Sunday, April 1, 2018

Artifact archive-Status Ball indication of Jenkins dashboard-Jenkins FAQ

Can Jenkins facilitate to provide artifact archive?

Yes. Jenkins can store a copy of the binary artifacts generated by build, allowing you to download the binaries produced by a build directly from the build results page.

It will also port the latest binary artifacts on the project home page, which is a convenient way to distribute the latest and greatest version of your applications.

You can activate this option by ticking the “Archive the artifacts “checkbox and indicating which binary artifacts you want Jenkins to archive.


How to trigger build job in Jenkins?

We can trigger build job by clicking the “Build Now “ link in home page.

The build will be kick of and you can see the stripy progress bar in the build history section.

The page will show the summary of all of your build jobs, including current build status and general state of health of each of your builds.


What is purpose of “Status Ball” indication of Jenkins dashboard?

Status Ball or build schedule button will indicating with different color when showing with green, it is ready for build execution. 

when the build finishes, the ball in the build history box becomes solid blue. This means the build was a success.

Build failures are generally indicated by a red ball. For some types of project, you can also distinguish between a build error (such as compiler error), indicated by a red ball, and other story of build failures, such as unit test failures or insufficient code coverage, which are indicated by a yellow ball.


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