How to Restart Jenkins

• Login to the Jenkins server using powershell or Putty
• In order to check of the jenkins process is running or not; execute the below command; This will give you the process Id if it is running.

                        > ps -ef | grep jenkins

• Jenkins service can be started/stopped/restarted only as a root user. So change to the root user and do the action as below

                        > sudo su
                        > sudo service jenkins start

• If the service is not detected using this script; do the following

                       > /etc/init.d/jenkins start

• The above command will start your jenkins server. Now open the Jenkins web page in browser and check for the status.