JMX Browsing of remote instances and security

[kimptoc]

Hi,

We are looking to setup several machines running JBoss. We want to manage these from a central location, but to keep the installs small, there would be no servlet/EJB container. Just the jmx-rmi adaptor locally seems like the answer.

The central locaton(s) can then connect to each instance remotely.

It seems the jmx browser only supports browsing locally - is there a way to browse/manage remote instances?

A related issue then is securing the jmx-rmi adaptor - does it support this currently? My thoughts would be to do something like this DDJ article:

http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=1679/ddj0211c/

Thanks for any thoughts.

[adrian.brock]

The jmx invoker-adapter uses the JRMP
invoker and a smart client container.

This can be configured to use security,
i.e. pass the user/password from the client
and intercept the invocation to authenticate/
authorise the user/password.
I think there is a noddy example in the admin
docs.

Regards,
Adrian