More about the active Jenkins slave

In the following section, we will take a look at the various other configurable options available to us for the Jenkins slave agent that we have just added. Jenkins also provides a lot of general information about its slaves that we will see here. Follow these steps:

1. From the Jenkins dashboard, click on Manage Jenkins | Manage Nodes.
2. On the right-hand side you will also see a table showing the list of available Jenkins slaves. New to the list will be our newly added Jenkins slave.
3. Click on the Jenkins slave name to access its configurations and metadata.

4. On the resultant page (Jenkins slave Status page), on the left-hand side menu you will see a few options, as shown in the following screenshot:

Jenkins slave page

5. Most of the preceding links (from the preceding screenshot) are self-explanatory. However, let's look at some of them in detail.
6. The Log link is where you will find all the logs with respect to the Jenkins slave. After adding a Jenkins slave, if it...