Jenkins slave agent launch fails

Question

When launching a slave agent from a slave machine using the \"Launch agent from browser on slave\" option, it fails. It opens a window for slave-agent.jnlp and when opened with

Answer 1

After installing the Jenkins slave as a service, go to the configured "Remote root directory" on your slave, open the jenkins-slave.xml file in a text editor, add -noCertificateCheck to the end of the tag, and restart the service. That should get rid of the certificate exception.