Jenkins CLI

To access the Jenkins CLI feature’s page through the operations center interface and download the CLI tool:

1. Access the Manage Jenkins area
2. On the Manage Jenkins page, scroll down and click Jenkins CLI
3. On the Jenkins CLI page, click the jenkins-cli.jar link to download the CLI tool
4. Move the jenkins-cli.jar file to an appropriate location on your machine’s file system

Generate token for your user:

1. Go to your user in top right menu
2. Click Configure
3. On API Token click on Add new token
4. Save it for the next commands

Get all possible commands:

java -jar jenkins-cli.jar -s http://127.0.0.1:8080/ --auth admin:11cd450e8f9e3f52cb60ea9d35d0387299 help

List jobs:

java -jar jenkins-cli.jar -s http://127.0.0.1:8080/ -auth admin:11cd450e8f9e3f52cb60ea9d35d0387299 list-jobs

Build Job:

java -jar jenkins-cli.jar -s http://127.0.0.1:8080/ -auth admin:11cd450e8f9e3f52cb60ea9d35d0387299 build test

Restart Jenkins:

java -jar jenkins-cli.jar -s http://127.0.0.1:8080/ -auth admin:11cd450e8f9e3f52cb60ea9d35d0387299 restart

Install/update plugin github-branch-source:

java -jar jenkins-cli.jar -s http://127.0.0.1:8080/ -auth admin:11cd450e8f9e3f52cb60ea9d35d0387299 install-plugin cloudbees-bitbucket-branch-source

Disable plugin:

java -jar jenkins-cli.jar -s http://127.0.0.1:8080/ -auth admin:11cd450e8f9e3f52cb60ea9d35d0387299 disable-plugin github-branch-source