Jenkins How to find if a given slave is running a Job

Question

I have this unique requirement to check if the given node is running a job or not. I am thinking of using groovy as it looks easiest option.

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Answer 1

Let me propose a very simple and efficient way

Each node stores the information related to if it example : idle or not , offline or not etc

You can get those details using below command

curl -X GET --silent -u jenkins_user:${jenkins_pwd} "http://your_jenkins_url:8080/computer/node_name/api/json"

or directly from browser

http://your_jenkins_url:8080/computer/node_name/api/jso

This result provides valuable information related to slave.

If you want narrow down the search to a specific thing like , is the slave idle or not then you can append it with below logic

curl -X GET --silent -u jenkins_user:${jenkins_pwd} "http://jenkins_domanin:8080/computer/node_name/api/json" | python -c 'import json,sys,os;obj=json.load(sys.stdin);print obj["idle"]'