jira.security.JiraSecurityFilter.doFilter(JiraSecurityFilter.java:70)
... 16 filtered
at com.atlassian.plugins.rest.module.servlet.RestSeraphFilter.doFilter(RestSeraphFilter.java:37)
... 22 filtered
at com.atlassian.servicedesk.internal.web.CustomerContextSettingFilter.lambda$invokeFilterChain$0(CustomerContextSettingFilter.java:169)
at com.atlassian.servicedesk.internal.util.scala.ScalaJavaInterOp$1.apply(ScalaJavaInterOp.java:25)
... 65 more
Caused by: java.io.IOException: An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host
at sun.nio.ch.SocketDispatcher.write0(Native Method)
at sun.nio.ch.SocketDispatcher.write(Unknown Source)
at sun.nio.ch.IOUtil.writeFromNativeBuffer(Unknown Source)
at sun.nio.ch.IOUtil.write(Unknown Source)
at sun.nio.ch.SocketChannelImpl.write(Unknown Source)
... 11 filtered
... 219 moreDiagnosis
The Jira application is configured behind a reverse proxy server
When Data Center How to bypass a reverse proxy or SSL in Application Links, the issue goes away
Cause
This is due to proxy configuration issue which does not allow service project to call back to it self through REST
Solution
Resolution
Ensure that the proxy was setup accordingly by following this Integrating JIRA with Apache
Ensure that Jira are able to perform a call back to itself : Perform curl/telnet test call to the Jira proxied URL from the server
curl example.comtelnet google.com
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