Minor When a job running on a remote node "fails" because the connection drops, it should be possible to restart it automatically. Currently it's cumbersome to get a list of the failed children jobs and checking how they failed by grepping for java.io.EOFException in their log files.
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/jenkinsci-users/sjnF6zlPd3Q
This is how the failure looks in the children job console output:
Building remotely on instance-1 (tag1) in workspace /var/lib/jenkins/workspace/eval [vmu-eval-single] $ /bin/sh -xe /tmp/jenkins4616924287086740166.sh + /path/to/evaluation-tool FATAL: command execution failed java.io.EOFException at java.io.ObjectInputStream$PeekInputStream.readFully(ObjectInputStream.java:2681) at java.io.ObjectInputStream$BlockDataInputStream.readShort(ObjectInputStream.java:3156) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readStreamHeader(ObjectInputStream.java:862) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.<init>(ObjectInputStream.java:358) at hudson.remoting.ObjectInputStreamEx.<init>(ObjectInputStreamEx.java:49) at hudson.remoting.Command.readFrom(Command.java:140) at hudson.remoting.Command.readFrom(Command.java:126) at hudson.remoting.AbstractSynchronousByteArrayCommandTransport.read(AbstractSynchronousByteArrayCommandTransport.java:36) at hudson.remoting.SynchronousCommandTransport$ReaderThread.run(SynchronousCommandTransport.java:63) Caused: java.io.IOException: Unexpected termination of the channel at hudson.remoting.SynchronousCommandTransport$ReaderThread.run(SynchronousCommandTransport.java:77) Caused: java.io.IOException: Backing channel 'instance-1' is disconnected. at hudson.remoting.RemoteInvocationHandler.channelOrFail(RemoteInvocationHandler.java:214) at hudson.remoting.RemoteInvocationHandler.invoke(RemoteInvocationHandler.java:283) at com.sun.proxy.$Proxy78.isAlive(Unknown Source) at hudson.Launcher$RemoteLauncher$ProcImpl.isAlive(Launcher.java:1144) at hudson.Launcher$RemoteLauncher$ProcImpl.join(Launcher.java:1136) at hudson.tasks.CommandInterpreter.join(CommandInterpreter.java:155) at hudson.tasks.CommandInterpreter.perform(CommandInterpreter.java:109) at hudson.tasks.CommandInterpreter.perform(CommandInterpreter.java:66) at hudson.tasks.BuildStepMonitor$1.perform(BuildStepMonitor.java:20) at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractBuildExecution.perform(AbstractBuild.java:744) at hudson.model.Build$BuildExecution.build(Build.java:206) at hudson.model.Build$BuildExecution.doRun(Build.java:163) at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractBuildExecution.run(AbstractBuild.java:504) at hudson.model.Run.execute(Run.java:1816) at hudson.model.FreeStyleBuild.run(FreeStyleBuild.java:43) at hudson.model.ResourceController.execute(ResourceController.java:97) at hudson.model.Executor.run(Executor.java:429)
