I need to access the jmx-console but need to do it programatically

Environment

• JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP)
  • 4.x
  • 5.x

Issue

• As a workaround for Tabs in JConsole are greyed out and inaccessible accessing the jmx-console is one of the suggested workaround. However I need a  programatic example of how to do the MBean initialization instead.

Resolution

The following is an example of how you can make jmx invocation programatically

import org.jboss.jmx.adaptor.rmi.RMIAdaptor;
import javax.naming.Context;
import javax.naming.InitialContext;
import javax.management.*;

try{
        Properties env = new Properties();
        env.put(Context.INITIAL_CONTEXT_FACTORY, "org.jboss.security.jndi.JndiLoginInitialContextFactory");
        env.put(Context.SECURITY_PRINCIPAL, "admin");
        env.put(Context.SECURITY_CREDENTIALS, "admin");
        Context ctx = new InitialContext(env);
        MBeanServerConnection server = (MBeanServerConnection) ctx.lookup("jmx/invoker/RMIAdaptor");

        ObjectName name = new ObjectName("jboss:service=JNDIView");
        MBeanInfo  info = server.getMBeanInfo(name);
        System.out.println("JNDIView Class: " + info.getClassName());

       Object result = server.invoke(name,"list", new Object[] {Boolean.TRUE}, new String[] {"boolean"}); 
       System.out.println("Invoking : "+result.toString());

 }catch(Exception ex){
   ex.printStackTrace();
}

• Copy the above into a file with a .bsh extension and deploy to $JBOSS_HOME/server/$PROFILE/deploy directory. Alternatively you can adapt as you see fit
• The principal and credentials listed above are the ones configured in conf/props/jmx-console-users.properties (used in the jmx-console security domain of conf/login-config.xml).

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