I had this problem when using a special Firewall. Go into Manage Jenkins -> Configure system -> and un-select the "Use random port" under security. And set a Fixed port of your liking.
/MV 2012/2/6 speKc <[email protected]> > > i am a relatively novice Jenkins user but have some experience setting > up slave-nodes on both Linux and Windows (2008 R2) systems. I'm > experiencing a Windows slave-node issue that has me stumped. Any debug > suggestion would be most appreciated. Launch method is 'Launch slave > agents via Java Web Start'. I've confirmed master and slave-node can > ping each other, and I am attempting to launch the Jenkins client > while on remote'd into the client. > What appears to be the problem, is the slave is attempting to connect > to the wrong port. The small GUI pop-up that indicating an connection > attempt is being made states 'Connecting to <server-name>:57040. I > expect the port to be 8080. When the command-line launch command, > shown in the slave configuration, is issued, the slave starts just > fine; the port used is 8080. > > thanks, > > -jk
