Hudson as passive server

Question

Is it possible to use Hudson only as a passive server,i.e, not using it for building purpose instead sending build results generated by some other tool in maybe XML format and using Hudson to only display the results??

Answer 1

It's very doable.

If it's running on the same machine, such as a cron job, check out http://wiki.hudson-ci.org/display/HUDSON/Monitoring+external+jobs.

If you need to pull data from somewhere else, use a shell script as a build target, and do what you need to to stage the data locally (scp, etc.).

Answer 2

It may very well be possible using periodic builds and the URL SCM plug-in to pull in the xml files and the Plot Plug-in for display but more information is required before a more detailed answer can be provided.

What build tool are you currently using to generate build results?