Manage Jenkins
 | Configure global settings and paths. |
 | Secure Jenkins; define who is allowed to access/use the system. |
 | Configure the credential providers and types |
 | Configure tools, their locations and automatic installers. |
 | Discard all the loaded data in memory and reload everything from file system.
Useful when you modified config files directly on disk. |
 | Add, remove, disable or enable plugins that can extend the functionality of Jenkins. (updates available) |
 | Displays various environmental information to assist trouble-shooting. |
 | System log captures output from java.util.logging output related to Jenkins. |
 | Check your resource utilization and see if you need more computers for your builds. |
 | Access/manage Jenkins from your shell, or from your script. |
 | Executes arbitrary script for administration/trouble-shooting/diagnostics. |
 | Add, remove, control and monitor the various nodes that Jenkins runs jobs on. |
| Handle permissions by creating roles and assigning them to users/groups |
 | Configure a single aspect across a group of items, in contrast to the traditional configuration of all aspects of a single item |
 | See the version and license information. |
 | Scrub configuration files to remove remnants from old plugins and earlier versions. |
 | Restart once no jobs are running. |
 | e.g. settings.xml for maven, central managed scripts, custom files, ... |
 | Configure global templates for Editable Email Notification Plugin |
| Store/edit/run scripts on any of the slaves or the master. |
| Allows a Jenkins administrator to review proposed scripts (written e.g. in Groovy) which run inside the Jenkins process and so could bypass security restrictions. |
| Monitoring of memory, cpu, http requests and more in Jenkins master. You can also view the monitoring of Jenkins nodes. |
 | Stops executing new builds, so that the system can be eventually shut down safely. |