Unable to make a remote JMX connection to tc server

[vineeth]

Hi,

I am trying to connect to my tc server developer edition 2.0.3 installation via jconsole/visualvm(i.e. via remote jmx), but I am unable to do so. In my server.xml of spring-instance-insight, I have the following setting :-

 <Listener className="com.springsource.tcserver.serviceability.rmi.JmxSocketListener"
            port="${jmx.port}"
            bind="10.120.0.152"
            useSSL="false"      
            passwordFile="${catalina.base}/conf/jmxremote.password"
            accessFile="${catalina.base}/conf/jmxremote.access"    
            authenticate="false"/>

So, I cannot connect to this server with visualvm/jconsole remotely using the connection string 10.120.0.152:6969. However, I am able to connect to the tc server if it is on my local machine. So, with the following server.xml setting:-

 <Listener className="com.springsource.tcserver.serviceability.rmi.JmxSocketListener"
            port="${jmx.port}"
            bind="127.0.0.1"
            useSSL="false"      
            passwordFile="${catalina.base}/conf/jmxremote.password"
            accessFile="${catalina.base}/conf/jmxremote.access"    
            authenticate="false"/>

I can connect to the tc server if the visualvm instance is on the same machine as the server and using the connection string localhost:6969.

Since no one else has raised has raised this issue, I must be doing something silly here. Can someone please help me out with this?

Thanks,
Vineeth.

[Jason Konicki]

That should work without a problem.

- Did you change the jmx.port in the catalina.properties to something other than 6969?

- From the remote system, what is the output of "telnet 10.120.0.152 6969"?

[vineeth]

Yep I tried all that. If I use 127.0.0.1, things are fine but I can't remote connect.

I noticed the following stacktrace in the catalina.out during startup:-

23-Nov-2010 06:54:22.979 SEVERE com.springsource.tcserver.serviceability.rmi.JmxSocketListener.init Unable to expose the remote JMX registry.
 java.io.IOException: Cannot bind to URL [rmi://vineeth-dell:6969/jmxrmi]: javax.naming.ServiceUnavailableException [Root exception is java.rmi.ConnectException: Connection refused to host: vineeth-dell; nested exception is: 
	java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused]
	at javax.management.remote.rmi.RMIConnectorServer.newIOException(RMIConnectorServer.java:804)
	at javax.management.remote.rmi.RMIConnectorServer.start(RMIConnectorServer.java:417)
	at com.springsource.tcserver.serviceability.rmi.JmxSocketListener.init(JmxSocketListener.java:129)
	at com.springsource.tcserver.serviceability.rmi.JmxSocketListener.lifecycleEvent(JmxSocketListener.java:76)
	at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:119)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.initialize(StandardServer.java:770)
	at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.load(Catalina.java:524)
	at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.load(Catalina.java:548)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
	at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
	at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.load(Bootstrap.java:261)
	at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:413)
Caused by: javax.naming.ServiceUnavailableException [Root exception is java.rmi.ConnectException: Connection refused to host: vineeth-dell; nested exception is: 
	java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused]
	at com.sun.jndi.rmi.registry.RegistryContext.bind(RegistryContext.java:126)
	at com.sun.jndi.toolkit.url.GenericURLContext.bind(GenericURLContext.java:208)
	at javax.naming.InitialContext.bind(InitialContext.java:400)
	at javax.management.remote.rmi.RMIConnectorServer.bind(RMIConnectorServer.java:625)
	at javax.management.remote.rmi.RMIConnectorServer.start(RMIConnectorServer.java:412)
	... 12 more
Caused by: java.rmi.ConnectException: Connection refused to host: vineeth-dell; nested exception is: 
	java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused
	at sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPEndpoint.newSocket(TCPEndpoint.java:601)
	at sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPChannel.createConnection(TCPChannel.java:198)
	at sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPChannel.newConnection(TCPChannel.java:184)
	at sun.rmi.server.UnicastRef.newCall(UnicastRef.java:322)
	at sun.rmi.registry.RegistryImpl_Stub.bind(Unknown Source)
	at com.sun.jndi.rmi.registry.RegistryContext.bind(RegistryContext.java:120)
	... 16 more
Caused by: java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused
	at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.socketConnect(Native Method)
	at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.doConnect(PlainSocketImpl.java:333)
	at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connectToAddress(PlainSocketImpl.java:195)
	at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connect(PlainSocketImpl.java:182)
	at java.net.SocksSocketImpl.connect(SocksSocketImpl.java:366)
	at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:525)
	at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:475)
	at java.net.Socket.<init>(Socket.java:372)
	at java.net.Socket.<init>(Socket.java:186)
	at sun.rmi.transport.proxy.RMIDirectSocketFactory.createSocket(RMIDirectSocketFactory.java:22)
	at sun.rmi.transport.proxy.RMIMasterSocketFactory.createSocket(RMIMasterSocketFactory.java:128)
	at sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPEndpoint.newSocket(TCPEndpoint.java:595)
	... 21 more

23-Nov-2010 06:54:23.67 INFO org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol.init Initializing Coyote HTTP/1.1 on http-8080
23-Nov-2010 06:54:23.196 INFO org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.start Starting service Catalina

[yadepu]

Are you running the remote application on virtual OR a physical machine.

I had the similar problem when I was running the application on a virtual machine.

I could overcome the problem by using the computer name rather than the IP address but got in other issues, still looking for a clean solution.

Thanks,
YA