Ultimately I ended up getting this working by using
https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Global+Post+Script+Plugin
with a one line change, which will be in 1.1.0, to allow the hook to run
on aborted jobs as well as others. These other plugins were very
helpful. I was mostly through writing a
There is a todo in the Build Failure Analyser plugin to add steps to take
in case a specific failure cause is found. But we never got around to
implementing it.
If you are interested you're welcome to taking a crack at it.
https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Build+Failure+Analyzer
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On
https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Adaptive+disconnector+plugin
is here to prevent some of that putting slave temporarily offline in case
some of the monitors is triggered. Most notably full workspace, temp dir.
If you implement your check as Jenkins monitor, it will integrate nicely
Executive Summary: I'm looking to build/modify/extend a plugin to give
me something like a global post-build hook for the purpose of mitigating
a problem we have with sick nodes gobbling up jobs from the build queue.
I have some ideas but am looking for advice before I put a lot of work
into solvin
