Profiling a remote host using VisualVM

visualvm.md

Remote VisualVM

Start RMI registry

$ rmiregistry -J-Djava.rmi.server.codebase=file:$JAVA_HOME/lib/tools.jar

Create Policy file for jstatd

• Create a file named jstatd.all.policy

• With the following contents:

  grant codebase "file:${java.home}/../lib/tools.jar" { permission java.security.AllPermission; };
  

Start jstatd

$ jstatd -J-Djava.security.policy=/home/arun/jstatd.all.policy &

Launch VisualVM on the remote host

$ jvisualvm

After VisualVM is launched, select "Remote" > "Add Remote Host.." and enter the hostname where jstatd is running.