Tuesday, July 24, 2018

#Throwback: A script that will launch Jenkins slave to a remote Windows PC

Background:There are times when our Master Jenkins would go offline due to various reasons (network issues usually). Our Slave machines will then end up with their Jenkins agents in a dead state basically having to manually intervene to recover the connection.  Assumptions: Windows-to-Windows only since it uses Windows specific tool (PsExec.exe). Target Slave machine has svn command-line...