JBoss 7.1.1 JVM monitoring using SNMP and PRTG

Question

Recently I had given task in my company to monitor JVM of JBoss application server 7.1.1 using PRTG on Windows plateform. After searching I came to know to monitor using PRTG snmp enabling is required. JVM starts and listen on specified port and PRTG communicates using snmp to get the jvm information like heap , non heap , thread etc information.

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Answer 1

To achieve this, I followed these steps:

Configured Jboss to start with snmp agent enabled. Added following lines in standalone.conf.bat

set "JAVA_OPTS=%JAVA_OPTS% -Dcom.sun.management.snmp.port=1161 -Dcom.sun.management.snmp.interface=0.0.0.0 -Dcom.sun.management.snmp.acl=false"

That was giving me error of LogManager on start up.To resolve this I have added following lines in the same file.

set "JAVA_OPTS=%JAVA_OPTS% -Djboss.modules.system.pkgs=org.jboss.byteman,org.jboss.logmanager -Djava.util.logging.manager=org.jboss.logmanager.LogManager -Xbootclasspath/p:%JBOSS_HOME%\jboss-logmanager-1.2.2.GA.jar;%JBOSS_HOME%\jboss-logmanager-log4j-1.0.0.GA.jar;%JBOSS_HOME%\log4j-1.2.16.jar"

That solved my problem and the server started successfully.

For testing connection I have used following command.

snmpwalk -v2c -c public 127.0.0.1:1161 SNMPv2-SMI::enterprises.42.2.145.3.163.1.1.4

PRTG configuration was done by system administrator. :-)