>> Am 09.05.2011 um 22:50 schrieb Ian Springer:
>>>>                  pluginConfiguration.put(new PropertySimple(JMXDiscoveryComponent.CONNECTION_TYPE,
>>>>                      LocalVMTypeDescriptor.class.getName()));
>>> I thought the LocalVMTypeDescriptor conn type was for when the managed
>>> JMX server was inside the same process as the RHQ plugin container, at
>> It works for the Hadoop plugin, where all the hadoop processes are outside the VM.
>>
>>

>I checked the EMS source code and indeed it using the Java Attach API to
discover all VMs on the local machine. I always assumed the "Local" in
the connection type classname meant "local to the JVM", but apparently
it actually means "local to the machine". For anyone else that's curious
what EMS does under the covers to discover the JVMs, the meat of the
code is in this class:

Entered a Bug report, 703557, and attached the plugin we wrote.  Compare that to what you are doing here, probably the same general approach.  Also added a request for a Tomcat Datasource support in the tomcat plugin, with an attached plugin that does that....bug 703562

David Webster
Union Pacific Railroad
Lead Architect-Web Infrastructure
Systems Engineering
Phone: (402) 544-1094 | Email: dawebster@up.com