How to monitor logging and system shutdown notifications ? (previously done in 4x and 5x via JMX)

[ejroberts]

Under JBoss AS 5.1.0.GA it was possible to make use of the JMX Log Appender (org.jboss.monitor.services.JMXNotificationAppender) and

subsequently the JBoss JMX Notifications/Alarms/Alerts/etc (org.jboss.monitor.*), in order to handle warnings, errors and shutdown; i.e. selectively

forward the information to users via email, snmp, rss, etc.

Are the same JMX Notifications available in AS 7.1 ? If not, what is/are the alternatives. For instance, does AS 7.1 utilize OSGI Events ?

[dimitris]

AFAIK, none of this stuff is ported over to AS7.

[ndipiazza]

Have you found any suitable work-arounds?

[ejroberts]

Hi Nicholas

I was doing an initial investigation of the new AS back then. We have quite a lot of apps and services going into JBoss 5.1.0 at the moment, and only now actually migrating that to 7.

This aspect will no doubt be looked at proper, but my own personal feeling is that we would try to port the Appender code ourselves and not necessarily have it triggering JMX events, but rather direct to the filtering and forwarding logic.

We used the JBoss Shutdown notifications to pre-shutdown some service elements. With migrating from MBeans to OSGI Services, it could transpire that when that code migrates, the OSGI stop life cycle processing will give sufficient time to achieve that without having any other hooks into the container.

Sorry that sounds vague. It's all I know at this time.

Ed