How to manage offline agents using groovy?

I have some agents connected via ssh and some agents (windows) connected via swarm plugin. Many times these agents go offline and cannot recover. I manually remove them by deleting the questioned agents, e.g. Manage Jenkins  Manage Nodes  NODE_NAME  Delete Agent.

How can I do this via groovy? Basically, get a list of offline agents, check the agent log for some text patterns, and if the strings match, then delete the offline agent.

We’re not aware of any script that implements the described steps. However, in the Jenkins Script Console you can find some examples similar to what you are looking for.

For example the Monitor and Restart Offline Agents script can help you to start.

Then, you need to code the second part in which you want to check the agent log and delete the agent if needed.