The NodeHelper API contains helper functions to query basic machine stats in real time, add new machines, update/overwrite labels.
- Get CPU count
String getCpuCount(String computerName) - Get Installed memory
Tuple getMemory(String computerName) - Get OS information
Tuple getOsInfo(String computerName) - Get Kernel information
Tuple getOsKernelInfo(String computerName) - Get Endian
String getEndian(String computerName) - Get Location
String getLocation(String computerName) - Get Description
String getDescription(String computerName) - Get Home directory
String getHomeDirectoryPath(String computerName) - Get free space in the home directory
String getSpaceLeftInGb(String computerName) - Get Total installed disk space
String getTotalSpace(String computerName) - Get Labels
String getLabels(String computerName) - Add new Node
String addNewNode(String newNodeName,String newNodeDescription,String newNodeRemoteFS,int newNodeNumExecutors,Mode newNodeMode,String newNodeLabelString,def launcher) - Add Label
String addLabel(String computerName, String label) - Append Label
String appendlabel(String computerName, String label)
Iterates over online nodes on Jenkins and prints the contents of the workspace directory along with the space they occupy
- The computers it iterates over can be limited by input parameter,
projectLabel - As of now, it only works for linux, aix, and mac
Used to create new nodes with any basic labels
- This job expects 3 parameters
String machineNames- Comma seperated host names of the machine(s)
String machineIPs- Comma seperated IP address of the machine(s)
String labelStrings- Labels you would like to be added to the machine.
- Each label must be separated by spaces and labels for different machines must be separated by
, - If identical labels need to be applied to all the machines, only one set of labels need to be supplied
Used to update machine labels and description
- The computers it iterates over can be limited by input parameter,
projectLabel - The job expects 5 input parameters
boolean overWriteLabels- Does excatly as the name suggests, completely wipes previous labels
- If set true, you do not need to pass a
projectLabel
String labels- Labels you would like to be added to the machine.
- Each label must be separated by spaces and labels for different machines must be separated by
, - If identical labels need to be applied to all the machines, only one set of labels need to be supplied
- Use Cases:
- Multiple machines, unique labels:
machine1Label1 machine1Label2, machine2Label1 machine2Label2 - Single or multiple machines, identical labels:
Label1 Label2
- Multiple machines, unique labels:
String machineNames- Can either enter a list of names or a single name. For list seperate them with ","
boolean updateDescription- If this is set true, the job will update description
- This has higher precedence than overWriteLabels
String projectlabel- This limits which machines will be touched
- Use Cases:
- Update labels:
- Objective: add default labels(os, arch, and kernel)
- Procedure: overWriteLabels is not set and only the machine name(s) is supplied
- Overwrite Labels:
- Objective: overwrite previous labels with new ones
- Procedure: overWriteLabels is set and machine name(s) + labels are supplied
- Append labels:
- Objective: want to add a custom label.
- Procedure: supply labels and machine names
- Update description:
- It adds CPU count, Disk space and installed RAM to the description
- Procedure: have
updateDescriptionparameter checked
- Update labels:
Here are the instructions on how to add the library to Jenkins
To use the API in a Jenkins job you'll need to add @Library('NodeHelper') _ to import the API.
- A job that pulls machine list from a inventory file and validates the names with those already on Jenkins. It also adds any labels mentioned in the inventory file to the machine on Jenkins, issue
- CPU Information for a ZOS, issue
- Logic to get Hypervisor information, issue
- Move strings out to a config file, issue