VisualVM: Is it possible to profile an application running on a remote server that only has JRE(no JDK)

Question

I have two computers on a network(visible to each other) and I run JVisualVM on one of the computers. I wish to monitor a java application running on the other computer. Is it possible?

I tried adding a remote server and got the screen as below:

But after this what steps are to be followed to profile, lets say, com.myapp.MyApp running on the other computer?

PS The remote computer does not have a JDK installed(This is a constraint). It just has a JRE.

Answer 1

It's possible to do monitoring on remote host. JRE is enough! But it is not possible to do profiling on remote host as stated here:

https://visualvm.java.net/applications_remote.html

The number/deep of processes which are shown by VisualVM for profiling and Sampler (local or remote) are different. The prior one hat much more details!