Just off the top of my head, so I could be horribly wrong: If your Virginia server is launching the German nodes, I could easily see this happening. If you launched your nodes from the German sites and simply told them where to find the Virginia server, I wonder if it would respond to a disconnect by trying to reconnect.
Then again, you mention that you are restarting the Windows service, which implies that you're already doing this. If that is the case (that your German Windows boxes are launching slaves as a service independently and auto-connecting to Virginia), there might be a way in Windows to make a service auto-restart. That way, when you lose connectivity, Windows itself will try to restart the slave node. --Rob -----Original Message----- From: jenkinsci-users@googlegroups.com [mailto:jenkinsci-users@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of phil swenson Sent: Monday, July 30, 2012 10:48 AM To: jenkinsci-users Subject: jenkins nodes keep losing connectivity - how to avoid manual restart of node service? We have our Jenkins server running in virginia but all the nodes run in germany. Our nodes often lose connectivity briefly and the node gets stuck "offline". I have to manually go the the node and restart the windows service. This always works.... Does anyone have a remedy for this so I don't have to go thru this manual step (we have 16 nodes, so it's a pain).?? thanks phil The information in this message is for the intended recipient(s) only and may be the proprietary and/or confidential property of Litle & Co., LLC, and thus protected from disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient(s), or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any use, dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify Litle & Co. immediately by replying to this message and then promptly deleting it and your reply permanently from your computer.
