Java Mission Control: Flight Recorder throws: javax.naming.ServiceUnavailableException

Question

I am trying to profile a Java Spring application with the Oracle Java Mission control. I have the JVM Connection configured as: localhost:7091 and I started the application with java -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.rmi.port=7091 -jar app.jar .

When I attempt to start the flight recorder I get an error message.

Failed to retrieve RMIServer stub: javax.naming.ServiceUnavailableException [Root exception is java.rmi.ConnectException: Connection refused to host: localhost; nested exception is: 
    java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused: connect]
Could not connect to a JVM at service:jmx:rmi:///jndi/rmi://localhost:7091/jmxrmi. Make sure one is running and that you are using the correct protocol in the Service URL.

Does anyone know what could be the reason for that error?

Answer 1

You could try to use auto discovery. Then the connection will show up automatically in JMC

-Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.autodiscovery=true

You can also name the connection so you can identify it easily.

-Dcom.sun.management.jdp.name=App

and disable security

-Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.authenticate=false

-Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.ssl=false

Answer 2

I had this issue. I had installed JDK 10 on Windows Server 2016. With JMC and the JVM I wished to monitor on the same server.

When going live, we switched the IP from a temporary IP to a live IP. However, JMC resolved localhost to the original IP. Also when specifying the server's current IP, JMC resolved it to the original IP.

Adding -Djava.rmi.server.hostname=localhost to the Java process I wanted to monitor, resolved the issue.

However, I will would still be interested to know why JMC (or RMI) still resolves incorrectly.