There are many posts over the Internet on how to do it right, but unfortunately none worked for me (debian behind firewall on the server side, reached over VPN from my local Mac). Therefore, i’m sharing below the solution that worked for me.

1. Check server ip

hostname -i

2. use JVM params:

-Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote
-Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.port=[jmx port]
-Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.local.only=false
-Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.authenticate=false
-Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.ssl=false
-Djava.rmi.server.hostname=[server ip from step 1]

3. Run application

4. Find pid of the running java process

5. Check all ports used by JMX/RMI

netstat -lp | grep [pid from step 4]

6. Open all ports from step 5 on the firewall

Cheers!

Tagged: JConsole, JMX, JVM, VisualVM