Chapter 2. Setting up a Custom JVM for Discovery

The Generic JMX Plug-in detects Java processes. This is a very simple plug-in; aside from the ability to exclude some types of JVMs, the plug-in detects any properly-configured Java process and imports it is as a JMX server. For a generic JMX server, all of its subsystems — logging, threads, memory, and others — are also imported as children of the JMX server.

All of this background information is covered in the JMX resource documentation in the Resource Reference: Monitoring, Operation, and Configuration Options. Writing a custom plugin is covered in Writing Custom Plug-ins.

A JVM has to be configured in a certain way for JBoss ON to be able to discover it and to add it to the inventory.