Charles,

Alright - I did try this before but I think I didn't realize that I either have to add jboss to the inventory manually because I have already detected this server - or it just needs to be added manually - either way I need to add it.

The plugin does now show up in the installed plugins page for JON.

I've gone down to the bottom of the inventory tab under the desired server, selected JBoss AS Server from the drop down (I am running jboss eap 4.3)

Now no matter what combination I use of 127.0.0.1, my internal nat ip address and my local nat dns name (in the configuration), I continue to get the same error message.

for the credentials - I'm using admin/admin (as I have specified in: C:\jboss-as\server\production\conf\props\jmx-console-users.properties and jmx-console-roles.properties)

jboss home path: C:\jboss-as
configuration path: C:\jboss-as\server\production

I've also tried running "discovery -f" from the agent console, as well as the manual auto-discovery from the JON interface - but JBoss still does not show up..

Also - I read int he jopr docs (http://www.jopr.org/confluence/display/JOPR2/JBossAS+Server) that your jboss instance needs to be started with:

./run.bat -Djboss.bind.address=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx -Djava.rmi.server.hostname=name.domain.tld

is this correct? Could this be causing problems?

Here is my error:

Unable to connect to the Agent. Cause: javax.ejb.EJBException:java.lang.RuntimeException: Error adding JBossAS Server resource to inventory as a child of the resource with id 500054 - cause: Server specified unknown Resource type: ResourceType[id=0, category=null, name=JBossAS Server, plugin=JBossAS] -> java.lang.RuntimeException:Error adding JBossAS Server resource to inventory as a child of the resource with id 500054 - cause: Server specified unknown Resource type: ResourceType[id=0, category=null, name=JBossAS Server, plugin=JBossAS] -> java.lang.IllegalStateException:Server specified unknown Resource type: ResourceType[id=0, category=null, name=JBossAS Server, plugin=JBossAS]

Hrm... does this plugin require snmp... I did some slimming and may have removed it..

Alright - I tried the full jboss eap setup and that did not work either, I returned to my custom configuration and tried using my computer name "keithwork" instead of an ip address what I thought was my domain name within my offices network.

This time I got a message stating that jboss was already in the invenstory:

A JBossAS Server with the specified connection properties was already in inventory.
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But I don't see it in the list... (How can I add it to the list?)

The screen I get also states that: "This resource does not currently have any child resources." So I try to deploy my ear using the combo box that allows you to create a new EAR. Upon uploading my ear from the next screen I get the message: "This resource does not currently have any child resources." and generates a stack trace. (I can recreate if this needs to be reported.) I tried deploying as zipped and unzipped.

I'm looking at this tool to determine if it would be useful to monitor a group of about 30+ individual instances of JBoss. I'm starting to wonder if it may be more trouble than it's really worth.. Is there something else I'm missing here?

Alright - not only did I hose up my last post pretty well but now JBoss EAP magically showed up in the discovery queue. I did go look at it a few times before.

Can anyone tell me why?
Does it show up here after you try to add it as a resource?
Does it show up at some point in time after you run "discovery" on the agent on the local machine?
Does it show up after it has coffee in the morning?

For anyone else reading this thread - MAKE SURE YOU SET YOUR JMX CREDENTIALS or everything seems to be busted.

I found that a lot of guess and check is involved in making JON work properly.

Thank you jayshaughnessy and ips! I appreciate the clarification. I apologize for the rant.. I thought I followed the instructions where I could but maybe something was left out or I wasn't patient enough..

I like the features that are available though.. thanks :)

I did have my jmx-console-users.properties setup with the username and password and it appears that it was not detected/imported (maybe the agent found it but JON wasn't aware of it?).


I haven't posted a "lot" on these forums but I have found the JBoss Operations Network Users forum to be fairly responsive - which is very nice.. thanks again.

-Keith