Jenkins ssh and pull (copy) files

[marathiboy]

Hello,

I need to pull files from remote machine and send it via email as
attachment. Once the files are on Jenkins server, I can do the rest.

In order to copy (pull) files from the remote server, is there any plugin or
how can I use something like

ssh target_address cat remotefile > localfile

using ssh plugin?

Thanks

S

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[Sami Tikka]

So, making a free-style job with a shell build step which executes something like "ssh target_address cat remotefile > localfile" would not work for you?

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[Ligade, Shailesh [USA]]

Thanks,

No this is doable I guess..what I am trying to do is:

Using ssh plugin, copy wars to target environment, then I run a script on target environment to deploy those wars. If within the script, I figure out there was error in deployment, I want to get deployment logs back to Jenkins so that I can send them as email attachment.

So I need logs, only if I detect error. And logs can be huge..so I just don't want to cat them with in my script and let it go to console out..So I was looking for elegent elegant solution. I guess, I can set up another job with ssh command you have mentioned, if my deployment job fails due to deployment error (some parameter to the new job)..

Thanks

S

[Fred G]

Hi,

The Copy To Slave Plugin (https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Copy+To+Slave+Plugin)
can copy back files to the master. Currently this is only available as a post-build action, so I'm not
sure if the files will be available to send them as attachments.
Nevertheless it might still be cleaner than using ssh.

It shouldn't be a big deal to change the plugin so that "copy back to master" is available as a normal
build step.

HTH,

Fred

[Ligade, Shailesh [USA]]

Thanks Fred,

I guess this would have worked..but I am not deploying to slave..it is totally different VM, where I run bash script via SSH copy plugin..

All I need is copy few log files back to master Jenkins, if my script determines that deployment was failure, and attach the files to email.

Thanks

S

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[Fred G]

Oh, ok.
I guess you have a good reason why you are not running a Jenkins slave on this remote machine?

It saves a lot of file copying trouble. ;)