How to configure Jenkins to send a notification email when a Slave goes offline?

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Júlio Griebeler picture Júlio Griebeler · Apr 2, 2013 · Viewed 7.9k times · Source

How to configure Jenkins to send a notification email when a Slave goes offline? I have a Windows Server in the Cloud. In there is a Jenkins Slave running that runs a nightly build, but sometimes the Slave goes offline and I need to know when it goes offline. How can I configure to Jenkins send me a email notification in this case?

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Stephen Ash picture Stephen Ash · May 10, 2013

The setting that Lars mentions does not seem to come with a default Jenkins installation (v1.514). I see it with the Mail watcher plugin

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