[Xymon] Help with jmxstat

xymon at asitshouldbe.com xymon at asitshouldbe.com
Sat Apr 1 20:11:53 CEST 2017


Thanks, Martin. I'll check out Jolokia.

I've started experimenting with jboss-cli.sh to gather some of the more critical stats. I've got that feeding into Xymon now. The next step is to get graphing working.

Ron


Martin Lenko <lenko99 at gmail.com> wrote ..
> Hi,
> jboss doesn't use standard jmx protocol but it's own remoting protocol.
> I remember working around it by taking jboss-client.jar from jboss and
> rebuilding jmxsh.jar. It also required a bit of a code change to get jmxsh
> use it. At the end I abandoned the idea of using this approach because the
> remoting client seemed to have a memory leak, using up all the heap space -
> basically the monitoring was killing jboss apps.
> 
> Have a look at Jolokia https://jolokia.org/
> It should allow you to query JMX over HTTP.
> 
> Regards,
> Martin
> 
> On 29 March 2017 at 23:14, <xymon at asitshouldbe.com> wrote:
> 
> > I'm trying to set up jmxstat from xymonton.org to monitor information
> > about JBoss 7.1 on 64-bit Oracle Linux 6.7 with Java 1.7.0_75. I have
> > followed the instructions for both the client and server side. The jmxstat
> > test appears on the Xymon server and is updating every 5 minutes as
> > expected.
> >
> > I'm continuously getting the error:
> >
> > myclient.mydomain.com  JMX - connection failed for JVM
> >
> > I don't know enough about Java or JBoss to know where to start looking.
> >
> > The instructions for jmxstat say this:
> >
> > "The JVM will need to be restarted with additional options that enable the
> > JMX module and define the port & credentials."
> >
> > What additional options are needed and where are these configured?
> >
> > The admin port is 9999 and netstat shows that it's listening.
> >
> > I did use the add-user.sh script to create the username and password in
> > the mgtm-users.properties file for JBoss.
> >
> > Any suggestions?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> >
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