Introduction

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Jmxterm is an open source, command line based interactive JMX client written in Java. It lets users access a Java MBean server from a command line console without a graphical environment. In other words, it's a command line alternative to jconsole. JMXTerm relies on the jconsole library at runtime.

JMXTerm can also be embedded in non-Java programming languages such as Perl, Shell, and Python, allowing these languages to access a Java MBean server programmatically.

Please feel free to file issues on GitHub if you have questions.

References

• Maven generated reports
• Javadoc

Download

Find the latest release on the right side of the GitHub page.

The uberjar file is an executable file. Run it with:

java -jar jmxterm-1.0.4-uber.jar

1-minute tutorial

The downloaded UBER jar runs out of the box with java -jar. There are no dependencies to install, and no configuration, file structure, permission, or log directory to set up.

Just download and run java -jar jmxterm-<VERSION>-uber.jar without any options. That opens an interactive command line console where commands are self-explained.

jiaqi@happycow:~$ java -jar jmxterm-1.0.4-uber.jar

Welcome to JMX terminal. Type "help" for available commands.

?$

Once you are in the console, the help command shows all available commands. Asking for help on a specific command (for example, help get), or using the -h option, shows usage for that command. For example:

> help get
usage: get [-b <val>] [-d <val>] [-h] [-i] [-q] [-s]
Get value of MBean attribute(s)
-b,--bean <val>    MBean name where the attribute is. Optional if bean
                   has been set
-d,--domain <val>  Domain of bean, optional
-h,--help          Display usage
-i,--info          Show detail information of each attribute
-q,--quots         Quotation marks around value
-s,--simple        Print simple expression of value without full
                   expression
* stands for all attributes. e.g. get Attribute1 Attribute2 or get *

Jmxterm can do a lot more. Check out the user manual for more complicated usage.