Enable VisualVM for remote monitoring of Java

Step 1: get jstatd running.

If jstatd is not running,  create a file called jstatd.all.policy with the following contents:

grant codebase "file:${java.home}/../lib/tools.jar" { permission java.security.AllPermission;};

Start jstatd as follows:

nohup jstatd -J-Djava.security.policy=/path/to/your/jstatd.all.policy &

Step 2: Start Remote jvisualvm

 

/usr/java/jdk1.7.0_25/bin/jvisualvm

 

Screenshot-Java VisualVM

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