Unable to use JConsole with Tomcat running as windows service

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Kees de Kooter picture Kees de Kooter · Feb 2, 2009 · Viewed 29.5k times · Source

I am running tomcat 6.0.18 as a windows service. In the service applet the jvm is configured default, i.e. it is using jvm.dll of the JRE.

I am trying to monitor this application with JConsole but cannot connect to it locally. I added the parameter -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote (which works when starting tomcat with the start.bat script). But the jvm does not seem to pick up the parameter.

Answer

Ed Thomas picture Ed Thomas · Feb 17, 2009

There's a nice GUI to edit the options, no need to muck around in the registry.

Open up the C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 6.0\bin\tomcat6.exe (or just double-click on the monitor icon in the task bar). Go to the Java pane, add the following to the list of arguments, and restart Tomcat.

-Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote
-Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.port=8086
-Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.ssl=false
-Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.authenticate=false

Then you can connect with JConsole or the newer VisualVM.

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