JMX connection to tomcat on VirtualBox

Question

I have enabled JMX on my tomcat server with

-Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote=true -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.authenticate=false -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.ssl=false -Djava.rmi.server.hostname=localhost and I have a spring app that exposes JMX beans with a JmxRemoteLifecycleListener bean:

<Listener className="org.apache.catalina.mbeans.JmxRemoteLifecycleListener" rmiRegistryPortPlatform="10000" rmiServerPortPlatform="10001" />

When I run this tomcat instance on virtualbox (using vagrant) I forward ports 10000 and 10001, but when I try to connect to the JMX service (tried with VisualVM and JRockit Mission Control), I am unable to connect. Is there special configuration that needs to be done to connect since it is running on VirtualBox?

Answer 1

You need to do the Port forwarding with IPTABLES. Just check whether port is enabled in Iptables.