Invoking a JConsole connection is pretty simple. You can connect to a local or remote Java process. For local, just select the corresponding Process Identifier (PID). To connect to a remote process, you can either use the hostname/IP and port combination, or the JMX service that runs Cassandra without JMX authentication and SSL:
Figure 7.1: JConsole connection
In certain implementations, a node would have both internal and external IPs. These would be set in the Cassandra.yaml config, with the listen_address and rpc_address parameters set to internal IPs, and the broadcast_address and broadcast_rpc_address parameters ...
