Windows Slave Agent

Enable Launch Slave Agents via Java Web Start

From Jenkins home page, click to Manage Jenkins

Then click to Configure Global Security

Select Random for option TCP port for JNLP agents

Then finally click Save button

Add New Windows Slave

From Jenkins home page, click to Manage Jenkins

On Manage Jenkins page, scroll down and click to Manage Nodes

From there you can see all computer currently exist in system. We just have one master machine. To create new node, click to New Node

Input agent name and click to OK button

Input Remote root directory, select Launch agent via Java Web Start, Finally click to Save button

Launch Slave Agent

From computer which we want to install as slave ( for demo, I use same machine for both master and slave) access to link http://localhost:8080/computer/

You could see that currently Window_Agent is disconnected with Jenkins.

Click to Windows_Agent and then click to Launch button

File slave-agent.jnlp will be downloaded to local, copy this file to C:\jenkins_slave

Start a command prompt as administrator.

Change directory to C:\jenkins_slave then execute command javaws slave-agent.jnlp

A dialog will show up, click to Run button

A dialog will show up and message that connected successfully

Go back to link http://localhost:8080/computer/ and refresh, you will see Window_Agent up and running successfully.

Now WindowAgent ready for use. But we will do one more step to setting up slave agent as a Windows service. From **_Jenkins slave agent dialog, click to File and then select Install as a service**

Then click OK for question

Current dialog will close up and new service for slave agent is installed successfully.

From now on, everytime machine power up, this machine will automatically connect to jenkins master and ready for running job.

Running Job with Windows Slave Agent

From GOL job dashboard, click to Configure

From General tab, click to Restrict where this project can be run, then enter “WindowsAgent” in **_Label Expression. This mean we only want GOL job running on machine represented by “Windows_Agent” . Then finally click to Save **button.

Now try to run GOL from it’s dashboard by click on Build Now

From Jenkins home page, you could see GOL running with Windows_Agent machine