Enabling JMX Access to a JVM

Internal

• JMX

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Overview

Is this the "remote mode"?

-Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote

More on this and the Attach API (Java 6 and beyond).

Parse and translate http://docs.oracle.com/javase/1.5.0/docs/guide/management/agent.html

Until Java 6, in order to make a JVM accessible to a JMX client, it had to be started with -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote command line option. For Java 6 and beyond, a JMX client can connect using the Attach API.

A JMX client can access a JVM using a "local mode" (The attach API? Is this what VisualVM uses when attaching to "Local"? or a "remote mode" (see Enabling JMX Access to a JVM below).

WildFly and JMX

This is NOT the preferred method to connect to a WildFly instance with a JMX client. For more details see WildFly and JMX.