Had it been on Linux the problem would be that localhost is the loopback interface, you need to application to bind to your network interface. You can use the netstat to confirm that it is not bound to the expected network interface. You can make this work by invoking the program with the system parameter … Read more
The following command line JMX utilities are available: jmxterm – seems to be the most fully featured utility. cmdline-jmxclient – used in the WebArchive project seems very bare bones (and no development since 2006 it looks like) Groovy script and JMX – provides some really powerful JMX functionality but requires groovy and other library setup. … Read more
I have a solution for this: If your Java process is running on Linux behind a firewall and you want to start JConsole / Java VisualVM / Java Mission Control on Windows on your local machine to connect it to the JMX Port of your Java process. You need access to your linux machine via … Read more
Since JDK 7 you can use the JDK command tool ‘jcmd’ such as: jcmd <pid> GC.run
The relevant documentation can be found here: http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/technotes/guides/management/agent.html Start your program with following parameters: -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.port=9010 -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.rmi.port=9010 -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.local.only=false -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.authenticate=false -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.ssl=false For instance like this: java -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote \ -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.port=9010 \ -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.local.only=false \ -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.authenticate=false \ -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.ssl=false \ -jar Notepad.jar -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.local.only=false is not necessarily required but without it, it doesn’t work on Ubuntu. The error would be something … Read more