Managing Tomcat
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Setup Tomcat for monitoring
Instructions to manage remotely Tomcat are available in Tomcat's monitoring documentation.
I added the following parameters to my tomcat startup script:
set JAVA_OPTS=-Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.port=9003 -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.ssl=false -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.password.file=c:\server\tomcat\jmxremote.password -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.access.file=c:\server\tomcat\jmxremote.access
with jmxremote.password containing
monitorRole tomcat controlRole tomcat
and jmxremote.access containing
monitorRole readonly controlRole readwrite
Monitor Tomcat using JMXplorer
Add a new MBean Server
Open the "MBean servers Explorer" view (Window->Show View->Other->JMXplorer/MBean servers Explorer), right click on the view and add a new MBean server :
- Url : service:jmx:rmi:///jndi/rmi://localhost:9003/jmxrmi
- Username : controlRole
- Password : tomcat
Connect to MBean Server
Right-click on the newly added MBean server and select Connect
Monitor a jmx bean
You can then navigate in the tree, select a jmx bean and open it in the Jmx Attributes view
This view shows the jmx attributes, the operations (not implemented yet) and notifications.
Some values can me modified and for some of them (identified by a small icon in the second column) you can display a chart by double-clicking on the second column.
Creating a dashboard
Select File/New/Other.../JmxPlorer/Jmx dashboard
You can then create a dashboard by adding picture, text, charts :
- by clicking on the palette icons
- by dragging a jmx attribute from the Jmx Attributes view
