Monitor you Java application remotely

Perhaps you used jconsole or newer jvisualvm to monitor Java application on your machine.

Or, may be you monitored your tomcat server remotely using this type of URI in jconsole

'service:jmx:rmi:///jndi/rmi://server:9024/jmxrmi'

Now, its time to do the same for the Java application you have written.

The idea to expose your platform MBean server through RMI

// get the MBean server.

MBeanServer mbs = ManagementFactory.getPlatformMBeanServer();

// expose the MBean server through a service URL.

JMXServiceURL url = new JMXServiceURL("service:jmx:rmi:///jndi/rmi://localhost:9999/server");

JMXConnectorServer cs = JMXConnectorServerFactory.newJMXConnectorServer(url, null,mbs);

cs.start();

Ohh.. you have to open an RMI registry at port 9999, for sure.

rmiregistry 9999

Now, what are the benefits are you having monitoring remotely?

- First of all, using jconsole, jvisualvm can be a big performance issue for the application you are running on the same machine. Moreover, you production server is an Ubuntu server, so you cannot run Jconsole.