How to have JMX bind to a specific interface?

Question

I am currently starting my Java VM with the com.sun.management.jmxremote.* properties so that I can connect to it via JConsole for management and monitoring. Unfortunately, it listens on all interfaces (IP addresses) on the machine.

In our environment, there are often cases where there is more than one Java VM running on a machine at the same time. While it's possible to tell JMX to listen on different TCP ports (using com.sun.management.jmxremote.port), it would be nice to instead have JMX use the standard JMX port and just bind to a specific IP address (rather than all of them).

This would make it much easier to figure out which VM we're connecting to via JConsole (since each VM effectively "owns" its own IP address). Has anyone figured out how to make JMX listen on a single IP address or hostname?

Answer 1

Googling a bit brings your answer

Answer 2

Fernando already provided a link to my blog post :) ..it's not trivial. You have to provide your own RMIServerSocketFactoryImpl that creates sockets on the wanted address.

If internal/external interfaces are the problem and you have local access setting up a local firewall might be easier.