Hudson - Setting up Windows Slave

Several of my colleagues  had trouble installing Hudson slave on a Windows machine. I was at a client site, and so decided to write step-by-step instructions for installing the same. It worked, and everyone was happy. So, here comes the instructions with screen shots.

1.    Log into the windows machine where the slave needs to be setup.
2.    Open up a browser and connect to the master. http://yourmaster:yourport. In my case, it is http://windowsserver:7223
3.    Click on Manage Hudson -> Manage Nodes. This will bring the following page:

4. Click on New Node. Provide a slave name and check on Dumb Node, and click OK.

5.Next, provide all the details for this slave

6. Save the setting. Put the slave.jar in a folder. From this folder run the following command:

java -jar slave.jar -jnlpUrl http://yourmasterserver:7223/computer/windowsslave/slave-agent.jnlp

windowsslave is the name you gave for the slave machine

7. This will start the slave, and you should see it running as follows:

 8.    And the slave should be listed on your Hudson Master dashboard as shown below:

The folder specified while configuring the slave will have the following slaves libraries downloaded:

• maven2.1-interceptor.jar
• maven-agent.jar
• maven-interceptor.jar

Wasn't that easy?