What Is JMX and Why Would You Want It?

JMX provides both the architecture and the services needed to actively administer, monitor, and manage resources. The WebLogic 8.1 distribution supports JMX version 1.0. Although it's a relatively new API, JMX is quite robust and through the use of JMX management components can be used to monitor and manage most any resource. JMX can even map to any existing management protocol, such as SNMP or HTTP.

What JMX Can Do for You

JMX allows for the administration of all resources in your environment. This is basically done by encapsulating a component in a JMX wrapper object and exposing its attributes and/or methods in a JMX server environment.

JMX provides administration services for both hardware and software ...

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