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A butler is a domestic worker in a large household. In great houses, the household is sometimes divided into departments with the butler in charge of the dining room, wine cellar, and pantry. Some also have charge of the entire parlour floor, and housekeepers caring for the entire house and its appearance.


Kohsuke Kawaguchi, the founder of Hudson project which then forked into currently known as Jenkins, He fondly calls it a butler which can get your task done according to your order. Hudson as well as Jenkins are very British sounding names where butler services originated and still are pretty popular. This is the motivation which Kohsuke Kawaguchi and  also time to time Kohsuke Kawaguchi casually mentions in his talks about this.

How to start jenkins in windows | How to restart jenkins server in windows machine | How to stop jenkins in windows

To restart the jenkins server in windows machines do the following:

Open the Command prompt
Go to your Jenkins installation directory (Default it is located under  under C://Programfiles//Jenkins)and execute the below commands

To Stop Jenkins:
jenkins.exe stop

To Start Jenkins:
jenkins.exe start

To Restart Jenkins:
jenkins.exe restart

How to change jenkins default port 8080

Follow these simple steps and change the default port number on Jenkins.

• Go to the Jenkins directory we installed the Jenkins (By default, it is located under C://Program Files//Jenkins)
• Open the Jenkins.xml file.
• Search for "httpPort=8080" (as shown in below image) and replace the "8080" with the new port number that you want to change, you can put 8081.

• Save it and restart the Jenkins.
• Browse the Jenkins url as https://localhost:8081