Connecting remote tomcat JMX instance using jConsole

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Niger picture Niger · Aug 12, 2009 · Viewed 84.4k times · Source

I am trying to connect to a remote tomcat JMX instance using jConsole. But can't connect successfully. Any Idea?

I included the following option in remote tomcat catalina.sh:

JAVA_OPTS="$JAVA_OPTS -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote \
    -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.port=9004 \
    -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.ssl=false \
    -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.authenticate=false"

Answer

waxwing picture waxwing · Aug 19, 2009

I had a similar, if not the same, problem. I could connect to the JMX server if I started jconsole locally on the machine.

It appears the RMI server was not listening on the correct ip. So, as was suggested in this related question, I added the following:

-Djava.rmi.server.hostname=<host ip>

to JAVA_OPTS as well, and then it worked.

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