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Jmx4Perl
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INTRODUCTION
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Jmx4Perl provides an alternate way for accessing Java JEE Server
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management interfaces which are based on JMX (Java Management
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Extensions). It is an agent based approach, where a small Java
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Webapplication deployed on the application server provides an
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HTTP/JSON based access to JMX MBeans registered within the
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application server.
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HOW IT WORKS
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For the agent mode a small Java Agent WAR (web archive) needs to be
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deployed on the Java application server. This agent is provided by
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the Jolokia project (www.jolokia.org). There is no need to add any
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startup parameters to the application server and to open any
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additional ports. All communication takes places via HTTP where JSON
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objects are exchanged. Additionally, the agent benefits from the
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security infrastructure in place which every application server
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provides for web application. More information about the agent can
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be found at http://www.jolokia.org
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The Perl module JMX::Jmx4Perl accesses the deployed agent servlet
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and transform the request's results from JSON into a simple Perl
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object.
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TOOLS
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This distribution comes with several tools, which uses the
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JMX::Jmx4Perl for accessing the server:
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jmx4perl - Command line tool for gathering JMX information
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check_jmx4perl - Full featured Nagios Plugin
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j4psh - Interactive, readline based JMX shell with context
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sensitive command completion
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jolokia - Utility for downloading and managing Jolokia
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agents.
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INSTALLATION
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The Perl part installs as any other module via Module::Build, which
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you need to have installed. Using
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perl Build.PL
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./Build installdeps # If there are dependencies missing and you
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# have Module::Build >= 0.36 installed.
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./Build
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./Build test
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./Build install
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will install the modules. It is highly recommended to install the
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recommended dependent modules, too to get the full jmx4perl
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power. The set of 'required' modules is kept small and guarantees
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only that 'jmx4perl' and the modules around JMX::Jmx4Perl are
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working properly. The other tools (check_jmx4perl, j4psh and
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jolokia) require the recommended modules for proper working. Look
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into Build.PL for which tool requires which module.
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In order to download the Jolokia WAR agent into the local directory
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as jolokia.war, use the following command
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jolokia
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This agent "jolokia.war" needs to be deployed on the JEE Server to
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monitor. Please consult http://www.jolokia.org/agent.html for more
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information how to install the agent. E.g. for Tomcat this war file
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needs to be copied into the webapps directory.
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To test it, you can use 'jmx4perl' with the URL of the deployed
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agent:
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jmx4perl http://<jeeserver>:<port>/jolokia
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Consult 'man jmx4perl' for more information about this command
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utility.
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RESOURCES
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* Jmx4perl's source is hosted on github.com. You can clone the
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repository with git://github.com/rhuss/jmx4perl.git as URL
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* Interesting articles around Jmx4Perl, JMX and Nagios can be found
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at http://labs.consol.de Checkout the various post categories for
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selecting a specific topic.
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* www.jmx4perl.org is the canonical entry point for jmx4perl related
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information.
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NOTE
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For you convenience, the latest Module::Build is included in this
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distribution, so there is no need of a locally install Module::Build
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for installing this suite. More information about Module::Build can
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be found http://search.cpan.org/~dagolden/Module-Build/
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LICENSE
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Copyright (C) 2009-2011 Roland Huss (roland@cpan.org)
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Jmx4perl is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it
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under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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the Free Software Foundation, either version 2 of the License, or
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(at your option) any later version.
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jmx4perl is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
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WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
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General Public License for more details.
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You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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along with jmx4perl. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
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A commercial license is available as well. You can either apply the
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GPL or obtain a commercial license for closed source
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development. Please contact roland@cpan.org for further information.
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PROFESSIONAL SERVICES
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Just in case you need professional support for this module (or
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Nagios, JMX or JEE in general), you might want to have a look at
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http://www.consol.com/nagios-monitoring . Contact
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roland.huss@consol.de for further information (or use the contact
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form at http://www.consol.com/contact/ )
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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Big thanks go to ...
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* Gerhard Lausser, who initially pushed me to think harder
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about a better way for monitoring JEE Servers with Nagios.
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* Danijel Tasov for patching, patching, patching and keeping
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an eye on contemporary perl styling.
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* All bug reporters and blog commenters for helping me to
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increase the overall quality (and for letting me know that
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this is not software for the ivory tower)
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BUGS
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Please report any bugs and/or feature requests at
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http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Report.html?Queue=jmx4perl
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AUTHOR
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roland@cpan.org
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