Jenkins is actually a very simple job
monitor, very much like NETBATCH in Tandem.(What else Tandem professional can
say J ). There, You create jobs that run either on
- a Calendar,
- an Interval
- OR Triggered by an external event.
What makes Jenkins is really useful, is the
large set of plugins that have been written by Jenkins community.
PLUGINS
- There are plugins that monitor GIT – so that when someone pushes code to GITHUB enterprise or Bitbucket server, a Jenkins job will automatically gets started.
- There are SSH Plugins that allow you to run commands or even other parts of jobs on other systems.
- There are packaging plugins, email plugins that send results to a team.
- Hipchat plugins that can send a message to your phone when is job fails.
Jobs are run by executors like in NETBATCH.
How
to setup?
- Download the Jenkins WAR file
- Run in using JAVA.
Don’t run Jenkins in user SUPER.SUPER.
Simple
way of running:
Nohup Java
$(JAVA_ARGS) \
-Djavax.net
ssl.trustStore=$(JAVA_HOME)/jre/lib/security/cacerts \
-cp ./Jenkins.war
main \
2>&1>>
Jenkins.log &
Nohup is there, to make sure Jenkins does
NOT step when your terminal session ends.
Note
: Your Java Arguments may vary. Don’t just copy & Paste the above one.
Jenkins can run on multi platform systems
too.
