We're about to embark on writing our own downtime/maintenance window scripts to control our Jenkins master...any ideas/suggestions/best practices??

Our IT dept LOVES to take down random parts of our network and infrastructure every other week. This usually means we have builds that break and nodes that are left in a bad state and need manual intervention. Usually IT tells us that this maintenance is coming, so we would like to be able to t

Re: authentication, Jenkins CLI, and Windows

First, you can always setup ssh on Windows using CygWin I'm confused on the rest of your problem as I don't understand how your system is set up. How are you connecting your windows nodes now? Is "anonymous" a user on the jenkins server or on your windows n

Re: "Execute Windows batch command" not executing

Triggering default sounds like you are triggering another job to run as part of this jobs execution. Are you doing this explicitly? I'm pretty sure that .bat files are not the only thing supported by the run windows batch command build step. My server doesn't call any...just straight windows com

Notification of Job Taking Too Long

OK, I know this one's been out before, but I can't find a good answer (so please don't tell me to just use the timeout plugin that kills the job). What is the best way to know if a job has hung and, if possible, send a notification? Again, I don't want to kill the job...just be notified. Thanks

Can a job reserve other nodes' executors?

We have a build system where the job from Jenkins runs on one node, but the build on that node then runs processes on two other machines outside of Jenkins' control. I would prefer that the job state which three nodes it is using and reserve their executor. This way I could have three "pools" o

Re: Problem accessing jenkins-ci.org website - known issue?

FYI, it's back and appears to be stable...though I wish someone would comment on what happened... On Thursday, June 12, 2014 10:56:02 AM UTC-5, Alessandro De Noia wrote: > > On Thursday, 12 June 2014 09:43:48 UTC+1, Mark Wassell wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I am trying to download the windows installer

Re: Problem accessing jenkins-ci.org website - known issue?

I'm seeing the same thing. I cannot access *.jenkins-ci.org On Thursday, June 12, 2014 9:15:34 AM UTC-5, VFloyd wrote: > > Any luck? I'm having similar issues trying to download a plugin - I'm > getting "java.io.IOException: Server returned HTTP response code: 503 for > URL" > > > On Thursday