Remote JMX connection fails to retrieve RMIServer stub
Issue
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We've enabled JMX with options like the following:
-Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.port= -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.authenticate=false -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.ssl=false -Djava.rmi.server.hostname=
But remote clients (jconsole and jvisualvm) fail to connect with exceptions like the following:
INFO [com.sun.tools.visualvm.jmx.impl.JmxModelImpl]: connect(service:jmx:rmi:///jndi/rmi://localhost:1650/jmxrmi) java.io.EOFException: SSL peer shut down incorrectly at sun.security.ssl.InputRecord.read(InputRecord.java:482) at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.readRecord(SSLSocketImpl.java:927) Caused: javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException: Remote host closed connection during handshake at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.readRecord(SSLSocketImpl.java:946) at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.performInitialHandshake(SSLSocketImpl.java:1312) at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.writeRecord(SSLSocketImpl.java:702) at sun.security.ssl.AppOutputStream.write(AppOutputStream.java:122) at java.io.BufferedOutputStream.flushBuffer(BufferedOutputStream.java:82) at java.io.BufferedOutputStream.flush(BufferedOutputStream.java:140) at java.io.DataOutputStream.flush(DataOutputStream.java:123) at sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPChannel.createConnection(TCPChannel.java:229) Caused: java.rmi.ConnectIOException: error during JRMP connection establishment; nested exception is: javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException: Remote host closed connection during handshake at sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPChannel.createConnection(TCPChannel.java:304) at sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPChannel.newConnection(TCPChannel.java:202) at sun.rmi.server.UnicastRef.newCall(UnicastRef.java:341) at sun.rmi.registry.RegistryImpl_Stub.lookup(Unknown Source) at com.sun.jndi.rmi.registry.RegistryContext.lookup(RegistryContext.java:114) Caused: javax.naming.CommunicationException [Root exception is java.rmi.ConnectIOException: error during JRMP connection establishment; nested exception is: javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException: Remote host closed connection during handshake] at com.sun.jndi.rmi.registry.RegistryContext.lookup(RegistryContext.java:118) at com.sun.jndi.toolkit.url.GenericURLContext.lookup(GenericURLContext.java:203) at javax.naming.InitialContext.lookup(InitialContext.java:411) at javax.management.remote.rmi.RMIConnector.findRMIServerJNDI(RMIConnector.java:1936) at javax.management.remote.rmi.RMIConnector.findRMIServer(RMIConnector.java:1903) at javax.management.remote.rmi.RMIConnector.connect(RMIConnector.java:286) Caused: java.io.IOException: Failed to retrieve RMIServer stub at javax.management.remote.rmi.RMIConnector.connect(RMIConnector.java:369) at com.sun.tools.visualvm.jmx.impl.JmxModelImpl$ProxyClient.tryConnect(JmxModelImpl.java:573) [catch] at com.sun.tools.visualvm.jmx.impl.JmxModelImpl$ProxyClient.connect(JmxModelImpl.java:507) at com.sun.tools.visualvm.jmx.impl.JmxModelImpl.connect(JmxModelImpl.java:235) at com.sun.tools.visualvm.jmx.impl.JmxModelImpl.<init>(JmxModelImpl.java:224) at com.sun.tools.visualvm.jmx.impl.JmxModelProvider.createModelFor(JmxModelProvider.java:60) at com.sun.tools.visualvm.jmx.impl.JmxModelProvider.createModelFor(JmxModelProvider.java:41) at com.sun.tools.visualvm.core.model.ModelFactory.getModel(ModelFactory.java:111) at com.sun.tools.visualvm.tools.jmx.JmxModelFactory.getJmxModelFor(JmxModelFactory.java:69) at com.sun.tools.visualvm.jmx.impl.JmxApplicationProvider.addJmxApplication(JmxApplicationProvider.java:301) at com.sun.tools.visualvm.jmx.impl.JmxApplicationProvider.createJmxApplication(JmxApplicationProvider.java:206) at com.sun.tools.visualvm.jmx.JmxApplicationsSupport.createJmxApplicationImpl(JmxApplicationsSupport.java:319) at com.sun.tools.visualvm.jmx.JmxApplicationsSupport.createJmxApplicationInteractive(JmxApplicationsSupport.java:296) at com.sun.tools.visualvm.jmx.impl.AddJMXConnectionAction$1.run(AddJMXConnectionAction.java:80) at org.openide.util.RequestProcessor$Task.run(RequestProcessor.java:1423) at org.openide.util.RequestProcessor$Processor.run(RequestProcessor.java:2033)
Why is it trying to use SSL when this is disabled?
Environment
- Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP)
- Red Hat JBoss Web Server (JWS)
- Tomcat
- Java
- JMX
- RMI
- jconsole
- jvisualvm
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