Remote monitoring and management with JMX

You can monitor Spotfire Statistics Services using TIBCO Hawk or any other Java Management Extensions (JMX) -compliant monitoring tool, like JConsole, which is a part of the Java SDK.

When you install Spotfire Statistics Services, Remote Monitoring and Management is enabled by default. During installation, you are prompted for a required user name (by default, admin) and password. These credentials are specific to this standalone server installation or to the entire cluster. We recommend against using your login/domain credentials.

You must access the JMX server from your chosen monitoring tool using the following URL:

service:jmx:rmi:///jndi/rmi://[SERVER_NAME]:[JMX_PORT]/jmxrmi

Using remote management and monitoring through JMX, you can perform the following tasks:

• Restart Manager or Worker nodes.
• View and edit the server configuration.
• Perform job and package management.
• Manage nodes in a cluster.

After installation, you can use the spserver.properties settings to perform the following tasks:

• Change JMX options to enable or disable remote monitoring and management.
• Change the JMX username or password.
• Change the JMX port number.

For more information on additional configuration options for Remote Management and Monitoring via JMX, see http://java.sun.com/javase/7/docs/technotes/guides/management/agent.html.

• Enabling or disabling remote monitoring and management with JMX
  Use the techniques described in this topic to manage remote monitoring with JMX in a Spotfire Statistics Services installation.
• Changing the username or password for remote monitoring and management
  You can change the JMX username or password by changing a Spotfire Statistics Services property.
• Modifying the JMX port number
  You can change the JMX port number by changing a TIBCO Spotfire® Statistics Services property.