Jenkins configuration

Configuration

To access Jenkins configuration click on "Manage Jenkins" from the homepage

Plugins

First of all, update all the default plugins and then install new ones. Recommended list of plugins:

Mandatory

• Next build number plugin

Monitoring

• Build monitor plugin
• Disk usage plugin
• Status monitor plugin

Code quality

• SonarQube plugin

Build control

• Naginator plugin >> to reschedule a failed build
• Build-timeout plugin

Don't forget to restart Jenkins after installations !

Security configuration

You can use Safe HTML to make your job description a bit nicer. :-)

System configuration

Go to "Configure System"

Main settings

• # of executors: 2
• Quiet period: 60

JDK

• ORACLE JDK 7  ; /usr/lib/jvm/java-7-oracle
• ORACLE JDK 8  ; /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-oracle

MAVEN

• Point to your own installation (not the bundled one)

URL

• URL must match the service configuration !!

 Like: http://vc076:8080/jenkins-guillaume

Disk usage

Let the default option, just tick both checkboxes:

• Show disk usage trend graph on the project page
• Show free space of jobs directory in global graph

Subversion

You can set version 1.7 if your repository supports it

Sonar

• Server URL: http://localhost:9000
• Sonar account login: jenkins
• Sonar account password: jenkins
• Database URL: jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/sonar?autoReconnect=true&useUnicode=true&characterEncoding=utf8
• Database login: sonar
• Database password: sonar
• Database driver: com.mysql.jdbc.driver
• Additional properties: -Dsonar.login=jenkins -Dsonar.password=jenkins

Installation screenshot: