How to force Jenkins to launch webpage/ cmd prompt in client (user's) machine?

Question

The job that I was trying to create in Jenkins would require launching a webpage on the user's browser once the build is successful (Jenkins is installed on a remote server). For doing this I put the following line in the " Build - Execute Windows batch command" section of the job's Configure page:

START http://google.com

While the build was successful, it did not launch the page. I have a hunch, this line will try to launch the webpage in the remote Jenkins server (it did not launch anything in the slave node though). My question is, how do I force the Jenkins job to launch the webpage in the user's default browser ?

I tried launching client's cmd.exe - this did not work either.

Jenkins master, slave, user's client - everything is on Windows. Jenkins version 1.46.

Thanks!

Answer 1

By "launch in client's machine" you mean the user that is accessing the web interface of Jenkins? No, this won't happen. It can be quite a security risk too.

You can do what you are asking either on the master or the slave. Jenkins does not directly execute anything that is not on master/slave. It is possible to spawn a slave on user's machine, and when the job is run, it will execute the command on the slave.

Or if the user provides his/her computer IP address as a parameter to the job, you could use PsExec to connect to user's computer to execute a command.