Maintenance

The new VM was set up today, so Greg built it with Ubuntu 12.04, and I ran my Jinks-builder script on it. Everything seemed to go perfectly, and presumably it's building away behind the scenes, but because the ACL prevents any access to it except on port 22, I can't get in to finish the setup yet. We'll get there eventually...

gsettings set org.gnome.shell.clock show-date true

I've completed the Jenkins build script, after some more tweaking and testing, and it's working fine. I've updated the wiki page about it, and GN has put in a request for a new VM we can build up to replace the old one. Learned quite a lot in the process of doing this. The horrible curl request in the previous post actually works, if you do it at the right time (after downloading all the jobs, setting them up, and restarting Jenkins so it knows the jobs are there).

I think we may be able to do the form submit to generate configs like this:

curl -d "_.rawWorkspaceDir=%24%7BITEM_ROOTDIR%7D%2Fworkspace&_.rawBuildsDir=%24%7BITEM_ROOTDIR%7D%2Fbuilds&system_message=&_.numExecutors=2&_.quietPeriod=5&_.scmCheckoutRetryCount=0&namingStrategy=0&stapler-class=jenkins.model.ProjectNamingStrategy%24DefaultProjectNamingStrategy&stapler-class=jenkins.model.ProjectNamingStrategy%24PatternProjectNamingStrategy&_.namePattern=.*&slaveAgentPort.type=random&stapler-class=hudson.markup.RawHtmlMarkupFormatter&stapler-class=hudson.security.LegacySecurityRealm&stapler-class=hudson.security.HudsonPrivateSecurityRealm&privateRealm.allowsSignup=on&stapler-class=hudson.security.LDAPSecurityRealm&ldap.server=&ldap.rootDN=&ldap.userSearchBase=&ldap.userSearch=&ldap.groupSearchBase=&ldap.managerDN=&ldap.managerPassword=&stapler-class=hudson.security.PAMSecurityRealm&_.serviceName=&authorization=0&stapler-class=hudson.security.AuthorizationStrategy%24Unsecured&stapler-class=hudson.security.LegacyAuthorizationStrategy&stapler-class=hudson.security.FullControlOnceLoggedInAuthorizationStrategy&stapler-class=hudson.security.GlobalMatrixAuthorizationStrategy&stapler-class=hudson.security.ProjectMatrixAuthorizationStrategy&stapler-class=hudson.security.csrf.DefaultCrumbIssuer&name=jobConfigHistory&historyRootDir=&maxHistoryEntries=&excludePattern=queue%7CnodeMonitors%7CUpdateCenter%7Cglobal-build-stats&globalMavenOpts=&stapler-class=hudson.maven.local_repo.DefaultLocalRepositoryLocator&stapler-class=hudson.maven.local_repo.PerExecutorLocalRepositoryLocator&stapler-class=hudson.maven.local_repo.PerJobLocalRepositoryLocator&_.usageStatisticsCollected=on&port.type=random&_.cvsExe=&_.cvspassFile=&svn.workspaceFormat=8&svn.global_excluded_revprop=&svn.storeAuthToDisk=on&shell=&_.url=http%3A%2F%2Flocalhost%3A7070%2F&_.smtpServer=&_.defaultSuffix=&_.adminAddress=address+not+configured+yet+%3Cnobody%40nowhere%3E&_.smtpAuthUserName=&_.smtpAuthPassword=&_.smtpPort=&_.replyToAddress=&_.charset=UTF-8&sendTestMailTo=&log-parser.name=TEI+Log+Parse+Rules&log-parser.path=%2Fvar%2Flib%2Fjenkins%2Fhudson-log-parse-rules&log-parser.name=&log-parser.path=&core%3Aapply=&json=%7B%22rawWorkspaceDir%22%3A+%22%24%7BITEM_ROOTDIR%7D%2Fworkspace%22%2C+%22rawBuildsDir%22%3A+%22%24%7BITEM_ROOTDIR%7D%2Fbuilds%22%2C+%22system_message%22%3A+%22%22%2C+%22%22%3A+%22%22%2C+%22jenkins-model-MasterBuildConfiguration%22%3A+%7B%22numExecutors%22%3A+%222%22%7D%2C+%22jenkins-model-GlobalQuietPeriodConfiguration%22%3A+%7B%22quietPeriod%22%3A+%225%22%7D%2C+%22jenkins-model-GlobalSCMRetryCountConfiguration%22%3A+%7B%22scmCheckoutRetryCount%22%3A+%220%22%7D%2C+%22jenkins-model-GlobalProjectNamingStrategyConfiguration%22%3A+%7B%7D%2C+%22hudson-security-GlobalSecurityConfiguration%22%3A+%7B%7D%2C+%22hudson-security-csrf-GlobalCrumbIssuerConfiguration%22%3A+%7B%7D%2C+%22jenkins-model-GlobalNodePropertiesConfiguration%22%3A+%7B%22globalNodeProperties%22%3A+%7B%7D%7D%2C+%22jenkins-model-GlobalPluginConfiguration%22%3A+%7B%22plugin%22%3A+%7B%22name%22%3A+%22jobConfigHistory%22%2C+%22historyRootDir%22%3A+%22%22%2C+%22maxHistoryEntries%22%3A+%22%22%2C+%22saveSystemConfiguration%22%3A+false%2C+%22excludePattern%22%3A+%22queue%7CnodeMonitors%7CUpdateCenter%7Cglobal-build-stats%22%2C+%22skipDuplicateHistory%22%3A+false%7D%7D%2C+%22hudson-maven-MavenModuleSet%22%3A+%7B%22globalMavenOpts%22%3A+%22%22%2C+%22%22%3A+%220%22%2C+%22localRepository%22%3A+%7B%22stapler-class%22%3A+%22hudson.maven.local_repo.DefaultLocalRepositoryLocator%22%7D%7D%2C+%22hudson-model-UsageStatistics%22%3A+%7B%22usageStatisticsCollected%22%3A+%7B%7D%7D%2C+%22org-jenkinsci-main-modules-sshd-SSHD%22%3A+%7B%22port%22%3A+%7B%22value%22%3A+%22%22%2C+%22type%22%3A+%22random%22%7D%7D%2C+%22hudson-scm-CVSSCM%22%3A+%7B%22cvsExe%22%3A+%22%22%2C+%22cvspassFile%22%3A+%22%22%2C+%22cvs_noCompression%22%3A+false%7D%2C+%22hudson-scm-SubversionSCM%22%3A+%7B%22workspaceFormat%22%3A+%228%22%2C+%22global_excluded_revprop%22%3A+%22%22%2C+%22storeAuthToDisk%22%3A+%7B%7D%7D%2C+%22hudson-tasks-Shell%22%3A+%7B%22shell%22%3A+%22%22%7D%2C+%22hudson-tasks-Mailer%22%3A+%7B%22url%22%3A+%22http%3A%2F%2Flocalhost%3A7070%2F%22%2C+%22smtpServer%22%3A+%22%22%2C+%22defaultSuffix%22%3A+%22%22%2C+%22adminAddress%22%3A+%22address+not+configured+yet+%3Cnobody%40nowhere%3E%22%2C+%22useSsl%22%3A+false%2C+%22smtpPort%22%3A+%22%22%2C+%22replyToAddress%22%3A+%22%22%2C+%22charset%22%3A+%22UTF-8%22%7D%2C+%22hudson-plugins-logparser-LogParserPublisher%22%3A+%7B%22rule%22%3A+%5B%7B%22name%22%3A+%22TEI+Log+Parse+Rules%22%2C+%22path%22%3A+%22%2Fvar%2Flib%2Fjenkins%2Fhudson-log-parse-rules%22%7D%2C+%7B%22name%22%3A+%22%22%2C+%22path%22%3A+%22%22%7D%5D%7D%2C+%22core%3Aapply%22%3A+%22%22%7D&Submit=Save" http://localhost:8080/configSubmit

Updated the wiki page after testing the build a couple more times, so now the wiki points to the current version of the script in SVN and gives appropriate instructions. However, I still haven't solved the log-parse-rules file issue. I will have to figure out some way to watch what happens when that Save button in the config screen is clicked, and mimick it using curl or wget. It's very messy.

I'm trying to figure out an easy way of putting a Jenkins config (config.xml) file into the directory where it's expecting it to be, in the hope that this will cause Jinks to use the correct log parse rules when running jobs. I can create a generic config file, but I want to make sure that it doesn't have the wrong Jenkins build number in it. Once I have the right build number from the current Jenkins instance, I'll be able to pass it as a parameter to an XSLT transformation. Here's one approach which works:

wget -O /tmp/jinks.html http://localhost:8080
JINKSBUILD=`grep -oP '(?<=Jenkins ver\. )(1.[0-9\.]+)(?=</a>)' /tmp/jinks.html`

I'm also going to investigate the option of using the Jenkins CLI interface.

Finished setting up all the new monitors after finding a bunch of HDMI cables on my chair this morning. Everyone now has a 3840x1080 desktop!