Writing to Console Output/log from outside of a Jenkins build while build is running - is it possible ?

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Hi,

 

I kick a job off from Jenkins to run on another server using a web API call to the 3rd party application.  I would like to track its progress in the Jenkins job GUI Console Output screen - this is to enable  tracking of the progress of the job that I have kicked off - i.e. I want the external job output to appear in the Console Output while the build job is still running.

 

Is there any way that I can write back to the build jobs Console Output from outside of the job - so I can track progress. From an API if I know the build_id for example ?

 

Thanks,

 

Frank