Not sure if this is a bug but what I was looking for is to be able to know from Jenkins Dashboard that a job I am monitoring has 'started'. In other, I want to know that the job is 'In Progress'.

On Jenkins dashboard, I can see that a new build gets registered straight away after the external job completes but there was no indication that the job was 'running'.

I am using Jenkins 1.581 (localhost) in a MAC and the process being monitored in a java process running locally as well.