How to have JMX bind to a specific interface?

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Marc Novakowski picture Marc Novakowski · Dec 1, 2008 · Viewed 20.7k times · Source

I am currently starting my Java VM with the com.sun.management.jmxremote.* properties so that I can connect to it via JConsole for management and monitoring. Unfortunately, it listens on all interfaces (IP addresses) on the machine.

In our environment, there are often cases where there is more than one Java VM running on a machine at the same time. While it's possible to tell JMX to listen on different TCP ports (using com.sun.management.jmxremote.port), it would be nice to instead have JMX use the standard JMX port and just bind to a specific IP address (rather than all of them).

This would make it much easier to figure out which VM we're connecting to via JConsole (since each VM effectively "owns" its own IP address). Has anyone figured out how to make JMX listen on a single IP address or hostname?

Answer

Gašper picture Gašper · Sep 6, 2016

If anyone else will be losing his nerves with this ... After 10 years, they finally fixed it!

Since Java 8u102 -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.host binds to the selected IP

see: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-6425769

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