> This would be a starting point - there is also a cli and a way to use > groovy to access the whole api. > https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Remote+access+API > > Reviewed the above, and saw this " *When your Jenkins is secured, you can use HTTP BASIC authentication to authenticate remote API requests. See Authenticating scripted clients<https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Authenticating+scripted+clients> **for more details*."
IMHO this is a piece of "ill-advice". With our POC setup, and many other nodes running HTTP services, we simply use ssh forwarding for access using the localhost of the machine we are on. That is, most of our HTTP services are configured to offer HTTP services to their respective localhost only. This should be a common practice everywhere IMHO. -- Zack
