"On recent Jenkins (~>1.450) you can install windows slave directly from Jenkins (and run it using a specific user if required), you don't need to use JNLP anymore."
How should I configure the node then? --Diogo On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 10:29 PM, Vincent Latombe <vincent.lato...@gmail.com > wrote: > Hello, > > On recent Jenkins (~>1.450) you can install windows slave directly from > Jenkins (and run it using a specific user if required), you don't need to > use JNLP anymore, and slave.jar is updated each time you restart the master > (each time the master connects to the slave to start its service actually) > > Cheers, > > Vincent > > > > 2012/11/14 Harpreet singh Wadhwa <harpreetsingh.wad...@gmail.com> > >> Don't know how it happens with JNLP, but for Linux machines (over SSH). >> It will update it automatically, when ever slave.jar is updated on master >> and connection (ssh) is restarted. >> >> PS: If you see connection logs (on the Jenkins UI), you will see it >> updating the slave.jar file. >> Thanks >> >> >> On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 1:03 PM, Diogo Guerra <diogo...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Hi, out setup we have two types of slaves: >>> - windows through jnlp with a windows service. >>> - linux with ssh. >>> >>> On the windows ones we had to download the jenkins windows version and >>> configure the jenkins-slave.xml and then we only have the jenkins-slave >>> service to start and not the jenkins master one. >>> >>> On linux we just had to give the ssh credentials and jenkins did its >>> magic. >>> >>> Our master runs on CentOS and we update via yum. Now I'm wondering what >>> is the procedure to update jenkins on slaves? >>> >>> On linux we need to re-install via the windows installer? >>> >>> What about linux slaves? >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> >> http://wharpreet.blogspot.com >> http://linuxgazettes.blogspot.com >> http://in.linkedin.com/in/wharpreet >> >> >
