It seems that the upgrade of ID dashboard caused some unintended issues relating to synchronization of records from OpenLDAP to Crowd, and then to Confluence & JIRA. ID Dashboard and Crowd are the only applications which speak directly to OpenLDAP, Confluence and JIRA work against Crowd.
That said, I BELIEVE things have stablized for now, however if any issues DO occur, do not hesitate to contact the helpdesk.