Manage Former X Confluence Users

Use Case #2 (Optional)

To deactivate or remove license groups for former X users who left company.

Step-1

Configure Skip users for inactivation or deactivation process.

Step-2

Verify Admin user in App settings > Click update again to confirm.

Note. If your admin username is email prefix then please ensure this email address is not associated for other users.

Step-3

Go to, System General Configuration > Click Manage Inactive Users.

Configure the manage former X Users form for Use Case #2 (Optional) to deactivate or remove license groups for former X users who left company:

User Directory Names
- Choose user directories to process users for inactivation specific to these directories.
Processing Group
- Its faster and recommenended to process users for inactivation from specific group (e.g confluence-users, confluence-inactive-users).
- For testing you can use the group with small number of users.
- If empty it processes all users.
Deactivate Users (Optional)
- Disable if purpose / objective to just reduce license counts or remove license groups.
- Disable if you’re planning to grant License on login attempt.
- Disable if user directory is read-only.
Remove Groups
- Enter a comma separated license groups (e.g. confluence-users, confluence-inactive-users) to remove for inactive users.
Add Groups
- Its recommended to add those former X users inactive users for tracking. e.g. confluence-deactivated-users.
Rename Deactivated Users (Optional)
- To rename Deactivated user to {username}_inactive_yyyyMMdd
Activate (Optional)
- To enable Automatic Clean up.

That's it!

Additional information.

All atlassian provided user directories are supported:
- Supports license groups removal and helps to reduce license count.
- For User Deactivation:
  - User Directory must have read + write permissions i.e. in your user directory simply uncheck option [Update User attributes on Login].
  - For Crowd Directory: Enable Read/Write access at crowd properties
For Internal Directory you may need to consider using custom remote directory to validate user active/inactive status.
In addition to default Atlassian Supported User Directories, plugin also Supports custom remote external Directories.

Step-4

Perform Manual or On demand Clean.

Step-5

Go to, System General Configuration > Scheduled Jobs

To Configure Schedule for Automatic Clean.

Use below cron entry to schedule Inactive users clean up every Saturday at 6AM.

0 0 6 ? * SAT *

Step-6

To Debug Manage Inactive Users App:

Go to, System General Configuration > Logging and profiling > Add New Entry

Class/Package Name: com.tse.confluence.deactivateusers.plugin
Level: Debug

Manage Inactive Users