how to run jmxtrans on Windows servers

[BOSS Advisor]

Hello, there.

I need to monitor Tomcat instances running on Windows servers and have
the data sent to Ganglia.
I haven't seen any instructions for Windows servers.

If anyone has JMXTrans run with a Java Wrapper Service properly,
please share your configuration.

Please advise.

Thanks a lot.

Adam

[Jon Stevens]

Can you just monitor the instances remotely? ie: setup a unix box/vm somewhere (or run it from your Ganglia server) and point that remotely at your Tomcat instances running on windows. You may also find someone willing to do the work to write the wrappers to start up jmxtrans...

thanks,

jon

[BOSS Advisor]

Hello, Jon.
Thank you for pointing out that I can run jmxtrans remotely.

Somehow I misunderstood the overall architecture of jmxtrans.
I thought jmxstrans needs to run locally on each JVM instance to pull
data.
I might not need the JWS configuration when I can run jmxtrans on a
Linux box.

Adam

On Mar 14, 11:25 am, Jon Stevens <latch...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Can you just monitor the instances remotely? ie: setup a unix box/vm
> somewhere (or run it from your Ganglia server) and point that remotely at
> your Tomcat instances running on windows. You may also find someone willing
> to do the work to write the wrappers to start up jmxtrans...
>
> thanks,
>
> jon
>

[Jon Stevens]

Yea, I tried to make that clear in this image in the introduction: 

https://github.com/lookfirst/jmxtrans/wiki

No worries, I don't read the documentation either. ;-)

jon

[jon silver]

just for the next person, who runs into this:

Its java, so run it from a windows command line:

      java -Djmxtrans.log.level=10 -jar jmxtrans-all.jar -e -f HelloWorld.json -s 30

jon