JMX access to vFabric SQLFire

With the release of vFabric SQLFire 11 we can now start a JMX manager with the locator itself. To do that we add the following to the sqlfire.properties file of the locator itself.

jmx-manager=true
jmx-manager-start=true
jmx-manager-ssl=false
jmx-manager-http-port=8083

Then with the locator started we can verify we have it running on the default port of 1099 as shown below.

[Thu May 02 09:45:49 papicella@:~/sqlfire/vFabric_SQLFire_11_b40332/pasdemos/agent-test/locator ] $ netstat -an | grep 1099
tcp4       0      0  127.0.0.1.1099         127.0.0.1.64803        ESTABLISHED
tcp4       0      0  127.0.0.1.1099         127.0.0.1.64801        ESTABLISHED
tcp4       0      0  127.0.0.1.64801        127.0.0.1.1099         ESTABLISHED
tcp4       0      0  127.0.0.1.64803        127.0.0.1.1099         ESTABLISHED
tcp4       0      0  127.0.0.1.1099         127.0.0.1.64799        ESTABLISHED
tcp4       0      0  127.0.0.1.64799        127.0.0.1.1099         ESTABLISHED
tcp46      0      0  *.1099                 *.*                    LISTEN    

Finally start jconsole and connect using a service URL as follows

Format:

service:jmx:rmi://{hotname}/jndi/rmi://{hostname}:1099/jmxrmi

Example:

service:jmx:rmi://Pas-Apicellas-MacBook-Pro.local/jndi/rmi://Pas-Apicellas-MacBook-Pro.local:1099/jmxrmi

Once connected you can browse the MBean as shown in the image below.

More Information

http://pubs.vmware.com/vfabric53/index.jsp?topic=/com.vmware.vfabric.sqlfire.1.1/manage_guide/jmx/jmx_intro.html