I don't think such a setting exists. I think you most be able to make a jobs which runs a groovy script, which runs inside Jenkins and could force it to reconnect. I'm pretty sure it is possible. I looked into it a while ago when I had the same problem.
-- Sami "Stanley, Jason" <jason.stan...@tekelec.com> kirjoitti 26.7.2012 kello 17.22: > Hello > > I have the following option set for the availability of my slaves. > > Keep this slave on-line as much as possible > This is the default and normal setting. In this mode, Jenkins uses tries to > keep the slave on-line. If Jenkins can start the slave without user > assistance, it will periodically attempt to restart the slave if it is > unavailable. Jenkins will not take the slave off-line. > > Is there a way to configure the time in which Jenkins will attempt to restart > the slave if it is unavailable? > > Thanks > Jason