Enabling JMX for Tomcat running as a Windows service

[Kees de Kooter]

When tomcat is started with the batch file it is recognized by both JConsole and VisualVM as a local proces. No problem there.

However if tomcat is started as a windows service this is not the case. After a lot of tinkering I came to the following solution. In the registry (cough) under key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Apache Software Foundation\Procrun 2.0\node1\Parameters\Java I added the following lines to the Options attribute:


-Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote
-Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.port=1092
-Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.ssl=false
-Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.authenticate=false


Now JConsole can connect as a "Remote process". In VisualVM you add a Local / JMX Connection.

[kjkoster]

Dear Kees,

Uhm, is there no field for this in the Tomcat tray icon widget thingy?

Kees Jan

[Kees de Kooter]

Yes there is, on the "Java" tab under "Java Options".