Thanks for the hint, this will definitely be of help for our purpose.

On Monday, February 24, 2014 10:48:45 PM UTC+1, Geoff Cummings wrote:
>
> There are instructions at the following page for getting jenkins to start 
> in maintenance mode:
>
> https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Post-initialization+script
>
>
> You can create a Groovy script file as $JENKINS_HOME/init.groovy
> With the following contents:
>
>
> import jenkins.model.*;
>
> // start in the state that doesn't do any build.
> Jenkins.instance.doQuietDown();
>
>
>
>
> On a related note, I would like to be able to manually trigger and allow 
> some maintenance jobs to run when Jenkins is in maintenance mode...
>
> Hope this helps,
> Geoff
>
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 9:28 PM, Bruno Meneguello 
> <[email protected]<javascript:>
> > wrote:
>
>> I do agree. Jenkins should stay in the maintenance mode until requested 
>> to cancel by an administrator
>> Em 24/02/2014 18:23, "Michael Rumpf" <[email protected] <javascript:>> 
>> escreveu:
>>
>> Hi,
>>>
>>> the usual way to restart Jenkins for maintenance is to activate "Prepare 
>>> for shutdown", to wait until all running tasks are completed and restart 
>>> Jenkins.
>>> In the past we had many situations where we needed a second restart but 
>>> because Jenkins starts looking for SCM changes right after the start a new 
>>> set of builds are already running.
>>>
>>> It would be of great benefit to have a flag which starts Jenkins right 
>>> into "Prepare for shutdown" mode so that no new builds start running.
>>>
>>> The easiest part would be to look for a certain file, e.g. 
>>> jenkins.maintenance, if that is present, Jenkins goes into maintenance 
>>> mode. When the file is deleted, Jenkins goes back to normal mode.
>>>
>>> How do you think about such a feature?
>>>
>>> Kind regards,
>>>      Michael
>>>
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