Jenkins connect to Windows 10 agent

Question

I have a Jenkins master on a Linux machine and I would like it to be able to connect to a Windows 10 agent, how do I do that?

I can't find much in the official documentation about agents in general, and as for searching the web, the results show how to do it using JNLP, which only works on Java 8 and not on 11, and I don't want to downgrade from 11 to 8.

I've been able to set up Linux agents, to which I connect using ssh (like this), but the same process doesn't seem to work for the Windows agent.

I am at wits' end here, do you know or have any up-to-date resources on connecting to Windows agents? Thanks.

Answer 1

Have you checked the following link: https://wiki.jenkins.io/display/JENKINS/Step+by+step+guide+to+set+up+master+and+agent+machines+on+Windows I advise you to configure a node on the master ( manage --> manage nodes ) and set the launch method to launch agent by connecting it to the master. After that you have three methods to connect the Windows agent to Jenkins master, the easiest way will be to lanch it from a browser. This should work enven with jdk 11.

Answer 2

I've added a Jenkins windows slave to a Jenkins master running on Linux not too long ago and wrote the steps I've taken for future use.

Here's what needs to be done:

Jenkins service on the windows slave needs to be started with a dedicated user rather than local system account.

Then I had some problems when I tried connecting from the master jenkins to this windows-jenkins-slave of "Access denied" - when the master tried to start the local service.

In order to avoid "Access denied" errors when the master tries connecting to windows slave, follow these steps:

• Create a dedicated user for jenkins which is a member of the local administrative group on the windows-jenkins-slave.
• Allow the local administrator group full control over the following registry values:

• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Wow6432Node\CLSID{72C24DD5-D70A-438B-8A42-98424B88AFB8}

• HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID{76A64158-CB41-11D1-8B02-00600806D9B6}

And then reboot the windows agent to apply the changes to the registry.

Then, Configure the node in master Jenkins like so:

this jenkins user is the local user I've created.

• Add this local jenkins user to the jenkins service as the log on user.