How to access Spring-boot JMX remotely

Question

I know that spring automatically expose JMX beans. I was able to access it locally using VisualVM.

However on prod how I can connect to remotely to the app using it\

Answer 1

A tested approach on Java 1.8.0_71 and Spring Boot(1.3.3.RELEASE). Append below parameters to JVM arguments for monitored JVM.

-Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.port=12348 -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.authenticate=true -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.ssl=false -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.rmi.port=12349 -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.password.file=/somewhere/jmxremote.password -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.access.file=/somewhere/jmx/jmxremote.access

The com.sun.management.jmxremote.port is used to define the fixed RMI registry port, and the com.sun.management.jmxremote.rmi.port is used to instruct JVM to use fixed RMI port, but NOT use random one.

By setting this, I am able to connect JVM client from remote host to the monitored JVM via a firewall just opening 12348 and 12349 port.

I tested using java -jar cmdline-jmxclient-0.10.3.jar user:pwd hostip:12348 on a remote machine, which generates below output(shortened just for demonstration).

java.lang:type=Runtime
java.lang:name=PS Scavenge,type=GarbageCollector
Tomcat:J2EEApplication=none,J2EEServer=none,WebModule=//localhost/,j2eeType=Filter,name=requestContextFilter
java.nio:name=mapped,type=BufferPool
Tomcat:host=localhost,type=Host
java.lang:name=Compressed Class Space,type=MemoryPool
.......

The jar is downloaded from Here.