`~/home/.sonar/cache` folder with several MB of unused plugins

[anon67236913]

Hi,

this is a well known problem, see this thread for all the details

Restriction of the download of scanner plugins to those that are essentially needed

Hi, I have tried before, but IMO this needs to be pushed further and the real urgency has not been sufficiently appreciated - the forum has a bunch of related postings. We run a central Sonarqube instance that is accessed from multiple network areas in a very restrictive environment, which means there are a lot of proxies, web gateways and content security scans involved. We have a LOT of Jenkins setups (one controller and several agents) for special purposes, i.e. some Jenkins unit does o…

The related jira tickets
https://sonarsource.atlassian.net/browse/SONAR-19996
https://sonarsource.atlassian.net/browse/SONAR-19994

Gilbert