As Jenkins administrators it is our responsibility to monitor, and maintain the Jenkins master and slave nodes in our build farm. Jenkins features a comprehensive set of tools, and services that takes most of the guesswork out of managing a distributed Jenkins implementation. In this section we will discuss the ins and outs of maintaining a healthy Jenkins master and slave architecture.
The Jenkins node administration page allows us to add, remove, control, and monitor the Jenkins master and any attached slave devices. Figure 2-14 illustrates this Jenkins node administration page:
Also featured on the slave node administration page is a detailed status and configuration side panel. The configuration panel allows the Jenkins administrator to configure warning thresholds and define new slave nodes.
Non-administrative users can view the status of slave devices by looking at the Build Executor...