Thank you much Scott. I don't quite understand it fully -- expected as I don't understand the Jenkins terminology yet. Let me try out whatever you mentioned and I will send updates / follow up questions after that.
Thanks, -Hari On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 11:45 AM, Scott Evans <[email protected]> wrote: > Just put a label on the agents and assign both the build and test jobs to > that label and it should work just as you expect. Note that unless you use > a matrix configuration, a job will only use one agent at a time, so you'd > want to look into matrix jobs if you have several sets of tests you want to > run against a single job configuration. > > > On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 12:51 PM, Hari Kodungallur <[email protected] > > wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I am a new Jenkins user. I am looking through tools that have a support >> for the following functionality or similar. >> >> I want to configure a pool of agents that can either do builds or tests. >> But when a particular type of test comes in, I would like to use all >> available agents and kick off tests on them. >> >> Suppose I have 5 agents in the pool. They are just waiting for jobs -- >> builds or tests. Let us say two of them get busy doing builds. And at this >> time I kick off my test. It should detect that three of the agents are idle >> and kick off tests on the three agents. At a later time, possibly all 5 >> agents are idle and I want the test to be kicked off on all 5 of them. >> >> I am wondering if there a feature or a plugin in Jenkins that can >> accomplish this task. >> >> Thank you much. >> -Hari >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Jenkins Users" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "Jenkins Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/jenkinsci-users/OlYAG-zu4dg/unsubscribe?hl=en > . > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Jenkins Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
