More about the active Jenkins slave
In the following section, we will take a look at the various other configurable options available to us for the Jenkins slave agent that we have just added. Jenkins also provides a lot of general information about its slaves that we will see here. Follow these steps:
- From the Jenkins dashboard, click on
Manage Jenkins
|Manage Nodes
. - On the right-hand side you will also see a table showing the list of available Jenkins slaves. New to the list will be our newly added Jenkins slave.
- Click on the Jenkins slave name to access its configurations and metadata.
- On the resultant page (Jenkins slave
Status
page), on the left-hand side menu you will see a few options, as shown in the following screenshot:
Jenkins slave page
- Most of the preceding links (from the preceding screenshot) are self-explanatory. However, let's look at some of them in detail.
- The
Log
link is where you will find all the logs with respect to the Jenkins slave. After adding a Jenkins slave, if it...