Foglight for JMX 5.9.8

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Activate and Deactivate JMX Agents Start and Stop Data Collection Reconnect to an MBean Server Review JMX Agent Connection Logs Review JMX Agent Logs Edit JMX Agent Connection Settings Specify JMX Agent Credential Use Edit a JMX Agent's Server Model Switch a JMX Agent Server Model Define Server Model Instance Overrides for a JMX Agent Change a JMX Agent's Server Group Delete a JMX Agent Review JMX Agent Properties

Managing MBean Server Models

Using the JMX Administration Dashboard Server Model Templates Creating MBean Server Models

Adding a Root Type to an MBean Server Model Editing Server Model Properties Exporting a Server Model Importing a Server Model Deleting Server Models

Editing MBean Server Models

Specifying Server Model Monitored Instances Selecting MBean Attributes for Collection Exposing MBean Relationships Changing the Display Name of an MBean Type Removing an MBean Type

Setting Collection Frequency

Monitoring and Investigating JMX Data

Viewing MBean Data in the JMX Explorer Dashboard

Viewing Monitored MBeans Explorer MBean View Selecting an MBean Server to Review

Managing Key Metrics

Defining Key Metrics Changing Metric Display Preferences Changing Metric Display Order

Monitoring the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) Reducing the Amount of Data Collected

Foglight for JMX System Requirements

This Managing JMX Systems: User Guide provides instructions, and conceptual information about how to collect and display JMX metrics and MBean data from JMX-enabled systems in Foglight for JMX.

This guide is recommended for users who need to create and manage JMX agents or JMX monitoring server models. It provides administration and configuration information for JMX agents.

This chapter outlines the system requirements and other guidelines for Foglight for JMX, including the minimum OS maintenance patches required to run Java applications, and the Foglight for JMX Management Server version requirements.

Foglight for JMX Version Requirements

Table 1. Foglight for JMX version requirements
Foglight for JMX Version	Foglight Management Server Version	Foglight Agent Manager Version
5.9.8	5.6.7 or later	5.6.2.2 or later

Operating System Patch Requirements

To ensure the stable performance of Foglight for JMX and its agent, your operating system must have the minimum maintenance patches required to run Java applications. Patch requirements are available at the following URLs:

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AIX: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/jdk/aix/service.html

AIX 5L 5.3 require patches to run JDK 1.4.2, 1.5, and 1.6 VMs; see the URL listed above for the latest patch requirements.

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HP-UX: http://www.hp.com/go/patchmgmt-docs

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Linux: Check for known problems in the release notes and check that the packages they mention are up to date.

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Solaris: Log on to the My Oracle Support site (http://support.oracle.com) and open the Patch & Update tab.

Supported JDKs for JMX Monitoring

This section outlines the supported operating systems and JDKs.


	IMPORTANT: Local Process Discovery is supported only for Java processes running in Oracle JDK 1.6 or JRockit JDK 1.6. Earlier versions of the JDK and JDKs from other vendors are incompatible.

HP-UX JDK

Foglight for JMX supports the following operating systems with HP JDKs.

Table 2. HP-UX JDK
JDK	Operating System	Architecture
1.5, 1.6	HP-UX 11i v1	parisc
	HP-UX 11i v2	parisc, ia64
	HP-UX 11i v3	ia64

IBM JDK

Foglight for JMX supports the following operating systems with IBM JDKs.

Table 3. IBM JDK
JDK	Operating System	Architecture
1.5, 1.6	IBM AIX 5.3¹, 6.1, 7.1	powerpc
	Novell SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9, 10, 11	ia32, x86_64
	Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS/ES/WS 4, 5, 6	ia32, x86_64
	Oracle Solaris 9², 10	sparc
	Oracle Solaris 10	x86_64
	Windows XP SP1+, Server 2003, Server 2008	ia32, x86_64
	Windows Server 2008 R2	x86_64