We use something like the following to programatically connect to our JMX servers. You should run your server with something like the following arguments:
-Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote
-Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.authenticate=false
-Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.port=1234
-Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.ssl=false
To bind to a particular address you'll need to add the following VM arguments:
-Djava.rmi.server.hostname=A.B.C.D
Then you can connect to your server using JMX client code like the following:
String host = "localhost"; // or some A.B.C.D
int port = 1234;
String url = "service:jmx:rmi:///jndi/rmi://" + host + ":" + port + "/jmxrmi";
JMXServiceURL serviceUrl = new JMXServiceURL(url);
JMXConnector jmxConnector = JMXConnectorFactory.connect(serviceUrl, null);
try {
MBeanServerConnection mbeanConn = jmxConnector.getMBeanServerConnection();
// now query to get the beans or whatever
Set<ObjectName> beanSet = mbeanConn.queryNames(null, null);
...
} finally {
jmxConnector.close();
}
We also have code that can programatically publish itself to a particular port outside of the VM arguments but that's more fu than you need I think.
In terms of connecting "by pid", you need to be using Java6 to do it from Java land as far as I know. I've not used the following code but it seems to work.
List<VirtualMachineDescriptor> vms = VirtualMachine.list();
for (VirtualMachineDescriptor desc : vms) {
VirtualMachine vm;
try {
vm = VirtualMachine.attach(desc);
} catch (AttachNotSupportedException e) {
continue;
}
Properties props = vm.getAgentProperties();
String connectorAddress =
props.getProperty("com.sun.management.jmxremote.localConnectorAddress");
if (connectorAddress == null) {
continue;
}
JMXServiceURL url = new JMXServiceURL(connectorAddress);
JMXConnector connector = JMXConnectorFactory.connect(url);
try {
MBeanServerConnection mbeanConn = connector.getMBeanServerConnection();
Set<ObjectName> beanSet = mbeanConn.queryNames(null, null);
...
} finally {
jmxConnector.close();
}
}
I've also the author of SimpleJMX package which makes it easy to start a JMX server and publish beans to remote clients.
// create a new server listening on port 8000
JmxServer jmxServer = new JmxServer(8000);
// start our server
jmxServer.start();
// register our lookupCache object defined below
jmxServer.register(lookupCache);
jmxServer.register(someOtherObject);
// stop our server
jmxServer.stop();
It does have a client interface as well but right now it doesn't have any mechanisms to find processes by PID -- only host/port combinations are supported (in 6/2012).
