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Accessing Websphere 7 MBeans using Sun JConsole


How do I access Websphere 7 MBeans using Sun's JConsole?


Solution

  • Required libraries in bootclasspath (from Websphere 7):

    ibmorbapi.jar
    ibmorb.jar
    ibmcfw.jar
    

    Required libraries in classpath:

    com.ibm.ws.admin.client_7.0.0.jar (from Websphere 7)
    tools.jar (Sun)
    jconsole.jar (Sun)
    

    Below is the script that ties everything together. Update first 4 lines according to your environment (On Linux/Unix - replace environment variables %<name>% to $<name>)

    set JAVA_HOME=C:\tools\jdk1.6.0_19
    set WS7_HOME=C:/tools/WebSphere/AppServer
    set WS_HOST=127.0.0.1
    set WS_PORT=2809
    
    set BOOTPATH=%WS7_HOME%/java/jre/lib/ibmorbapi.jar;%WS7_HOME%/java/jre/lib/ibmorb.jar;%WS7_HOME%/java/jre/lib/ibmcfw.jar
    set CLASSPATH=%WS7_HOME%/runtimes/com.ibm.ws.admin.client_7.0.0.jar;%JAVA_HOME%\lib\tools.jar;%JAVA_HOME%\lib\jconsole.jar
    
    %JAVA_HOME%\bin\jconsole -J-Xbootclasspath/p:%BOOTPATH% -J-Djava.class.path=%CLASSPATH% service:jmx:iiop://%WS_HOST%:%WS_PORT%/jndi/JMXConnector
    

    And that should do it! I would like to thank Alan Chan for his response on this posting about Websphere 6.1 that helped with this.